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Alaska

Why a 15-year Alaskan Dream Ended So Suddenly

A small, niche cruise line sailing in Southeast Alaska has called it quits. “Effective immediately, Alaskan Dream Cruises has ceased business operations and will no longer be operating future sailings,” the cruise line announced on [...]
Alaska

Explora’s Largest Ship Yet Becomes Its Own Destination

Explora Journeys calls Explora III a destination in her own right. And she’s launching ahead of schedule in July, 2026 with a naming ceremony in Barcelona Aug. 1. Longer and with expanded public space compared [...]
Austria

Celebrity Plans to Flood Europe with River Cruises

Make that 20! Celebrity River Cruises has announced a commitment for 10 more new ships that will expand its European river cruise fleet to 20 vessels by 2031. All this while construction of the first [...]
Cruise Lines

Designing New Worlds— Like Home, Only Better

If you were creating a spaceship to explore distant planets, you’d want it to be designed by people who build cruise ships. They’re self-sufficient floating worlds that imaginative designers create as unique, welcoming environments. In [...]
Cruise Lines

Every Space Tells a Story: Designing a Floating World

Think of cruise ships as planets. They’re self-sufficient floating worlds that imaginative designers create into unique environments. Read the first part of this exclusive story here. In this second part of an interview with Wallace [...]

The edge of Mombacho volcano in Nicaragua

An Exorcised Volcano’s Still Hot on a Star Flyer Tour in Nicaragua

by Wallace Immen in Central America 1

It’s enough to get you believing there really is an Underworld. The unholy heat, the endless smoke and the choking smell of sulfur that you sense at the rim of the Mombacho volcano’s seemingly endless [...]

Fly Deep at Exclusive Fiji Resort

March 18, 2014 Comments Off

Fijian private island resort Laucala Island is the first resort in the world to offer a DeepFlight Super Falcon submersible experience. The two–person Hawkes Ocean Technologies submersible lets guests tour shallow lagoons and colorful reefs and view […]

Ama Provides the Keys to Unlock the Lower Danube’s Iron Gates

August 18, 2016 Comments Off

The Iron Gates: They sound so formidable, but these days you can lighten up. Passing through them becomes a party. The name of the treacherous and narrow gorge on the lower Danube stems from the daunting challenge it posed […]

Naughty or Nice? It Means a Lot in Europe’s Colorful Christmas Markets

December 10, 2014 Comments Off

Once upon a time, before the scourge of Black Friday, the Christmas shopping season didn’t start before December and Santa Claus wasn’t a shill for a soft drink company. Remarkably, it’s still like that in […]

Fanfare, Champagne and Fireworks Christen AmaWaterways’ Newest

May 29, 2018 1

When AmaWaterways has a christening, it’s a family affair with traditions that go back centuries. The whole town of Vilshofen, Germany seemed to have gathered on the banks of the Danube as AmaWaterways’ newest ship […]

A new Spirit for Sea Cloud Fleet

November 20, 2018 Comments Off

It’s always a special event when a new tall ship hits the waves and Sea Cloud Cruises has the Spirit. Sea Cloud Spirit, a new sailing ship with 43,000 square feet of sail area will […]