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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, [...]

Upside Down Over the Sea on MSC’s Robotron

by Wallace Immen in Cruise Lines Comments Off on Upside Down Over the Sea on MSC’s Robotron

MSC Cruises stunning new thrill ride will take guests over the edge of the ship and flip them upside down. Robotron on the new flagship MSC Seascape is a robotic arm that seats three guests [...]

On Carnival Liberty: Getting Wild About Harry’s

February 4, 2012 Comments Off

Arrive hungry, advises a sign at the entrance to Harry’s, the alternative steak house on Carnival Liberty. And that turns out to be exceptionally good advice — because there’s not a chance you’ll leave […]

Disney Cruises to Reimagine a Giant New Ship

November 17, 2022 1

Disney Cruise Line has acquired a ship that will be among the largest in the world. The Walt Disney Co. became the highest bidder for the Global Dream, that was left half built when Genting […]

6 Ways Vista Ups the Fun Quotient on Carnival’s Biggest Ship Yet

May 26, 2016 1

The floor is packed with ladies who can’t help but get up and salsa to the band’s infectious Cuban beat, while half a dozen bartenders muddle mojitos and dance as they decorate daiquiris. The Havana Bar on […]

Cruise Lines

Twins Will Expand Princess Family and Add to Record Cruise Ship Orders

March 27, 2019 Comments Off

A new order for two next-generation ships makes Princess Cruises the fastest-growing line in the premium cruise market and adds to an unprecedented roster of over 100 cruise ships due to debut in coming years. […]

Round the World on $10 a day? Yes, but Cruising is a Better Deal Today

January 4, 2017 Comments Off

A World Cruise for $10 a day! Sounds incredible but it was true—at the dawn of modern cruising 90 years ago. Europe was finally pulling itself back together from the devastation of the War to […]