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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, [...]

A Sneak Peek at Lindblad’s Endurance: a Ship Built to Explore Anywhere

by Wallace Immen in Alaska Comments Off on A Sneak Peek at Lindblad’s Endurance: a Ship Built to Explore Anywhere

Lindblad Expeditions radical new ship has got a unique hull design that will give guests a wraparound view of previously inaccessible areas of the world. That’s the promise Sven Lindblad, the company’s CEO and president [...]

Seabourn Passengers Meet the Horny, the Cuddly and the Weird in Norway

August 21, 2019 Comments Off

As if we didn’t need a reminder that things are different north of the Arctic Circle, our first sight as we got off Seabourn Ovation in the surprisingly bustling city of Tromso was a reindeer, […]

A Do it Yourself “On Your Own” Day in Florence

November 28, 2013 1

The abiding truth about Florence is that it’s a long journey inland from the cruise port of Livorno. That kept Firenze safe by being a day’s march inland for invaders, but let’s face it; the […]

Glass Terminal in Miami is a Sustainable Icon

January 31, 2022 Comments Off

Call it a pearl, call it a jewel, a glittering new terminal at the port of Miami is a landmark. The new Terminal B for Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. ships has also become the […]

Scenic yachts will seek out he exotic Caribbean--Scenic Group

Three Scenic Group Ships Will Luxuriate in the Caribbean

July 18, 2023 1

Scenic Group is planning a warm water fall season with three of its ocean-going yachts—Emerald Azzurra, Emerald Sakara and Scenic Eclipse II—island hopping in Caribbean. It’s a new destination for all three yachts, and there’s […]

What’s the wi-fi on Norwegian?

October 5, 2018 Comments Off

What’s the wi-fi? It’s one of the main concerns for millennials who account for about a quarter of all passengers of Norwegian Cruise Line. Tech-savvy guests are the company’s fastest growing segment. The new Cruise […]