The Avid Cruiser website automatically adapts to display on your iPhone, iPod touch or Android touch mobile device

Carry the Avid Cruiser web site with you when you travel. The Avid Cruiser is fully compatible with your iPhone, iPod Touch and Android touch mobile devices. When you log on to the Avid Cruiser using one of those mobile devices, the web site automatically switches to an optimized version for your device.

You can also read Avid Cruiser digital edition on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Just click this url.

Be careful using your iPhone on ships. You may be charged a higher per-minute rate for both data and voice. Even if you use Skype on the iPhone, which many ship internet providers block, you’ll have to pay for pricey — and pokey — WiFi service.

Better to wait until you’re in port, then find a WiFi cafe or use your phone at regular or reduced rates. If you’re traveling internationally, be sure to check international roaming rates before leaving home.

Please let us know how you communicate when cruising.

Official Press Release

Avid Cruiser Site Redesigned, Optimized For Mobile Devices

Travelers can now take the Avid Cruiser web site to sea and ashore on portable devices such as the iPhone and Blackberry.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (Dec. 15, 2009) — The Avid Cruiser Web site has been completely redesigned and is the first cruise-review site to be specifically optimized for access via handheld mobile devices. The update of the 10-year-old site integrates Avid Cruiser with social networking sites, improves navigation of its extensive archive of articles, videos and photographs, and incorporates a new design theme.

The Avid Cruiser Web site is designed to help consumers make informed cruise vacation decisions by providing them with content that is “personal, passionate, informed and inspired.” The site’s articles, videos and photos impart straightforward, practical advice based on the wide travel experience of its writers.

“We aren’t trying to be the biggest Web site covering the cruise industry, but we are trying to be the best,” said Ralph Grizzle, publisher of Avid Cruiser. “To reach the widest possible audience, it is essential that we engage social media and ensure that the site is easily accessible to mobile devices.”

To access the site from a handheld device — an iPhone, Blackberry or other smart phone — users simply go to www.avidcruiser.com. There is no application to download or install. The site automatically loads in a fully optimized format, featuring all of the site’s content.

“More and more people are leaving their laptops at home and choosing to travel with their smart phone,” noted Grizzle. “By providing a fully mobile-optimized Web site, we’re ensuring that our readers can access our content and experience the site from virtually anywhere in the world.

“The ability to access the site while traveling can be particularly helpful to those who need guidance in destinations through articles such as The Avid Cruiser’s Two Perfect Days, Copenhagen,” said Grizzle.

Avid Cruiser contains more than 1,000 articles, 1,500 photographs and 200 videos covering cruise ships, the shipboard cruise experience and cruise ship destinations around the world. Avid Cruiser’s sister sites are Family Cruise Advisor and River Cruise Advisor.

About The Avid Cruiser:

The Avid Cruiser is a one-stop source for information about cruises — with photo essays, interviews with friendly staff members, and even a full glossy print magazine that covers the new destinations, ships, cruises, and adventures that any cruiser — avid expert or first time traveler — can set sail on to bring home memories that will last a lifetime.