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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 [...]
Uncategorized

Master Cuisine Showcasing on Oceania’s Newest Ship

In a landmark collaboraton, Oceania Cruises has revealed details of La Table par Maîtres Cuisiniers de France to debut aboard the brand’s next-generation ship, Oceania Sonata, coming in 2027..La Table is the first and only [...]

Norwegian will Embark with New Entertainment Protocols

by Wallace Immen in Celebrity Interviews 1

The shipboard experience will be different not only for guests but also entertainers when cruising resumes. And Norwegian Cruise Line is providing a tease of the new format of socially distanced shows in a program [...]

Journey to the End of the World in the Algarve

June 8, 2022 1

They won’t believe this selfie. Gotta lean back a little further and grin. A little more…whoa, that was close. Tumbling off the edge of Portugal’s End of the World would mean cannonballing a couple of […]

Is Bigger Better? We’re About to Find Out

December 26, 2024 1

Some of the biggest ships ever built are beckoning in 2025 as cruising attracts record bookings. Many new arrivals are sisters of ships that were already the largest ever when they made their debuts. Even […]

9 Ways Portland Stays Weird While Being the West Coast’s Sanest City

July 16, 2015 1

Keep Portland Weird. It’s a slogan that pops up on walls, bumper stickers and menus around Oregon’s mecca of mellowness. Before a recent cruise by Un-Cruise Adventures up the Columbia River, I had the chance to […]

Venice Remains a Cruise Destination after Compromise

September 1, 2021 1

Cruise ships will still be docking in Venice, thanks to a temporary solution that re-routes big ships away from the fragile canal that skirts the historic city. Temporary landing places are being set up to […]

Carnival’s Sunrise a Family Tradition

March 29, 2019 Comments Off

As Carnival Sunrise makes her debut following a $200-million transformation, Carnival Cruise Line announced that Kelly Arison, daughter of Carnival Corp. Chairman Micky Arison and his wife Madeleine, will serve as godmother for the ship […]