Plan Your Cruise

Top 10 Tips to Plan Your First Cruise

By: Sherry Laskin · September 18, 2023

If you are about to plan your first cruise, here are my top suggestions from choosing the best cruise for you and your family, what to expect ...

By: Sherry Laskin · July 29, 2023

Here's a list of my best travel gifts for cruisers, whether first time cruisers or those with dozens of cruises under their ...

By: Sherry Laskin · July 29, 2023

Over my years of traveling solo, I've compiled a list of the best travel tips for women. When you travel solo, you quickly learn that no one has ...

By: Sherry Laskin · March 5, 2023

Whether your cruise line calls them daily service fees, cruise ship gratuities or crew appreciation, it's simply tipping on a cruise. Nearly ...

By: Sherry Laskin · December 8, 2022

It can be an easy decision to choose an inside, oceanview or balcony stateroom. To find the best stateroom location, however, can be a challenge ...

By: Sherry Laskin · November 7, 2022

After almost three years, I finally had the chance to return to Costa Maya in October 2022. Costa Maya has always been one of my favorite cruise ...

By: Sherry Laskin · August 25, 2022

It’s been decades and hundreds of cruises since I packed for my first cruise. Never one to leave anything behind, you’d think I packed for an ...

By: Sherry Laskin · August 19, 2022

I love a port day San Juan, especially to visit Old San Juan to be exact. Almost every cruise to the eastern Caribbean includes a stop in San ...

By: Sherry Laskin · August 18, 2022

For as long as I've been cruising (and that's a long time), I've never been charged a room service fee. Except of course, a couple of dollars to ...