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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 [...]

Goods on sale in a store in Lofoten Peninsula of Norway

Seabourn Sojourn’s Passengers are in Awe on a Shore Excursion to Å

by Wallace Immen in Europe Comments Off on Seabourn Sojourn’s Passengers are in Awe on a Shore Excursion to Å

Today`s shore excursion from Seabourn Sojourn is “A Visit to A.” Excuse me, give me a clue: It`s a visit to A what? Our destination isn`t A as in the letter A, but rather a [...]

Holland America Tour Follows Footsteps of The Godfather

September 10, 2011 Comments Off

Godfather, how much of what I’ve seen in the films is real? What they show about the old country, where the Family came from, does it really exist? On a port call of Holland America […]

Long white river cruise ship named Emerald Lumi docked at the shore with colorful flags on the upper deck and calm water reflecting the boat.

Emerald Gets Ready for an Invasion of Normandy

July 8, 2026 Comments Off

Emerald Cruises & Tours celebrated the ceremonial launch of Emerald Lumi, a ship designed specifically to cruise the Seine River and sail right into the heart of Paris. The new ship measures just 110 meters […]

Holland America Charts a Lyrical Course with Stylish Koningsdam

May 11, 2016 Comments Off

A sensuous chrome sculpture that evokes the silver strings of an ethereal harp swoops around three-decks of the atrium. Up above, at the Crow’s Nest, a sailing ship whose hull is a glorious double bass sprouts full rigging and square […]

Only Agents Can Book Riviera Cruises

December 30, 2019 Comments Off

From now on, Riviera River Cruises wants the pros to do the bookings. “Riviera River Cruises has always been supportive of the travel agency community and we’re excited to take that support even further in […]

Expedition Ships Coming from Viking

January 17, 2020 Comments Off

Viking Cruises announced they will be joining expedition cruise market, with two planned ships designed for the Great Lakes along with polar cruising. Torstein Hagen, Chairman of Viking Cruises calls the concept “the thinking person’s” […]