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Carnival Cruise Line

Fleet Shuffles Will Grow HAL and Shrink Cunard

It’s not just deck chairs, Carnival Corp. is rearranging its fleets. Holland America Line will see its lineup grow to 12 ships with the addition of P&O Cruises’ ship Arcadia. At the same time, Cunard [...]
AmaWaterways

Lessons Learned from Europe’s Low Water Crisis

After a summer of historic drought in Europe, river cruising is still facing unprecedented stress. Water levels across several sections of the Danube remain critically low and have not recovered sufficiently to restore normal navigation, [...]
Caribbean

Watch a New Ship Being Born—MSC World Atlantic

MSC Cruises next flagship, MSC World Atlantic reached a milestone as the ship touched water for the first time at Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France. The float out marks an important stage in [...]
Cruises

Is it Time to Dip Your Toes in the Ganges?

You’ve cruised the Rhine, the Danube and the Seine. Now it may be time to do something extraordinary and explore rivers in India with thousands of years in history. Scenic Cruises– better known for ocean [...]
Aman at Sea

Are $7,000 a Night Cruises Sustainable?

Ritz-Carlton, Four Seasons, Orient Express, Aman Resorts. Luxury hotel chains seem to have all decided at once to put their oars in the water with new small ships that promise the ultimate in comfort and [...]

Norwegian’s New Harvest Caye: An Island You Can Call Your Own

by Wallace Immen in Caribbean Comments Off on Norwegian’s New Harvest Caye: An Island You Can Call Your Own

Think you’ve got a problem finding a parking space? Try figuring out where to tie up a cruise ship as long as a football field at a popular Caribbean island and then finding beach space [...]

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 […]

Bloaters and Bouillon: Sampling Menus from Cruising’s Fabled Age

December 27, 2017 Comments Off

Modern cruise ships are adding restaurants that compete with the best on land. But there was a time when shipboard meals were feedings announced with a chime and you’d better be at the table on […]

Victory’s Splash Launches Great Lakes Cruising

April 28, 2025 Comments Off

While Champagne’s traditional, it was premium Canadian whisky anointing the Great Lakes cruise ship Victory 1. In a christening ceremony at the Port of Toronto, Godmother Emily Coleman broke a bottle across the bow of […]

L’Hotel: The Ultra-Romantic Paris Apartment of Your Wildest Dreams

September 10, 2019 Comments Off

Everything in moderation, even moderation. Oscar Wilde said it first, and it’s still true at an opulent jewel box of a hotel tucked away on a quiet side street on Paris’ Left Bank. In a city that […]

Discovering Antigua, Where the 21st Century Hits a Time Warp

January 1, 2013 Comments Off

As our ship docked on the island of Antigua, it seemed a lot of locals had lined to greet the ship’s call on the island. But it turned out the commotion wasn’t for us. The […]