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Celebrity Ascent

Discovering Celebrity’s Hidden Foodie Paradises

I’ve got a dinner date in Eden and an evening of grand dining in a four-star rated restaurant. And they’re both on a cruise ship. Le Voyage on Celebrity Ascent rates four stars among restaurants [...]
Celestyal Cruises

Wintertime’s the New Time for Cruising in Europe

With global conflicts seemingly never-ending, more cruise lines are shifting winter itineraries away from the Middle East and Africa to offer guests the security of Europe. And they’re seeing strong bookings because despite the cooler [...]
Canada

Great Lakes Cruises Expanding to Halifax

Hapag-Lloyd Cruises is expanding its Great Lakes cruise program with two new longer itineraries aboard the expedition ship HANSEATIC inspiration in 2027. For the first time, guests can experience all five Great Lakes together with [...]
10 Best Lists

5 Reasons to Bring the Olympic Games Back to Their Source

The brochures for s Celebrity Cruises shore excursion in Katakolon, Greece say it’s an opportunity to re-live what it was like to participate in the ancient Olympiade. Well not exactly re-live it, because the athletes then did [...]
Cruise Lines

You’ll Need a Map to Navigate This Cruise Suite

It’s billed as the pinnacle of ultra-luxury at sea. A two-story, two-bedroom, $25,000-a-night Skyview Regent Suite on the new Seven Seas Prestige covers 8,794-square-feet–that’s-well over three times the size of the average home. As the [...]

AmaWaterways Goes Wild with New Africa River Cruise

by Wallace Immen in Africa Comments Off on AmaWaterways Goes Wild with New Africa River Cruise

For those who don’t have an extremely detailed world atlas handy, the Chobe River in southwest Africa divides Namibia’s Caprivi Strip from Botswana’s Chobe National Park, and its banks boast one of the world’s densest [...]

5 Italian Lessons: Learning to Do Like the Romans on a Roman Holiday

May 10, 2017 Comments Off

My life as a Roman didn’t get off the smoothest start. A big guy whose name tag said he’s Francesco held up a huge knife and looked perplexed as I tried to tell him what […]

Exclusive Gene Simmons Interview: Why KISS Has Its Own Navy

July 30, 2015 Comments Off

The KISS Navy is due to form again for a KISS Kruse 2023. It’s part of a growing industry trend in music-based theme cruises. There are more than a dozen jazz, country, soul, rock and […]

5 Thrills of Flying on a Beaver with an Eagle’s Eye View of Unspoiled Alaska

May 7, 2015 Comments Off

In the rest of the world, planes take off from a runway. In Alaska, almost any stretch of water will do. Today on a shore excursion from a cruise on Oceania Cruises we’re going to […]

Break out the Bourbon, Cruising Resumes on U.S. Rivers

March 22, 2021 2

American Queen Steamboat Company christened its newest ship, American Countess with a bottle of bourbon, marking resumption of U.S. river cruising. As a U.S. flagged company operating ships smaller than 250 passengers, American Queen is […]

Stupendous Stupas Accent Ama’s Entry into Myanmar Cruising

May 18, 2014 Comments Off

There’s no sight quite like the endless vista of ancient Buddhist stupas in the valley of Bagan at sunset as the light plays off the domed roofs topped with gilded spires that have been here […]