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Don't panic, no aliens are not coming, just the Holidays!Cruising during the holidays is a family tradition for a lot of families.  We have cruised on Thanksgiving and Christmas before and thoroughly enjoyed the decorations and festivities.  We are actually cruising this Thanksgiving  week on the Carnival Magic.  One of our favorite traditions is picking out a new door decoration.  We have switched between a door banner and a door magnet on past cruises.  One o …

We have taken 20+ cruises over the past 10 years and since we have started Premier Cruise Gear we now cruise 2 - 3 times a year.  We love every aspect of cruising.  We have been on small, medium and some of the new mega ships.  While each ship has different features and aspects, the one constant on every ship is chair hoggers?What are chair hoggers?  You might not know the term but you have definitely seen their work.  They are the people who rise at the crack of dawn lo …

As the owners of Premier Cruise Gear, Mike and Karen Kelley, we generally cruise 2 - 3 times a year.  We try to stay on top of the the new ships, cruising trends and test new products on ships before we add them to our inventory.  While on the ship, we hand our free promotional items such as key chains, can and bottle sleeves, Towel Anchors, key card holders, reusable straws and more.  On our last cruise in July, we gave out 50 bon voyage goody bags that contained numero …

To decorate your cabin door or not?Let me start with saying that we have not received or read any "official" notifications from any cruise line regarding door decorations, with the exception of Carnival regarding fire retardant items.So the question is: why decorate your cabin door?You could ask 100 people this question and get about 100 reasons why or why not.  For me personally, I like to decorate our cabin door with a banner and/or magnet mainly to find the cabin easier.As new and bigger …

Hello All!We have just returned from Back 2 Back cruises on the NCL Breakaway.  We needed to test our newest product, The Towel Anchor, not only on the ship but also at various beaches at the ports.Why test everything on a ship?  When we started Premier Cruise Gear we decided that we would not sell any items that we were not sure they would be appropriate or suitable for cruising.  Because of this policy we have discarded numerous items that just weren't practical for cruisers.So, …