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Caribbean By Cruise Ship: The Complete Guide To Cruising The Caribbean (Caribbean By Cruise Ship)(4th Edition)
Caribbean By Cruise Ship: The Complete Guide To Cruising The Caribbean (Caribbean By Cruise Ship)(4th Edition)

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Author: Anne Vipond
Publisher: Ocean Cruise Guides
Category: Book

List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 6 reviews
Sales Rank: 220124

Media: Paperback
Edition: 4th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.2 x 0.8

ISBN: 0968838952
Dewey Decimal Number: 917
EAN: 9780968838952
ASIN: 0968838952

Publication Date: October 31, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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  • Paperback - Caribbean By Cruise Ship: The Complete Guide To Cruising The Caribbean with Giant color pull-out map
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  • Paperback - Caribbean By Cruise Ship: The Complete Guide to Cruising the Caribbean

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
The world's most popular cruise destination comes alive in this beautiful guide to Caribbean cruising. Completely revised, this new edition contains current information on best beaches, dive sites and golf courses as well as port and island attractions. Hundreds of photos and maps, all in color. Includes giant pull-out color map.


Customer Reviews:   Read 1 more reviews...

3 out of 5 stars Colorful cruise book   January 26, 2008
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is a physically heavy but informationally lightweight guide for crusing in the Caribbean. It is good but not great. We found it only slightly useful, preferring the Insight Guide Caribbean Cruises for more content and especially the "Cruising the Eastern Caribbean" more suitable to our nature oriented tastes. The latter book covers only EASTERN islands.


5 out of 5 stars well thoughtout guidebook   December 28, 2007
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

We just returned from a 10 day southern Caribbean cruise and found this book invaluable. The maps were great! Details on shore excursions and port attractions allowed us to focus on aspects we were interested in and also gave us the confidence to do walkabouts. Great book, highly recommended.


4 out of 5 stars Worth Buying   July 10, 2006
 6 out of 6 found this review helpful

This book provided very good information about where the ships dock, as well as activities on the islands, modes and costs of transportation, and feedback about beaches, shopping and water activities. The maps and information that showed the distances from the ship to the activities/localities were just what I was looking for to plan my days on the islands. In addition, the book was very helpful in the selection of shore excursions that I could do on my own and through the ship (e.g., it helped to narrow down the best spots for snorkeling and golf, etc.). I would recommend it to anyone traveling via cruise ship to the Caribbean.


5 out of 5 stars Cruise Book with lots of practical information   April 7, 2006
 10 out of 10 found this review helpful

This is an excellent guide book for both the first time cruiser and the seasoned traveller. My travel agent gave this book as a gift to those of us cruising as a group to the Eastern Caribbean this past spring. Athough I have sailed on many cruise ships and feel I know many of the differences between the lines and ships, those in our group who were new to cruising found the glossary section very useful and filled with practical tips to make their cruise more enjoyable and less confusing (ie) tipping policy,dining options, onboard activities.

We liked the pull out map and had this hanging in our staterooms so that we could plot our course each day. The smaller maps of the ports of call were very useful, and often had more detail than the maps from the shore excursion desk onboard. So often on a cruise I feel the tour department is promoting their shops and excursions ... but having this book provided an unbiased synopsis of what there was to see in each port and where to go.

The section on Caribbean history and the history of each island helps in understanding the people and the culture. When one 'drops into a port' for just a few hours or a day, it is not always easy to get the entire flavour of the people. By knowing a bit of the history, my onshore experience was
certainly enhanced.



1 out of 5 stars You'll do better with internet searches than this book   June 28, 2005
 10 out of 16 found this review helpful

I was incredibly disappointed in this book. I haven't taken a cruise in over a decade and still didn't learn a thing reading this book. It reads like a travelogue for various islands in the Caribbean but offers no insights on any of the ships or any of the lines. It didn't have much on shore excursions either. I learned more from the various cruise lines home pages than I did from this book.

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