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Crystal Cruises Wants To Help You Understand Your iPhone

Filed under: Water

Here's an interesting reason to go on a cruise, help with your gadgets. Crystal Cruises is offering the services of a "technology concierge" whose job it is to train and educate guests on their latest gadgets. The concierges can tell you how to get the most from your iPhone, Blackberry, Kindle or GPS device. The ships' Crystal's Bistros will offer the latest technology magazines and Crystal's "Gadget Committee" plans to continually add new technology and update their in-house education to ensure the Technology Concierges remain current. I just want to know where you apply to be a technology concierge.

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Crystal Cruises 2008 How To World Cruise

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Filed under: Journeys, Water

Crystal Cruises has announced the lineup for its 108-day 2008 World Cruise, which leaves from Los Angeles on January 19. The cruise includes more than 200 classes on board. The range is eclectic and runs from how to manage your money with Jane Bryant Quinn, to memory improvement, astronomy lectures, yoga practices and how to "know more about everything" led by the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson.

Crystal Serenity's 2008 108-day World Cruise will visit 45 ports of call in 22 countries throughout the South Pacific, Asia, Africa and Europe. There are eight distinctive segments ranging from 11 to 17 days. The full World Cruise voyage ranges from $49,800 to $261,210, per person, double occupancy, while segment fares start at $4,890, per person, double occupancy.

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Crystal Cruises Ultimate Vintage Room Dinner

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Filed under: Dining, Water, Wine

How's this for a booze cruise, sampling a nearly impossible-to-get 1961 German Riesling and a 1959 Chateau Mouton Rothschild, Pauillac and five other rare wines while cruising from Istanbul to Athens. Crystal Cruises' second Ultimate Vintage Room Dinner will take place on Crystal Serenity's October 6, 2007 voyage from Istanbul to Athens. The seven wines are Krug, Vintage Brut, Reims, France 1990 - Riesling, Auslese, Wehlener Sonnenuhr, J.J. Prum, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer, Germany 1961 - Chevalier-Montrachet, Grand Cru, Domaine Leflaive, Burgundy, France 1998 - Barbaresco, Angelo Gaja, Piedmont, Italy 1989 - Chateau Mouton-Rothschild, Pauillac, Bordeaux, France 1959 - Grange Hermitage, Penfolds, South Australia 1986 - Graham's Vintage Port, Portugal 1955. The seven-course menu features warm oriental duck salad; Goutte d'or, coriander and ginger; steamed scallops Maitre Lurkin; risotto al funghi; mignon of angus beef, shallot sauce, market vegetables; vacherin cheese; and mille-feuilles with red berries and cardamom ice cream. Nice pairings but personally I never miss the chance to pair Port with chocolate. The meal costs $1,250 per person.

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