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Atlas Ocean Voyages

Atlas Flipping the Globe for 2028 Arctic Cruises

Atlas Ocean Voyages, a line more identified with South Polar exploration, is setting sights North for a highly anticipated 2028 Arctic Season, featuring 13 newly curated journeys ranging from seven to 17 nights. Sailing aboard [...]
Canada

It’s Shaping Up as a Great Lakes Future

Cruisers choosing to stay close to home, repeat guests and smoother sailing have cruise lines planning a long future in the Great Lakes.Viking has just announced its 2028–2029 expedition voyages that include Great Lakes cruises [...]
Cruise Lines

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 [...]

6 Realities Destined to Affect Your Cruise Options in the Coming Years

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The top brass from the world’s cruise lines gathered in Miami to brag about their new ships and plot the courses their fleets will take in the future. Ports you may never have heard of [...]

Fishing shacks become summer homes in Olden Norway

Seabourn Sojourn’s Olden Day Shows Why Norway’s the Stuff of Fairy Tales

August 4, 2012 Comments Off

When Seabourn Sojourn docks in Olden, Norway, the local population doubles. The village is olden all right– with several of its houses and its iconic church dating back to the 1700s. And the setting is […]

Seabourn Passengers Make Like Mountain Goats on a Norwegian Trek

September 3, 2018 Comments Off

I couldn’t get the Beatles tune The Long and Winding Road out of my head as passengers from Seabourn Cruise Line’s new Seabourn Ovation started out down a rocky mountainside road that’s best suited for mountain […]

Harmonic Convergence: 6 Advances on the Biggest Cruise Ship Yet

February 25, 2016 Comments Off

Watch out, because railings and glass balconies haven’t all been installed. Wires dangle from ceilings and scaffolds and tarps are everywhere. Just three months away from her launch, Harmony of the Seas still looks like […]

10 Things to Know Now if You’re Visiting Bermuda on a Cruise

July 24, 2018 1

It’s the island of pink and green. And you can’t miss blue–in so many shades that they have to be seen to believed–and the blazing reds and yellows of the flowering trees. Bermuda, the tiny […]

Emerald to the Heart of Saigon

August 1, 2019 Comments Off

Emerald Waterways brand new Star-Ship, Emerald Harmony that has just started sailing the Mekong River, is unique in Asia for a number of reasons. New images of the ship’s amenities tell the story: 1) Sail […]