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Asia

What Can We Learn from the Tragic End of an Odyssey?

What was sold as the “never-ending cruise” certainly ended in dramatic fashion–with residents told they had just a few hours to pack up and leave their homes at sea.The Villa Vie Odyssey, a residential cruise [...]
Africa

Viking Plots a Journey Worthy of Pharoahs

Viking has opened bookings for a new 19-day Grand Nile Journey itinerary exploring ancient Egypt in unprecedented depth. The explorations in 2028 feature four hotel nights in Egypt’s capital and 14-night sailings between Cairo and [...]
Cruise Lines

Explora Rounding out its Family at a Half Dozen

Explora Journeys keeps innovating as its completes its planned fleet of six ships. The luxury cruise brand of MSC Group marked milestones in the building of the final ships in its fleet at a shipyard [...]
Cruise Lines

The More the Merroir in Dining on Seabourn

Seabourn is expanding its gourmet range with the launch of Earth & Ocean, a culinary philosophy to shape menus to the local “terroir and merroir ” of places its ships visit. What started with a series [...]
Cruise Lines

Norwegian Rings a Bella to Top its Prima Class

Norwegian Cruise Line has opened bookings for its sixth and final Prima-class ship, Norwegian Bella, due to debut with weeklong roundtrips from Barcelona in May, 2028.At 1,129 feet and accommodating 3,921 passengers double occupancy she’ll [...]

Libya: Memories of a Country Outsiders Can’t Visit

by Wallace Immen in Africa Comments Off on Libya: Memories of a Country Outsiders Can’t Visit

Shadows of mistrust. The legacy of a defiant dictator. Mass destruction after years of horrific civil war. Corruption and warnings about violence and crime. Libya has one of the most turbulent histories of modern times [...]

Northwest Passage: Impossible Dream Becomes a Reality

October 5, 2023 1

Are you ready for an adventure that will make history? We’re about to sail across the top of the world, to explore the fabled Northwest Passage and set foot on places few people have ever […]

Celebrity’s Tasty Treats for Suites

January 20, 2015 Comments Off

Celebrity Cruises has revealed details of an exclusive restaurant for it top-level Suite Class guests—those booking Sky Suite and higher accomodations. The new Luminae dining room is part of a package of services for suite […]

Cruise Lines are Getting Racy in Europe

May 28, 2024 1

Explora Journeys is getting into race mode to celebrate the arrival of Explora II, its second luxury ship this summer. The new small-ship ocean travel brand is the Global Partner of the Louis Vuitton 37th […]

AmaLea: 7 Factors that Make an AmaWaterways Ship Feel like Home

July 16, 2018 Comments Off

The AmaWaterways experience begins the moment you arrive. Friendly crew members of AmaLea greet us at the dock to make sure we don’t even have to roll our own carry-ons aboard. We’re escorted through a […]

Seeing Rome in a Day: Six Sights from Piazza Navona

November 8, 2011 Comments Off

Salve! It translates literally as “hail,” and dates back to the days when they were wearing togas in the Forum. It’s still a standard morning greeting of Romans when they’re talking among themselves. You hear […]