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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 [...]

MSC Seashore Coming to Miami Puts the Accent on Kids

by Wallace Immen in Cruise Lines Comments Off on MSC Seashore Coming to Miami Puts the Accent on Kids

A boatload of brand-new kids’ entertainment is arriving on board MSC Seashore, the company’s new flagship debuting in August and due to sail from Miami starting in November, 2021.As a family-owned company, a key element [...]

MSC Celebrates Delivery of Greenest Ship Yet

May 31, 2023 1

MSC Cruises may still have only the third-largest cruise fleet in the world, but it keeps expanding in grand fashion. At a ceremony in France, the cruise division of MSC Group took delivery of its […]

Nobu’s Back on Relaunched Crystal Cruises

March 15, 2023 Comments Off

It will be back to the future when the relaunched Crystal Serenity and Crystal Symphony set sail for their inaugural seasons later this year. The range of restaurants will include popular UMI UMA by Nobu […]

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

October 15, 2015 Comments Off

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 Boom in Europe River Cruising Has Cruise Lines Seeking New Routes

January 6, 2016 Comments Off

River cruises in Europe have certainly matured in the past few years, offering the kind of amenities, luxury and cuisine once only found on ocean-going ships. As their popularity increases, all the river fleets are […]

Cruises Launch on a New River: The Tennessee

June 14, 2023 1

You’ve probably danced the Tennessee Waltz, but it’s not likely you’ve ever had a chance to sail the Tennessee River. American Cruise Lines is inaugurating eight-day cruises on a river seldom explored with new eight-day […]