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Canada

Chicago in Focus in New Victory Cruise Tour

As the only cruise line to dock at downtown Chicago’s Navy Pier, Victory Cruise Lines is introducing a new, fully guided Navy Pier Culinary and History Collection for 2026. This walking and culinary experience explores [...]
Cruise Lines

Wait for it—Cruise Ships Getting Ordered 10 Years in Advance

Talk about ordering ahead. Two upscale cruise lines have just inked contracts for new ships not due to arrive for more than a decade. It’s the kind of optimism that comes from seeing record-breaking sales [...]
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 [...]

Going to the Dogs on an Alaska Helicopter Tour

by Wallace Immen in Holland America Line 1

It’s probably easier to get high in Juneau than anywhere in the world. Holland America’s Volendam docked in Alaska’s capital right next to the entrance of a cable car that in minutes can whisk visitors [...]

Gourmet jewels at the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong

September 18, 2014 Comments Off

Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong’s Michelin-starred Chef Pino Lavarra has created a five-course dinner menu that reflects the traditions of the exclusive jewelry brand Damiani’s 90th Anniversary Collection. The menu starts with a 1930s-inspired appetizer. The flow of […]

An Insider’s Guided Tour of Middle Earth in New Zealand

May 18, 2022 1

This tiny village of picturesque homes and shops could be a quaint backwater somewhere in rural England or northern France. But we’re halfway around the world from them. As our tender from Seabourn Cruises’ Seabourn […]

Can this BVI Beach Really Claim to be The Ultimate?

March 6, 2024 Comments Off

The Ultimate Beach Day at Long Bay was a bold claim on the menu of shore excursions for the day Celebrity Ascent docked in Tortola. Could it really be the ultimate stretch of sand in […]

French Cuisine gets a Gala Showplace in Historic Lyon Landmark

October 24, 2019 Comments Off

Lyon’s long-awaited International City of Gastronomy is opening with a tasty promotion. Nestled in the oldest part of the newly renovated Grand Hôtel Dieu, this cultural institution will host events to promote the important role […]

Explora Journeys Celebrates Double Ship Milestones

September 7, 2023 Comments Off

While orders of new cruise ships have been in a lull recently, MSC Group is saying full speed ahead with its new Explora Journeys series of luxury ships. Just two months after the delivery of […]