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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 [...]
Caribbean

Oceania Reveals More of Sonata, Its Ship of the Future

Oceania Cruises is pulling back the curtain and opening bookings on Oceania Sonata, the first in a new class of ship it calls a New Era of Luxury at Sea. Set to debut in 2027, [...]

Many Moods of the Mekong River Revealed on AmaWaterways’ New Star

by Wallace Immen in AmaWaterways Comments Off on Many Moods of the Mekong River Revealed on AmaWaterways’ New Star

The ancient Mekong is a fascinatingly changeable river. Sometimes, the water looks as blue as the intense tropical sky. At other times it’s the muddy brown of the load of silt it carries from as [...]

Royal Caribbean’s Biggest Ever Named in Techno Champagne Style

November 13, 2016 Comments Off

When you’re celebrating the world’s biggest cruise ship, nothing small will do. The time-honored tradition of having a Godmother break a bottle of Champagne against the bow to bless the ship went bigger than magnum […]

Nobu’s Back on Relaunched Crystal Cruises

March 15, 2023 Comments Off

It will be back to the future when the relaunched Crystal Serenity and Crystal Symphony set sail for their inaugural seasons later this year. The range of restaurants will include popular UMI UMA by Nobu […]

A Date with Venus on the Incredible Italian Riviera

July 31, 2024 1

You can’t make up a place like Portovenere. Its confection of tall pastel-colored homes and ancient stone walls lining a sparkling blue harbor dedicated to Venus has inspired generations of romantic poets and artists. Visitors […]

American Queen Stops Churning in Bankruptcy

February 21, 2024 Comments Off

The lingering effects of the pandemic have claimed another victim. A storied American cruise company, American Queen Voyages made the unexpected decision to anchor all its ships and declare bankruptcy as its parent company was […]

MSC Celebrates Delivery of Greenest Ship Yet

May 31, 2023 1

MSC Cruises may still have only the third-largest cruise fleet in the world, but it keeps expanding in grand fashion. At a ceremony in France, the cruise division of MSC Group took delivery of its […]