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Oceania Cruises Charts a Year of Epic Grand Voyages
The World is Not Enough. Around the World in 180 Days is back, but that’s only the topper to a year that will see seven other epic grand voyages on Oceania Cruises ships from 50 […]
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Exclusive: Why Now is the Best Time Ever to Take a River Cruise
There has been a flood of questions from readers of The Cruisington Times about whether Americans and Canadians are welcome to sail aboard river cruises in Europe again. Who better to answer than Kristin Karst, […]
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AmaWaterways Newest River is the Ancient Nile
AmaWaterways has launched its newest ship AmaDahlia on an ancient, fascinating river—the Nile. Guests sailing the inaugural Secrets of Egypt & The Nile itinerary were joined by co-founders Rudi Schreiner and Kristin Karst for a […]
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Silver Spirit Visits Sinai: A Desert Far Beyond Expectations
Until we can once again cruise to exotic lands, we can dream. Here’s a story that was first posted in The Cruisington Times in 2011. Mount Sinai is timeless and many of the scenes on […]
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AmaWaterways’ Kristin Karst Shares the Dream and Details of AmaMagna
AmaWaterways calls its innovative new ship, the AmaMagna, “a new destination on the Danube River.” Almost twice as wide as other European river cruise ships, it will have more of everything: larger suites, more dining […]
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River Ships Target New Audiences and Cruise Less-Known Routes
From ships designed specifically for Millennials to new cruises on the Nile, the upper Mekong and the Zambezi River, there are no cookie cutter arrivals this year as the choices in river cruising keep expanding. […]
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5 Yacht-Like Indulgences that Make Silversea Cruises Unique Experiences
The Plate Police won—again. The service is so continual on Silversea Cruises that even at the lunch-time buffet on the Deck 7 terrace of Silver Wind, there’s regularly a waiter or two at the end of […]
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Crystal Serenity’s Guests Discover Times Gone By in Casablanca
You must remember this…but it ain’t necessarily so. In the classic movie, Hollywood imagined Casablanca as a quaint village of whitewashed villas whose life seemed to revolve around a piano bar run by a dapper, worldly-wise […]
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5 Trends to Keep in Mind When Planning Your Next Cruise
It seems you can’t go far these days without being told you should have a “bucket list” of things you need to experience before you kick it. But I prefer to think of travel as […]
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AmaWaterways Goes Wild with New Africa River Cruise
For those who don’t have an extremely detailed world atlas handy, the Chobe River in southwest Africa divides Namibia’s Caprivi Strip from Botswana’s Chobe National Park, and its banks boast one of the world’s densest […]