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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 [...]

Intimate Yacht Offers Safe Luxury Cruise Options

by Wallace Immen in Cruises Comments Off on Intimate Yacht Offers Safe Luxury Cruise Options

A new yacht is offering a highly personal adventure cruise. Kontiki Expeditions’ first expedition yacht Kontiki Wayra, features only nine luxury staterooms that offer the comfort of a small luxury hotel.It’s the first ship added [...]

Oceania’s Newest will Cruise Around the World in 180 Days

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Oceania Cruises is charting a 180-day round the world course for its newest ship Vista in 2026. One of the longest world cruises ever, the circumnavigation will visit 101 ports across 43 countries on a […]

Taking a Bow: The New Faces of the Next Generation of Cruise Ships

March 1, 2017 Comments Off

The designs of the next generation of cruise ships are taking bows to the past. The latest announcements of cruise ship orders signal that the blunt prows that were the favored design for ocean liners […]

Two large cruise ships docked offshore as a sunny tropical port comes to life with palm trees and colorful buildings along a promenade.

How Much Fun Can a Carnival Beach Handle?

July 1, 2026 Comments Off

The numbers are staggering. Carnival’s private Caribbean port Celebration Key can now dock four mega-ships a day and see over 13,000 guests a day hitting the beaches and attractions. Only open for a year, Carnival’s […]

Carnival Amping up Mardi Gras Fun

January 25, 2019 Comments Off

Carnival Cruise Line has revealed six unique zones in its new 20-deck Mardi Gras, launching in 2020. In addition to all the features found on other Carnival ships, there will be only-on Mardi Gras attractions, including: […]

Chef Bonacini to Mix it Up on Emerald Sakara Cruise

August 15, 2023 Comments Off

Emerald Cruises is again partnering with Canadian celebrity chef Michael Bonacini, for an eight-day Caribbean Culinary Journey aboard the newly launched, 100-passenger luxury yacht, Emerald Sakara. Sailing round trip out of San Juan on March […]