The Cruisington Times The Cruisington Times A feast of tantalizing travel ideas, sights, reviews, links

Cruise Lines

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 [...]

Confessions of an Enchanted Cruise Time Traveller

by Wallace Immen in Asia Comments Off on Confessions of an Enchanted Cruise Time Traveller

What if every other day was 25 hours long? What if you could make an entire day vanish–or jump from one year to the next and back again? And what if you could fly home [...]

Lindblad Goes All-In

March 16, 2017 Comments Off

Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic has announced that from April 2017, guests’ bar tabs and crew gratuities will be complimentary on all departures of National Geographic Explorer and National Geographic Orion, effectively creating all-inclusive pricing. There are […]

5 Reasons to Bring the Olympic Games Back to Their Source

May 26, 2026 Comments Off

The brochures for s Celebrity Cruises shore excursion in Katakolon, Greece say it’s an opportunity to re-live what it was like to participate in the ancient Olympiade. Well not exactly re-live it, because the athletes then did […]

California Port Discourages Visits by Cruise Ships

February 22, 2023 1

Hoping to persuade cruise lines decide to anchor elsewhere, the city council in Monterey, California has voted to take away city services for handling passengers arriving at the city’s dock. In a report to the […]

Food Trucks and Calypso at Carnival’s Celebration Key

October 7, 2024 1

Food trucks and snack shacks will join four sit-down restaurants and 12 bars on Celebration Key, Carnival Cruise Line’s new private beach destination on Grand Bahama opening in July, 2025. Guests will find a variety […]

AmaWaterways Expands Soulful Experiences

November 7, 2023 Comments Off

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 […]