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Wait for it—Cruise Ships Getting Ordered 10 Years in Advance

Talk about ordering ahead. Two upscale cruise lines have just inked contracts for new ships not due to arrive for more than a decade. It’s the kind of optimism that comes from seeing record-breaking sales [...]
Alaska

Why a 15-year Alaskan Dream Ended So Suddenly

A small, niche cruise line sailing in Southeast Alaska has called it quits. “Effective immediately, Alaskan Dream Cruises has ceased business operations and will no longer be operating future sailings,” the cruise line announced on [...]
Alaska

Explora’s Largest Ship Yet Becomes Its Own Destination

Explora Journeys calls Explora III a destination in her own right. And she’s launching ahead of schedule in July, 2026 with a naming ceremony in Barcelona Aug. 1. Longer and with expanded public space compared [...]
Austria

Celebrity Plans to Flood Europe with River Cruises

Make that 20! Celebrity River Cruises has announced a commitment for 10 more new ships that will expand its European river cruise fleet to 20 vessels by 2031. All this while construction of the first [...]
Cruise Lines

Designing New Worlds— Like Home, Only Better

If you were creating a spaceship to explore distant planets, you’d want it to be designed by people who build cruise ships. They’re self-sufficient floating worlds that imaginative designers create as unique, welcoming environments. In [...]

4 Tastes with Ultimate Views from Hong Kong’s InterContinental Hotel

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There’s no city skyline as iconic and fascinating as Hong Kong’s from the Kowloon side. At night, the architectural mountain range of the Central business district comes alive in neon and a fiber-optic and laser [...]

A Tight Squeeze as Seabourn Sojourn Seeks Out Trolls in Norway

July 16, 2012 Comments Off

It seemed like a mission impossible. Trollfjord is a passage so narrow you can’t even see it between the mountains that surround it until you’re right alongside it. How could our long, wide ship make […]

10 Things to Know Now if You’re Visiting Bermuda on a Cruise

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It’s the island of pink and green. And you can’t miss blue–in so many shades that they have to be seen to believed–and the blazing reds and yellows of the flowering trees. Bermuda, the tiny […]

Three-star French for Sky Princess

March 11, 2019 Comments Off

You won’t have to go all the way to China to enjoy three-star French cuisine on Princess Cruises. La Mer, a casual French bistro-style restaurant inspired by Chef Emmanuel Renaut will be a feature of […]

Petrovaradin fortress in Novi Sad, Serbia

Tours from AmaSonata Give the Lowdown on the Lower Danube

July 6, 2016 Comments Off

There must have been a sale on the letters B and V when they were naming cities along the lower Danube. The itinerary for our journey from Budapest toward the Black Sea has us visiting […]

Revealing Regent’s Pool Oasis

April 28, 2015 Comments Off

Regent Seven Seas is drawing inspiration from high-end pool retreats at exclusive boutique hotels for a Deck 11 oasis on the upcoming Seven Seas Explorer. The concept by Tillberg Design marries Southeast Asian design elements […]