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MSC Gets Racier with Grand Prix Viewings

Leave it to MSC Cruises to create the ultimate pop-up event. It built a replica of its MSC Yacht Club “ship within a ship” to provide race fans a taste of the line’s seagoing hospitality.At [...]
Canada

Is This The Golden Moment for Great Lakes Cruises?

Victory Cruise Line is seeing a spike in new bookings for its Great Lakes cruises and owner John Waggoner knows why.“I hear it every day: There’s a stalemate in Middle East and the airlines are [...]
Destinations

Oceania Crafting a Ship Dedicated to Long Voyages

Oceania Cruises will re-launch a ship as its dedicated world cruiser after a renovation designed to make it feel like a “home at sea.” Oceania Aurelia will be the new name of Nautica, a ship [...]
Cruises

Wind Star Reborn After 40 Years Under Sail

The yacht that started it all has a fresh new look. When Windstar Cruises 148-guest Wind Star debuted 40 years ago, she helped pioneer a new kind of cruising, with automated sails, an intimate scale, [...]
Cruise Lines

Holland America Investing in Sweeping Fleet Upgrades

Building on record performance, Holland America Line plans a $500-million investment to reimagine six ships. Holland America Evolution is the most ambitious guest experience update in the company’s 153-year history, to deliver a comprehensive bow-to-stern [...]

Carnival Reveals Recipe for Famed Chocolate Melting Cake

by Wallace Immen in Carnival Cruise Line 1

If you can’t get on a cruise this week, Carnival Cruise Line just shared the famous melting cake recipe for you to try in your galley at home, just in time for National Chocolate Cake [...]

Celebrity Reveals its Cutting Edge New Ship Featuring a Magic Carpet

March 14, 2017 2

Sirens wailing, lights flashing to clear the way, our motorcade of black vans surrounded by an escort of motorcycle police pulled up to a high-security laboratory in Miami where a deep secret has been kept […]

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 […]

Notes From the Edge, Celebrity’s Inspiration for the Future of Cruising

March 19, 2019 Comments Off

By JEN SAVEDRA One of the first thing one notices on approaching the new Celebrity Edge is a massive 90-ton bright orange contraption off the starboard side. This is the Magic Carpet, a cantilevered platform which […]

American Queen Stops Churning in Bankruptcy

February 21, 2024 Comments Off

The lingering effects of the pandemic have claimed another victim. A storied American cruise company, American Queen Voyages made the unexpected decision to anchor all its ships and declare bankruptcy as its parent company was […]

Athens is Making an Olympic-Class Tourism Recovery

April 20, 2022 1

Squeezing through the massive crowds of shoppers waiting in queues to get into tony stores on Ermou Street or joining waves of tourists making pilgrimages to the Acropolis, it’s almost impossible to believe that five […]