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Halfway to a Dream Fleet, Explora’s Ambitions Keep Growing

With three luxury ocean ships sailing and three more soon to come, Explora Journeys is looking beyond the horizons to even more experiences on the oceans and on Europe’s rivers. It’s a magical moment, Chris [...]
Asia

What Can We Learn from the Tragic End of an Odyssey?

What was sold as the “never-ending cruise” certainly ended in dramatic fashion–with residents told they had just a few hours to pack up and leave their homes at sea.The Villa Vie Odyssey, a residential cruise [...]
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 [...]

Beyond the Big 3 Ports on Mexico’s Pacific Riviera

by Wallace Immen in American Queen Voyages 1

Call it midnight blue, even at mid-day. Somehow the water on the Pacific coast of Mexico seems to come in darker hues than on Mexico’s more familiar Caribbean Gulf coasts. And as we head into [...]

Gresham Palace: A Grand Budapest Hotel with Four Seasons Flair

January 7, 2015 Comments Off

Boy am I glad my job isn’t being the glass cleaner at the Four Seasons Gresham Palace in Budapest. The hotel’s stunningly sensual Art Nouveau stained glass, crystal chandeliers and even the hand-made glazed tiles […]

There Won’t be Anything Stuffy about Meals on Virgin Voyages’ Scarlet Lady

November 8, 2018 Comments Off

Think Razzle Dazzle and Drag Brunches. Virgin Voyages’ approach to food will be as brash as the line’s founder, Sir Richard Branson. “There’s a Virgin twist on everything you’ll see aboard the Scarlet Lady, which means […]

Celebrity Beyond Propels Shows to New Heights

March 16, 2022 1

Celebrity Cruises has raised the curtain and brings down the house with new live shows and interactive experiences on Celebrity Beyond. A team of creators who have collaborated on major productions from Las Vegas and […]

New Hideaway Cruise Port Opens in Istanbul

October 2, 2021 Comments Off

If you’ve ever sailed to Istanbul, you know how chaotic and inaccessible the docks where cruise ships formerly tied up could be. The newly opened Galataport Istanbul aims to be a seamless cruise port, cultural […]

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 […]