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Silversea Sweetens the Benefits for Top Suites

Silversea Cruises is organizing its suites into four categories, including one described as Residences. And the top categories are getting new perks on top of Silversea’s existing inclusions, such as butler service, 24-hour in-suite dining, [...]
Celestyal Cruises

Middle East is Erased from Cruise Maps for Years

Cruises lines are now expecting the Persian Gulf is going to be a no-go zone for a long, long time. Explora Journeys has just scratched 2028 Middle East itineraries for two of its ships. They [...]
Costa Cruises

Margaritaville’s Adding a Texas Twang

There’s no stopping the party for Margaritaville at Sea cruise line. It’s adding a third ship to the fleet and launching service from Texas. Beachcomber will sail from Galveston beginning in October, 2027 on four- [...]
Asia

SeaDream is Finally Building a New Luxury Yacht

Sea Dream Yacht Club is ordering a new ultra-luxury ship that can take 200 guests around the world. It’s been a long time coming for the 25-year-old boutique ultra-luxury cruise line ,whose two ships carry [...]
Caribbean

Life Under Sail Just Got More Adventurous

There are quicker ways to cruise, but there’s nothing more romantic and intimaate than doing it the timeless way, under thousands of square feet of billowing sails. And two cruise lines that specialize in sailing [...]

Oceania Going Bigger in Alaska with Riviera

by Wallace Immen in Alaska Comments Off on Oceania Going Bigger in Alaska with Riviera

Oceania Cruises is offering an enhanced gourmet taste of the Last Frontier, sailing a bigger ship with more than a dozen immersive explorations in Alaska in 2025The 1,250 guest Riviera is replacing the smaller Regatta [...]

Grand Case Beach Club: A Unique St. Martin Getaway

January 2, 2024 1

Are we in the south of France–or the Caribbean? It can be deceiving on St. Martin. Navigating the steep hills and winding roads to reach secluded Grand Case Beach Club resembles driving on the Grand […]

Seeing Brittany Like a Local: 5 Tastes of France In The Off Season

March 3, 2016 Comments Off

In February, the French town of La Baule with its castle-like hotels and grandly ornate stone homes looks like a fairy tale ghost town. In a sense it is. When the season is over as […]

6 Little-Known Ports Anxious to Become Regulars on the Cruise Circuit

October 31, 2017 Comments Off

Have you heard about Ubatuba? (Yes, there is a place called Ubatuba). Where’s Guna Yala? Or, how about Antofagasta? You’re about to hear more from these places that until now haven’t had star power. They’re pitching […]

Been there, done that? We doubt it

November 11, 2024 1

No matter how many cruises you’ve done, it’s time to shake things up and broaden your horizons beyond the usual suspects. Cruise lines are plotting a plethora of innovative out-of-the-ordinary cruise options to one-up the […]

Royal Send-off Charts Artistic Future for Hurtigruten’s Ice-Breaking Fleet

April 16, 2018 Comments Off

Photographer, artist, Queen. Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway always has a full schedule, But she took time for a special flight to New York to launch the future direction of the Hurtigruten cruise line […]