wezie Posted September 23, 2012 #1 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Hi. I was looking to subscribe to a good cruising magazine. Does anyone have any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrenalineRush Posted September 23, 2012 #2 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Many like Porthole magazine. http://www.porthole.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
092306 Posted September 23, 2012 #3 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Porthole and Cruise Travel are both good. Cruise Travel tends to have more articles and info about the industry overall, but Porthole usually does a nice feature in each issue on one particular ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CascaisCruiser Posted September 24, 2012 #4 Share Posted September 24, 2012 I'll second Cruise Travel. It's full of great and interesting information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lsbgvaguy Posted September 24, 2012 #5 Share Posted September 24, 2012 We get both Cruise Travel and Porthole and really like them both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
My4Grandsons Posted September 24, 2012 #6 Share Posted September 24, 2012 I too get both magazines. I have been reading Cruise Travel since its beginning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sail7seas Posted September 24, 2012 #7 Share Posted September 24, 2012 We got Cruise Travel for years and finally let our subscription run out. The magazine got thinner and there got so there were so many ads, there was hardly anything to read. It seemed they 'recycled' the same story topics again and again and I got bored with it. If folks are saying good things about it, maybe we'll give it another try. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik101 Posted September 24, 2012 #8 Share Posted September 24, 2012 We got Cruise Travel for years and finally let our subscription run out. The magazine got thinner and there got so there were so many ads, there was hardly anything to read. It seemed they 'recycled' the same story topics again and again and I got bored with it. If folks are saying good things about it, maybe we'll give it another try. :) I've read a couple of Porthole magazines and I've found more info on cruise critic than the magazine. You are right! There are a bunch of ads and even though CC has them, I find it easier to ignore the ads online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Keith1010 Posted September 24, 2012 #9 Share Posted September 24, 2012 I used to get each of the magazines that people mentioned. I cancelled both. I found their reviews to only highlight the positives and while I am one of the most positive people you will meet I didn't get much from the write ups. I truly believe you can get much more valuable information from Cruise Critic and from other sites on the internet. Now, a book I can recommend that to me is the encyclopedia of all cruise books is the annual book (2013 will be out soon) on Cruising and Cruise Ships written by Douglas Ward and published by Berlitz. I would put my money there and not on the magazines that have been mentioned. Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krazy Kruizers Posted September 24, 2012 #10 Share Posted September 24, 2012 We used to get Cruise Travel, Porthole and World Ocean & Cruise News. We have let all subscriptions go. Port hole had too many advertisements. Cruise Travel years ago was very thick -- lots of articles. Now I can read it in a couple of hours. World Ocean and Cruise News -- the material was already old by the time we got it. Lots more information here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWolver672 Posted September 24, 2012 #11 Share Posted September 24, 2012 I would definately stay away from Conde Nast. They don't even mention Carnival in their articles. Too snobbish. I like Budget Travel. It spotlights a different ship each time it comes out. There's plenty of pictures of the ship and even has a deck plan. Lots of nice articles about the ports of call. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bookish Angel Posted September 24, 2012 #12 Share Posted September 24, 2012 but Conde Nast Traveler is a good travel magazine that give lots of good destination info as I overwhelmingly choose new destinations over ship 99% of the time. Also, if you are cruisng for only part of your vacation, you will get good info about places cruise ships don't go. National Geographic is another magazine that highlights destinations. Once you have decided on a destination you can find out if a cruise can be part of the trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul929207 Posted September 24, 2012 #13 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Like many of the above, I used to take Cruise Travel, but dropped it. There was very little I cared about that was not on these boards months before it showed up in the magazine. I guess much of their problem is the frequency you get their info. It is published every other month. So some of the info is a minimum of 2 months old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sail7seas Posted September 24, 2012 #14 Share Posted September 24, 2012 I used to get each of the magazines that people mentioned. I cancelled both. I found their reviews to only highlight the positives and while I am one of the most positive people you will meet I didn't get much from the write ups. I truly believe you can get much more valuable information from Cruise Critic and from other sites on the internet. Now, a book I can recommend that to me is the encyclopedia of all cruise books is the annual book (2013 will be out soon) on Cruising and Cruise Ships written by Douglas Ward and published by Berlitz. I would put my money there and not on the magazines that have been mentioned. Keith The last few times I looked at Berlitz, I found some of the information was woefully out of date. Maybe I just happened upon the few things that weren't updated but it turned me off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Keith1010 Posted September 24, 2012 #15 Share Posted September 24, 2012 The last few times I looked at Berlitz, I found some of the information was woefully out of date. Maybe I just happened upon the few things that weren't updated but it turned me off. I've been using the books for well over 20 years and find them a great source of information. Sure the challenge is you don't update them the day you go to print so some of the narratives might not be 100% up to date but to me it is one source that you can quickly get a nice overview of just about every cruise ship. Nothing is perfect but I think they do a very nice job. Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shipgeeks Posted September 24, 2012 #16 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Power Ships, published by the Steamship Historical Society of America, is very good if you have an interest in the history of ships, as well as current worldwide cruiseship information. It is not intended as a resource for choosing a cruise, but is nonetheless, very informative and interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkacruiser Posted September 24, 2012 #17 Share Posted September 24, 2012 I subscribe to Ocean and Cruise News, Cruise Travel, and Porthole and find them informative in their own way. For more behind the scenes information and industry news, Cruise Industry News is hard to beat, I think. Captain Hans Mateboer, a HAL Captain and, I think, one of the current Masters of the Noordam, writes an entertaining article for the magazine. His past articles form the basis for his book, The Captain's Log. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sail7seas Posted September 24, 2012 #18 Share Posted September 24, 2012 I'm thinking about a subscription to Cruise Industry News. I think that could be interesting reading. I see the one mention of it above...... Anyone else subscribe to it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjcruiser Posted September 26, 2012 #19 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Cruise Travel and Porthole have turned mainly into advertisements, so I stopped subscribing. You can get more information from cruise critic and also Travel Weekly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruisin' Chick Posted September 26, 2012 #20 Share Posted September 26, 2012 I too had subscribed to Cruise Travel and then let my subscription lapse. It sometimes had some features on new ships, but most of the time it seemed too thin on real info and the cruise calendar seemed inadequate or out of date (and besides, one can find more up to date info online). Porthole seemed too expensive. When Borders was still open, I would check their magazine racks to see if there was a copy of the magazine that I could flick through. But it was usually not compelling enough to buy. The Berlitz book struck me as being on the snobby side. I do like the Budget Travel magazine, even though I let that subscription lapse too, because I don't do enough regular travel to really benefit from the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrigley80 Posted September 26, 2012 #21 Share Posted September 26, 2012 I can't find Porthole magazine anywhere.....in book stores, on my Nook Color, or on my iPhone. Is that magazine still published??? :confused: :confused: :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeaBag Posted September 26, 2012 #22 Share Posted September 26, 2012 I dropped Cruise Travel too because I found Cruise Critic to contain lots of the info I need. In fact, I just put about 10 years of the magazines in the recycling bin this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul929207 Posted September 26, 2012 #23 Share Posted September 26, 2012 I can't find Porthole magazine anywhere.....in book stores, on my Nook Color, or on my iPhone. Is that magazine still published??? :confused: :confused: :confused: Here is their website http://www.porthole.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sail7seas Posted September 26, 2012 #24 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Now that you mention it, I don't usually see Porthole at a newstand I visit from time to time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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