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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 [...]

Disney Expecting Cruise Twins

by Wallace Immen in News Comments Off on Disney Expecting Cruise Twins

Disney Cruise Line plans to expand its fleet to six, with two new ships. Each of the still-unnamed ships will have about 1,250 staterooms and be slightly bigger than the newest ships Disney Dream and [...]

8 Reasons Why Crystal Symphony is Better Than Ever

July 10, 2024 1

You can’t keep a winner down. On her return to service, the classic Crystal Symphony has a strikingly fresh new look, with the verve and determination to make new magic. The ship is attracting a […]

Gala Launches Seven Seas Splendor

March 1, 2020 Comments Off

A gorgeous supermodel used an enormous bottle of Champagne to christen the gorgeous new Seven Seas Splendor. In a gala event in Miami, Regent Seven Seas Cruises inaugurated the all-suite, all-balcony luxury ship the line […]

Want to See it all? Check Out the Ultimate World Cruise

October 21, 2021 Comments Off

The Ultimate World Cruise is one for the record books. Royal Caribbean has just announced a journey that will be nine months long and visit 65 countries and all seven continents. The big cruise that’s […]

AmaCerto Guests Find Any Time is Wine Time on the Danube

February 21, 2014 Comments Off

You don’t have to know brix from clicks to appreciate a wine cruise on the Danube. But whether you’re an amateur or a wine pro, you’re sure to come away with a new appreciation for […]

Carnival Transforming ex-Costa Ships to American Tastes

February 22, 2023 Comments Off

What does it take to turn a ship designed for European tastes into a ship that feels like home for a mainly American crowd? Everything from new electrical sockets to burgers and pizza needed a […]