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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 [...]

Record-breaking Astronaut Christens Scenic Eclipse II

by Wallace Immen in Cruise Lines 1

A ship designed for exploration of the seas was christened by the first woman to walk in space. Accompanied by Scenic Group owners Glen and Karen Moroney, NASA Astronaut Dr. Kathryn Sullivan christened one of [...]

Many Moods of the Mekong River Revealed on AmaWaterways’ New Star

April 18, 2017 Comments Off

The ancient Mekong is a fascinatingly changeable river. Sometimes, the water looks as blue as the intense tropical sky. At other times it’s the muddy brown of the load of silt it carries from as […]

Arcadia sails for P&O in Australia--Carnival Corp.

Fleet Shuffles Will Grow HAL and Shrink Cunard

October 6, 2026 0

It’s not just deck chairs, Carnival Corp. is rearranging its fleets. Holland America Line will see its lineup grow to 12 ships with the addition of P&O Cruises’ ship Arcadia. At the same time, Cunard […]

White Pass & Yukon train to Skagway, Alaska

Hairpin Turns and Bottomless Valleys on a Day Trip to the Klondike

June 28, 2014 Comments Off

You’ve got to hand it to people who have a vision about how to make a fortune. As thousands of world-be prospectors set out from Skagway, Alaska, across the rugged mountains to the Yukon in […]

Deneuve is Godmother of S.S. Catherine

March 15, 2014 Comments Off

Elegant French actress Catherine Deneuve is the godmother and namesake of Uniworld Boutique River Cruise Collection’s newest ship, S.S. Catherine The ship is entering service on the popular Burgundy and Provence and Grand France itineraries […]

Ritz-Carlton Ramps Up for Coming Superyachts

May 21, 2024 Comments Off

Ilma is the Maltese word for water, and the name of the newest superyacht in The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, which just proved her prowess at sea. The second ship in the Ritz-Carlton fleet has completed […]