Summary
STREAMERS whizzing from the decks, excited passengers clinking brimming champagne glasses, friends and family on the dock waving while a brass band played. This was the exuberant atmosphere of the typical 'sail away' when Douglas Ward wrote his first Berlitz guide to cruising 25 years ago.
But, with his silver-anniversary edition about to come out, he says: 'Nowadays you are more likely to be hassled by waiters to buy a "bon voyage" cocktail in a plastic cup, and streamers are banned everywhere but Japan by environmental protection laws.'See the full content of this document
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The Man Who Marks Cruise Ships
There have been enormous changes in cruising over the past 25 years and no one has noted them more closely than Ward. He has spent more than 5...
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