The latest trends in cruising

What are the hot trends in cruising? How will fuel costs affect the prices you pay? And what sort of stateroom do the experts book?

For a winter cruising forecast, we tapped the expertise of Carolyn Spencer Brown, editor of CruiseCritic.com, the Web's largest interactive guide to cruising. The site covers nearly 300 cruise ships, over 60 cruise lines and 200 ports of call.

An unlikely convert to cruising (''I get seasick pretty easily on everything from a ride on a naval destroyer to a sailboat'') Spencer Brown is now a veteran, having logged well over 100 cruises.

Here is an edited version of our discussion.

Question: First up, the consumer issues. What will cruise pricing look like for this winter and into 2009?

Answer: What we are going to see . . .
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