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MSC Gets Racier with Grand Prix Viewings

Leave it to MSC Cruises to create the ultimate pop-up event. It built a replica of its MSC Yacht Club “ship within a ship” to provide race fans a taste of the line’s seagoing hospitality.At [...]
Canada

Is This The Golden Moment for Great Lakes Cruises?

Victory Cruise Line is seeing a spike in new bookings for its Great Lakes cruises and owner John Waggoner knows why.“I hear it every day: There’s a stalemate in Middle East and the airlines are [...]
Destinations

Oceania Crafting a Ship Dedicated to Long Voyages

Oceania Cruises will re-launch a ship as its dedicated world cruiser after a renovation designed to make it feel like a “home at sea.” Oceania Aurelia will be the new name of Nautica, a ship [...]
Cruises

Wind Star Reborn After 40 Years Under Sail

The yacht that started it all has a fresh new look. When Windstar Cruises 148-guest Wind Star debuted 40 years ago, she helped pioneer a new kind of cruising, with automated sails, an intimate scale, [...]
Cruise Lines

Holland America Investing in Sweeping Fleet Upgrades

Building on record performance, Holland America Line plans a $500-million investment to reimagine six ships. Holland America Evolution is the most ambitious guest experience update in the company’s 153-year history, to deliver a comprehensive bow-to-stern [...]

Is Crystal Still a Top Choice for Cruise Cuisine?

by Wallace Immen in Abercrombie & Kent 1

Let’s put it this way: if Waterside restaurant on Crystal Symphony was ashore, you wouldn’t be able to get a reservation even weeks in advance. Seriously. It’s that good. The menus are so varied, the presentations [...]

What’s the Deal? Is Bimini for Real as a Cruise Port?

February 15, 2022 1

The last time most of us heard of Bimini was reading Ernest Hemingway’s accounts of sailing to the Bahamian island in a boat called Pilar in the 1930s to match wits against big fish. But […]

Azamara Cruises Gets a New Owner and Adds a New Ship

January 25, 2021 Comments Off

A company that’s taking over Azamara Cruises from Royal Caribbean, is wasting no time. It’s expanding the three-ship fleet with the addition of a former Love Boat, Pacific Princess. “Sycamore Partners has purchased the Pacific […]

6 Keys to Taming Long-Haul Jet Lag on a Cathay Pacific Flight to Asia

April 30, 2015 Comments Off

Amazing: I was able to sleep in an economy class seat for a good part of a 14-hour flight to Hong Kong. It’s something I’ve never been able to do in coach class in 30 […]

Full Silver Moon: A Silversea Sister with Her Own Personality

July 28, 2021 1

Silver Moon has been officially christened as the ninth vessel in the ultra-luxury Silversea Cruises fleet and is sailing in the Greek Isles this summer. In a ceremony in Athens, godmother Gaia Gaja made the […]

It’s Official: Silver Muse Sets Sail

April 20, 2017 Comments Off

The long-awaited Silver Muse is officially in service after a celebration in Monaco with royalty and VIPs on April 20. The christening was hosted by Silversea chairman Manfredi Lefebvre d’Ovidio and the ceremony featured performances […]