Nanci Ott

A broken leg in the Cayman Islands changed how Nanci Ott thinks about cruise travel protection. Learn what to consider beyond the price of your cruise.

By Nanci Ott | Tinker Travel Imagine waking up on a ship at two o’clock in the morning because someone is pulling the covers off your bed. You open your eyes, sit up, and see a man standing at the foot of it. Except there’s one problem. There isn’t supposed to be anyone else in the room. That’s the kind of story that makes haunted ships irresistible around Halloween. It’s also the kind that makes me very interested in exactly which cabin I’m booking. So, are cruise ships actually haunted?...

Written by: Nanci Ott When I went to Antarctica without my husband, I thought the trip would be about penguins, whales, icebergs, and finally standing on my seventh continent. I was wrong. What I remember most is the people. My husband and I usually travel together, but when the opportunity came up for me to take a 23-day Antarctica expedition cruise, he couldn’t take that much time off work. I could either wait for another time or go alone. So I went. The trip began in Buenos Aires, where...