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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 [...]

Teppanaki restaurant on Carnival Horizon

From Smoking Oysters to Teppanyaki: 10 Fun Tastes on Carnival Horizon

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It’s never been said about a Carnival Cruise that there aren’t enough opportunities to eat. But somehow, the new Carnival Horizon manages to pack in even more opportunities to dine than her similarly sized fleet [...]

Ready to Enter Explora Journeys’ Ocean State of Mind?

April 11, 2023 1

The lobby of Explora 1 evokes comparisons to the luxury of a grand European hotel. The itineraries speak of extraordinary adventures with whimsical names like Glacier Carved Islands or the Valley of Mischievous Trolls. Explora […]

Pre/Post Cruise in Hong Kong: The Longer the Better

July 28, 2011 Comments Off

A good friend who’s travelled almost as much as I have has a saying: There are one-day cities and weekend cities and then there’s Hong Kong. That’s worth a week. We agree wholeheartedly. If you can […]

Norwegian Aqua Will be Prima With a Plus

November 2, 2023 Comments Off

Norwegian Cruise Line revealed the evolution of the Prima Class with the new Norwegian Aqua. The first of an expanded Prima Plus Class sets sail in April, 2025. Bookings are open for Norwegian Aqua’s first […]

How MSC Plans to Dominate the Young Cruise Market

July 22, 2024 1

Young travellers are driving a cruise boom, according to the Cruise Lines International Association’s 2024 State of the Cruise Industry report. Its surveys find that 88 per cent of Millennials and 86 per cent of […]

Setting Sail in Style on the Elegant Sea Cloud Spirit

January 8, 2024 2

Scrambling up the masts of one of the world’s largest sailing ships on rope ladders, crew members gingerly balance on tightrope-like lines to untie knots and let her huge sails unfurl in the wind. On […]