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Better Watch Out Santa: We’re Coming to Visit You at the Pole

March 25, 2024 Wallace Immen 1

Ho, ho, ho, who wouldn’t go? An 18-night icebreaking voyage all the way to the North Pole in July is among Abercrombie & Kent’s  innovative new small-ship expeditions for 2024. There will be a cocktail […]

Africa

AmaWaterways Expands Soulful Experiences

November 7, 2023 Wallace Immen Comments Off on AmaWaterways Expands Soulful Experiences

AmaWaterways is expanding on a well-received inaugural season of Soulful Experiences, river and land packages celebrating Black history and culture along the rivers its ships sail. The luxury river cruise line announced a new addition […]

Africa

Exclusive: Why Now is the Best Time Ever to Take a River Cruise

October 19, 2021 Wallace Immen 1

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, […]

Africa

AmaWaterways Newest River is the Ancient Nile

September 13, 2021 Wallace Immen Comments Off on 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 […]

Africa

Silver Spirit Visits Sinai: A Desert Far Beyond Expectations

August 26, 2020 Wallace Immen 2

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 […]

AmaMagna
Africa

AmaWaterways’ Kristin Karst Shares the Dream and Details of AmaMagna

May 1, 2018 Wallace Immen Comments Off on 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 […]

Avalon Siem Reap
Africa

River Ships Target New Audiences and Cruise Less-Known Routes

January 30, 2018 Wallace Immen 1

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. […]

Terrace cafe on Silver Wind
10 Best Lists

5 Yacht-Like Indulgences that Make Silversea Cruises Unique Experiences

May 28, 2015 Wallace Immen 4

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 […]

Coastline of Casablanca
Africa

Crystal Serenity’s Guests Discover Times Gone By in Casablanca

January 25, 2014 Wallace Immen Comments Off on 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 […]

Bagan Myanmar
10 Best Lists

5 Trends to Keep in Mind When Planning Your Next Cruise

January 9, 2014 Wallace Immen Comments Off on 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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