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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 [...]
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 [...]

Prospecting for Truth and Gold in Skagway’s Lair of Liars

by Wallace Immen in Cruise Lines 1

So call me a liar. Not me personally, thank you, but I am part of the second oldest profession—journalism. And my craft has had more than its share of fibbers, as I discovered on my [...]

5 Tips for Picking the Cruise Cabin Right for You as Choices Multiply

February 15, 2017 Comments Off

There were once such simple rules for choosing a cabin on a ship: port out– starboard home, the higher the deck, the better the class of service. And the more you spent, the bigger the […]

New Shows Enhance Regent’s Seven Seas Grandeur

September 29, 2023 Comments Off

To highlight the launch of its trend-setting new ship, Regent Seven Seas Cruises revealed four innovative entertainment shows that will debut on Seven Seas Grandeur launching in November 2023. The new productions celebrate the legacy […]

AmaCerto Guests Enter a Horse-Drawn Time Warp in Old Vienna

January 3, 2014 Comments Off

“Wurden sie gerne eine Kutschfahrt?” No, that’s not as rude as it sounds. The driver was just asking us if we would like to take a carriage ride. At the cab ranks around the main squares in […]

10 Tips for Coping When Unexpected Chaos Hits Your Travels

July 9, 2015 Comments Off

You’ve come here for a carefree week in the sun. But the newspaper headlines are five inches tall, there are long lineups at banks and store shelves are looking bare. And by the way, your […]

The Wright Thing to Do on Victory Cruises

May 19, 2025 Comments Off

Small ship Great Lakes cruise company Victory Cruise Lines is partnering with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation for educational tours of the architect’s works in Chicago, Detroit and Muskegon. Guests embarking on a Great Lakes […]