The Cruisington Times The Cruisington Times A feast of tantalizing travel ideas, sights, reviews, links

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 [...]
Cruise Lines

Every Space Tells a Story: Designing a Floating World

Think of cruise ships as planets. They’re self-sufficient floating worlds that imaginative designers create into unique environments. Read the first part of this exclusive story here. In this second part of an interview with Wallace [...]

Glass Terminal in Miami is a Sustainable Icon

by Wallace Immen in Cruise Lines Comments Off on Glass Terminal in Miami is a Sustainable Icon

Call it a pearl, call it a jewel, a glittering new terminal at the port of Miami is a landmark. The new Terminal B for Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. ships has also become the [...]

AmaWaterways’ Newest Ship Baptized

April 29, 2016 Comments Off

In a celebration fueled by German beer, Serbian wine and triumphant fireworks, AmaWaterways’ newest arrival was baptized in a gala shipyard ceremony. A beaming Kristin Karst, executive vice-president and co-owner of AmaWaterways broke a traditional […]

Antarctica is a Wedding Destination for the First Time

February 22, 2022 Comments Off

For the first time, betrothed couples were legally joined in matrimony on the seventh continent. On Feb. 18, Atlas Ocean Voyages performed the first official wedding on Antarctica. Bride Courtnie Dodson and Groom Brody Vermillion […]

American Eagle is the first of 12 Coastal Cats

August 1, 2023 Comments Off

American Eagle, is the first of an ambitious plan to build 12 American-flagged coastal cruise ships. The 100-guest American Cruise Lines catamaran passed sea trials with flying colors and was delivered on schedule by Chesapeake […]

Celebrity Apex Delivered Virtually

March 30, 2020 Comments Off

Despite the cruise shutdown, Celebrity Cruises has taken delivery of its newest ship—this one a virtual handover via video conference with officials of the French shipyard Chantiers de l’Atlantique. Celebrity Apex, with capacity for 2,900 […]

Northwest Passage: Impossible Dream Becomes a Reality

October 5, 2023 1

Are you ready for an adventure that will make history? We’re about to sail across the top of the world, to explore the fabled Northwest Passage and set foot on places few people have ever […]