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Halfway to a Dream Fleet, Explora’s Ambitions Keep Growing

With three luxury ocean ships sailing and three more soon to come, Explora Journeys is looking beyond the horizons to even more experiences on the oceans and on Europe’s rivers. It’s a magical moment, Chris [...]
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 [...]

Northwest Passage: Impossible Dream Becomes a Reality

by Wallace Immen in Alaska 1

Are you ready for an adventure that will make history? We’re about to sail across the top of the world, to explore the fabled Northwest Passage and set foot on places few people have ever [...]

Windstar’s Plotting Another Cruise to Mystery Ports

May 6, 2025 Comments Off

Where are we going? Your guess is as good as mine. A secret cruise to mystery ports has proved its appeal to guests of Windstar Cruises. An inaugural President’s Mystery Cruise on Star Legend in the […]

Norwegian Prima Premieres in New York

October 11, 2022 Comments Off

Norwegian Cruise Line’s newest ship Norwegian Prima made her debut in New York, along with a visit to Halifax, on the way to a premiere winter season sailing from Florida. The newest of NCL’s 18-ship […]

Taking the Plunge: Royal Caribbean Scuba Program is Unique and Fun

February 1, 2017 1

There’s a vastly fascinating part of the world most people have never explored: the unique and brilliantly colorful realm under the sea. It’s about to get a whole lot easier to visit the empire of […]

Azamara Cruises Gets a New Owner and Adds a New Ship

January 25, 2021 Comments Off

A company that’s taking over Azamara Cruises from Royal Caribbean, is wasting no time. It’s expanding the three-ship fleet with the addition of a former Love Boat, Pacific Princess. “Sycamore Partners has purchased the Pacific […]

Another Day, Another Gorgeous Beach on Star Flyer’s Costa Rica Voyage

March 10, 2013 Comments Off

They call them wet landings for good reason: You get your feet wet because there aren’t any docks along the beaches Star Flyer visited in a week sailing along Costa Rica’s Pacific coast. Coming in at […]