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Articles by Wallace Immen

About Wallace Immen
Wallace Immen is Executive Editor of The Cruisington Times, the Best in Cruising, Travel, Food and Fun. He's sailed on all of the world's seas to ports in over 100 countries and travelled on every continent.
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Gondola traffic jam in Venice
Carnival Cruise Line

Has Venice Become Too Popular and Crowded For Its Own Good?

August 22, 2013 Wallace Immen 1

The breathtaking beauty of Venice is both a blessing and its curse. No other place on Earth  has matched the feat of keeping its shape since the high Renaissance. It’s evaded not only urban renewal […]

Serenity waterfall and pool on a quiet day
Carnival Cruise Line

What Works– and What Could Work Better–on the Sparkling New Carnival Sunshine

August 14, 2013 Wallace Immen 2

There’s so much to see on the newly rebuilt Carnival Sunshine and there’s been so little time to actually see it. On my cruise from Barcelona around the Mediterranean to Venice, it’s been a port […]

Bartender Daniel Zanoga is a showman on Carnival Sunshine
Carnival Cruise Line

Carnival Sunshine’s Wizard of Mixology Teaches a Hands-on Course in Bar Alchemy

August 6, 2013 Wallace Immen 1

Looking to get more out of a drink than just a buzz? My friends, on Carnival Sunshine you’ll get not only a lift but a show and a lesson in wizardry at the Alchemy Bar. You’re about […]

Bouquet in Castellet, France
Carnival Cruise Line

Gorgeous Colors of Provence Come Vividly Alive on a Tour from Carnival Sunshine

July 30, 2013 Wallace Immen Comments Off on Gorgeous Colors of Provence Come Vividly Alive on a Tour from Carnival Sunshine

If you can’t spend a year in Provence, you’ve got to at least grab an opportunity to spend a day exploring it. Carnival Cruise Lines offered numerous options on Carnival Sunshine’s visit to Marseille. While […]

Havana Bar on the rebuilt Carnival Sunshine
Carnival Cruise Line

Carnival Sunshine’s Transformation Showcases the Destiny of the Fun Ships

July 23, 2013 Wallace Immen Comments Off on Carnival Sunshine’s Transformation Showcases the Destiny of the Fun Ships

It’s fitting that Carnival Cruise Lines chose its ship called Destiny as the showcase for an ambitious plan to re-engineer its Fun Ships. “When we first decided to change the name of Carnival Destiny to […]

Waiters on Azamara Journey
Azamara Cruises

Dining Around is Commitment-Free on Azamara Journey

July 17, 2013 Wallace Immen Comments Off on Dining Around is Commitment-Free on Azamara Journey

Azamara Journey is a fascinating ship in the modern cruise world. Even when it’s got a full house there are only 694 passengers on board, so it’s considered a small ship.  But it and Azamara […]

Scooter on the island of Kos
Azamara Cruises

Azamara Offers Modern Day Cure for Greek Island Fever on Visit to Ancient Kos

July 14, 2013 Wallace Immen Comments Off on Azamara Offers Modern Day Cure for Greek Island Fever on Visit to Ancient Kos

Limp in, leap out was the theory of health care in ancient Greece. Hospitals were kind of tough-love  health spas where you stayed until you got better. But a lot of it depended on how […]

Cat on the walls of Ephesus
Azamara Cruises

Azamara Evening Makes Ancient Ephesus Even More Amazing

July 7, 2013 Wallace Immen Comments Off on Azamara Evening Makes Ancient Ephesus Even More Amazing

If you want to know the best place to sit in the ancient theater in Ephesus, follow a cat. The many felines who roam the ruins of the Odeon after the tourist throngs have left […]

Monk at monastery of Mykonos
Azamara Cruises

Life’s a Beach, but First Azamara Passengers Visit a Monastery

June 26, 2013 Wallace Immen Comments Off on Life’s a Beach, but First Azamara Passengers Visit a Monastery

Boy am I glad I didn’t suggest to someone at I’d meet them beside the white building with the flat roof on Mykonos. As the tender from the Azamara Journey tied up at the main […]

Welcoming passengers on Azamara Journey
Azamara Cruises

Settling In to an Elegant Home at Sea for an Adventurous Azamara Journey

June 23, 2013 Wallace Immen Comments Off on Settling In to an Elegant Home at Sea for an Adventurous Azamara Journey

Is Azamara Journey a big small ship or a small big ship? It’s a question I pondered on the gangway boarding Azamara Club Cruises’  newly upgraded Journey in Athens’ port of Piraeus. At 10 decks […]

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