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Transcend Aims to Be the Go-To for Group Cruises

A sleek, dark blue ship with interiors by luxury yacht firm Tillberg Design of Sweden is about to start sailing on Europe’s rivers. Gorgeous, but you can’t just book a single cabin, you have to [...]
Atlas Ocean Voyages

Atlas Flipping the Globe for 2028 Arctic Cruises

Atlas Ocean Voyages, a line more identified with South Polar exploration, is setting sights North for a highly anticipated 2028 Arctic Season, featuring 13 newly curated journeys ranging from seven to 17 nights. Sailing aboard [...]
Canada

It’s Shaping Up as a Great Lakes Future

Cruisers choosing to stay close to home, repeat guests and smoother sailing have cruise lines planning a long future in the Great Lakes.Viking has just announced its 2028–2029 expedition voyages that include Great Lakes cruises [...]
Cruise Lines

MSC Gets Racier with Grand Prix Viewings

Leave it to MSC Cruises to create the ultimate pop-up event. It built a replica of its MSC Yacht Club “ship within a ship” to provide race fans a taste of the line’s seagoing hospitality.At [...]
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 [...]

Gatchina: A Saint Petersburg Palace and Park You Can Call Your Own

by Wallace Immen in Cruise Lines Comments Off on Gatchina: A Saint Petersburg Palace and Park You Can Call Your Own

For fans of fixer-upper home shows, the Gatchina Palace outside Saint Petersburg has got to be the ultimate renovation challenge. Two hundred bedrooms give or take, with ornate plaster work and inlaid hardwood floors everywhere [...]

Florida’s Port Competition Keeps Heating Up

April 28, 2025 Comments Off

Who’s number one? It depends who you ask as Florida’s big cruise ports keep going for records. Greater Miami and Miami Beach have just branded the city the Cruise Capital of the World to celebrate […]

The Star of the Seas is More Than a Sister Act

August 19, 2025 Comments Off

Dare we say super star? Royal Caribbean’s biggest-ever ship promises even more of the “adventures for all ages” than her sister in the fleet. At the gala inaugural of the 5,600-guest Star of the Seas […]

Carnival Mardi Gras Catches Rudi

November 21, 2019 Comments Off

A new seafood restaurant created by Rudi Sodamin, the culinary artist who encourages playing with food, will be a unique dining option on Carnival Cruise Line’s new Mardi Gras when it debuts next summer. Sodamin […]

Why You Need to Sprint to the Sand in Grand Turk

March 31, 2025 1

Since when did finding a spot to lay down a beach towel on an island made of sand become a competitive sport? We’re about to find out on a day docked at the only cruise […]

Windstar’s New Star Pride: A Yacht Elegantly Transformed

January 17, 2014 Comments Off

I’ve sailed in the past aboard the ship now named Star Pride and always relished the experience of being aboard what I’d like to dream of being my own personal yacht. With a party-sized capacity of just over […]