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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 [...]

Klutz Meets Creativity and Discovery in Enriched Princess Youth Programs

by Wallace Immen in News Comments Off on Klutz Meets Creativity and Discovery in Enriched Princess Youth Programs

Create a solar system; learn how to survive in the Alaskan wilderness; make decorative cakes or Klutz crafts. These are just a few of the challenging activities being added to expanded and enriched youth programs [...]

Celestyal is Getting Racey on Arabian Gulf Sailings

March 14, 2024 Comments Off

Celestyal Cruises has tailored three new Arabian Gulf cruises to coincide with the Qatar and Abu Dhabi Grand Prix races in late 2024. A three-day grandstand race ticket, which includes complimentary transfers to and from […]

River Ships Target New Audiences and Cruise Less-Known Routes

January 30, 2018 1

From ships designed specifically for Millennials to new cruises on the Nile, the upper Mekong and the Zambezi River, there are no cookie cutter arrivals this year as the choices in river cruising keep expanding. […]

Encore! A Sneak Peek at Seabourn’s Evolutionary New Ship

October 19, 2016 1

The curtain’s about to rise on Seabourn Cruise Line’s newest and it’s clear the luxury brand isn’t just expecting applause for what’s come before. Seabourn Encore is a ship that represents a new stage in […]

Atlas Ocean Launches Exclusive Excursions by Afar

February 27, 2024 Comments Off

Atlas Ocean Voyages is teaming up with Afar Recommends, to offer an exclusive collection of cultural shore excursions on 2024 sailings in Europe, the Caribbean and South America. From meeting with the chief historian of […]

5 Reality Checks on St. Tropez in the Excesses of High Season

August 4, 2016 Comments Off

Saint Tropez, we’re told, was an early Christian martyr whose headless body–along with a rooster and a dog–washed ashore in a leaky rowboat on the beach near what would become his namesake town. Those who […]