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Asia

What Can We Learn from the End of an Odyssey?

What was sold as the “never-ending cruise” ended in dramatic fashion, with residents told they had just a few hours to pack up and leave their home.Details are still scarce about why the Villa Vie [...]
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 [...]
Cruise Lines

Norwegian Rings a Bella to Top its Prima Class

Norwegian Cruise Line has opened bookings for its sixth and final Prima-class ship, Norwegian Bella, due to debut with weeklong roundtrips from Barcelona in May, 2028.At 1,129 feet and accommodating 3,921 passengers double occupancy she’ll [...]

Hurtigruten has Unique Nordic Ways to Translate Cruising into Exploration

by Wallace Immen in Canada Comments Off on Hurtigruten has Unique Nordic Ways to Translate Cruising into Exploration

The Fram splashes its adventurous ambitions on its hull: Antarctica, Spitsbergen, Norway; penguins, whales, glaciers, Northern Lights. Amid a current rush by many cruise lines to build expedition cruise ships, Norway’s Hurtigruten wants to remind [...]

Holland America Tour Follows Footsteps of The Godfather

September 10, 2011 Comments Off

Godfather, how much of what I’ve seen in the films is real? What they show about the old country, where the Family came from, does it really exist? On a port call of Holland America […]

New Ship to Explore Peru’s Amazon in Style

April 17, 2024 Comments Off

A new riverboat described as a floating boutique hotel will start exploring the Amazon in 2025 as Abercrombie & Kent’s first South American ship. Featuring 10 double cabins and two single cabins, the as-yet unnamed […]

Twiggy is Emerald’s Godmother

March 6, 2014 Comments Off

Iconic supermodel Twiggy will be the godmother of two ships being launched by Europe’s newest river cruise company, Emerald Waterways. Like Twiggy, the ships are sleek, stylish and trend setting, the company says. The new […]

Bartender Daniel Zanoga is a showman on Carnival Sunshine

Carnival Sunshine’s Wizard of Mixology Teaches a Hands-on Course in Bar Alchemy

August 6, 2013 1

Looking to get more out of a drink than just a buzz? My friends, on Carnival Sunshine you’ll get not only a lift but a show and a lesson in wizardry at the Alchemy Bar. You’re about […]

The Wright Thing to Do on Victory Cruises

May 19, 2025 Comments Off

Small ship Great Lakes cruise company Victory Cruise Lines is partnering with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation for educational tours of the architect’s works in Chicago, Detroit and Muskegon. Guests embarking on a Great Lakes […]