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Cruises Get Caught as the Gulf Conflict Spreads

With the Middle East conflict spreading at an epidemic rate, cruise lines are scrambling to avoid disruption and planning far ahead to steer clear of an epic storm. Some were caught in the crosshairs. Three [...]
Celebrity Cruises

Classic Celebrity Takes the Stage With a New Look

Celebrity Cruises is showcasing the bow to stern upgrades of its four Solstice Series ships in a $250-million modernization program. Guests on Celebrity Solstice will find eight new experiences, including four completely new public spaces, and many [...]
Asia

Confessions of an Enchanted Cruise Time Traveller

What if every other day was 25 hours long? What if you could make an entire day vanish–or jump from one year to the next and back again? And what if you could fly home [...]
Cruises

How a Cadet Rose to Captain on Star Clippers

Eleven years after joining Star Clippers as a deck cadet, 36-year-old Vadim Novikov has become the youngest commanding officer in the sail cruise company’s history. As captain of Star Flyer, Novikov will oversee ship operations [...]
Asia

New Luxury Atlas Yacht will Sport Sails

Atlas Ocean Cruises has revealed it’s building a new luxury expedition sailing yacht with sails and an eco-friendly hybrid propulsion system that can run almost silently. Atlas Adventurer will be purpose-built for global exploration, seamlessly [...]

A Sneak Peek at Lindblad’s Endurance: a Ship Built to Explore Anywhere

by Wallace Immen in Alaska Comments Off on A Sneak Peek at Lindblad’s Endurance: a Ship Built to Explore Anywhere

Lindblad Expeditions radical new ship has got a unique hull design that will give guests a wraparound view of previously inaccessible areas of the world. That’s the promise Sven Lindblad, the company’s CEO and president [...]

Round the World on $10 a day? Yes, but Cruising is a Better Deal Today

January 4, 2017 Comments Off

A World Cruise for $10 a day! Sounds incredible but it was true—at the dawn of modern cruising 90 years ago. Europe was finally pulling itself back together from the devastation of the War to […]

Fashion, Kumquats and Bangers on a Cruise Tour in Colorful Corfu

October 27, 2016 Comments Off

The toughest thing about taking a stroll around old Corfu Town is actually getting in to town. The cruise terminal for the wonderfully historic Greek island is a fair distance from the city itself. It’s so […]

Athens is Making an Olympic-Class Tourism Recovery

April 20, 2022 1

Squeezing through the massive crowds of shoppers waiting in queues to get into tony stores on Ermou Street or joining waves of tourists making pilgrimages to the Acropolis, it’s almost impossible to believe that five […]

Your Own Party on SeaDream!

April 3, 2016 Comments Off

It’s always been the best ongoing cocktail party at sea and increasingly it’s becoming the seagoing choice to charter for celebrating milestone events with a 100 or so of your best friends. SeaDream Yacht Club […]

Divers from Star Flyer Drop In on a Fishy Orgy in Costa Rica

February 23, 2013 Comments Off

It’s party time along the coast of Costa Rica. Beneath the waves, the action is as hot and heavy as it can get at Spring Break time above water on the beaches of Cancun or […]