I get asked sometimes how I manage to cover as much cruise news, as many ports, and as many cruise lines as I do — so here’s the honest answer.
I use AI tools to help research and draft articles, and I review and edit every single one before it goes live.
Here’s why: the cruise industry moves fast. New ship announcements, itinerary changes, policy updates — there’s more happening every week than one person can realistically write about from scratch while still, you know, actually going on cruises. AI helps me keep up with the volume without sacrificing the thing I actually care about, which is giving you real, useful, specific information instead of a trickle of posts once a month.
What that actually looks like in practice:
- AI tools help pull together research and a first draft on a given topic — a new ship announcement, a port guide, a policy change.
- I review every article before it publishes. That means checking it for accuracy, cutting anything that reads generic or padded, and making sure it actually sounds like something I’d tell a fellow cruiser, not a brochure.
- If something doesn’t meet that bar, it gets fixed or it doesn’t go up.
What I don’t do: publish something just because a tool generated it. If an article doesn’t hold up — factually, or just in terms of actually being useful — it doesn’t go live. My name (well, Cruise Guy’s name) is on this site, and I take that seriously.
One honest caveat: cruise details — prices, itineraries, policies, ship amenities — change constantly. Always double-check anything time-sensitive directly with the cruise line before you book or make a decision based on something you read here. That’s true of any travel site, AI-assisted or not, but worth saying plainly.
Got a question about how a specific article came together, or think something’s wrong? Reach out — I’d genuinely like to know.