| MIAMI, July 15, 2002---Seabourn Cruise Line has announced a pact with
online travel booksellers Longitude to provide customized,
itinerary-specific lists of recommended books and maps for travelers
planning cruises aboard the ultra luxury Seabourn Pride, Spirit and
Legend. The books can be ordered online from links on www.seabourn.com
or by fax, email, toll-free telephone or by mail. |
| Wheelchair users planning cruises for wheelchair users. Accessible cruise
space available this summer - Alaska, etc. Contact;
pat@wheelchairtravel.com |
| The air carriers have paid next to nothing to travel agents for years...so I
let my TA do all my travel planning (cruises/tours/etc) except for one
thing. I take care of any air-only booking. Heck, shed get paid only a
couple of dollars on most any air package I make (theyre generally less
than $200). So shed be doing it as more of a courtesy than anything else. |
| I bought these from a travel agent for $45 total, I spent about a week going
thru and read up on about 10 different itineraries and or ship/port options and
narrowed my choices down planning a family reunion cruise with the help of these
guides and a few questions to these newsgroups, these guides answered 98% of my
questions though without having to deal directly with repeat calls to travel
agents....I had called around a bit but after about the 10th question I could
tell I was starting to wear on these agents patience levels, I wanted the info
but also wanted the answers without feeling like I was bugging my agent to
death. |
| Oh, every one with an engine has a range but it isnt a factor in planning
cruises for a real sailing vessel. Or a really long range motor vessel, for that
matter. Our modest trawler has about 1500 miles range which means we could only
go to New England and back without refueling.... not a factor in planning
cruises of less than a full season. |
