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Alaska

Why a 15-year Alaskan Dream Ended So Suddenly

A small, niche cruise line sailing in Southeast Alaska has called it quits. “Effective immediately, Alaskan Dream Cruises has ceased business operations and will no longer be operating future sailings,” the cruise line announced on [...]
Alaska

Explora’s Largest Ship Yet Becomes Its Own Destination

Explora Journeys calls Explora III a destination in her own right. And she’s launching ahead of schedule in July, 2026 with a naming ceremony in Barcelona Aug. 1. Longer and with expanded public space compared [...]
Austria

Celebrity Plans to Flood Europe with River Cruises

Make that 20! Celebrity River Cruises has announced a commitment for 10 more new ships that will expand its European river cruise fleet to 20 vessels by 2031. All this while construction of the first [...]
Cruise Lines

Designing New Worlds— Like Home, Only Better

If you were creating a spaceship to explore distant planets, you’d want it to be designed by people who build cruise ships. They’re self-sufficient floating worlds that imaginative designers create as unique, welcoming environments. In [...]
Cruise Lines

Every Space Tells a Story: Designing a Floating World

Think of cruise ships as planets. They’re self-sufficient floating worlds that imaginative designers create into unique environments. Read the first part of this exclusive story here. In this second part of an interview with Wallace [...]

Uniworld Widens its World Sale

by Wallace Immen in News Comments Off on Uniworld Widens its World Sale

Uniworld Boutique River Cruise Collection and U by Uniworld have added over 80 more dates and reduced fares on select 2019 voyages for new bookings made now through March 31, 2019. As well, a previously [...]

Two crew members on river ship Scenic Tsar aka Alexander Grin

Russian Grin: A Traditional Welcome as We Board the Scenic Tsar

October 9, 2012 1

I’ve been welcomed aboard many a ship, but seldom with such simple grace as the greeting from the crew of Scenic Tsar at a rural dock in Moscow. The port is in the middle of […]

Can this BVI Beach Really Claim to be The Ultimate?

March 6, 2024 Comments Off

The Ultimate Beach Day at Long Bay was a bold claim on the menu of shore excursions for the day Celebrity Ascent docked in Tortola. Could it really be the ultimate stretch of sand in […]

Pre/Post Cruise: Finding Calm in Buzzing Bangkok

July 11, 2011 Comments Off

In Bangkok, there always seems to be a buzz. The roads teem with motorcycles and un-mufflered three-wheeled cabs known as tuk-tuks. On the river, “longtail” boats get their push from growling V-8 engines that are […]

Lufthansa Puts German Engineering into New Premium Economy

March 25, 2014 Comments Off

Lufthansa German Airlines is putting German engineering to the development of new Premium Economy seats. They’ll be wider and provide greater privacy, as well as approximately 3.9 inches of more room on the side because each […]

Scenic yachts will seek out he exotic Caribbean--Scenic Group

Three Scenic Group Ships Will Luxuriate in the Caribbean

July 18, 2023 1

Scenic Group is planning a warm water fall season with three of its ocean-going yachts—Emerald Azzurra, Emerald Sakara and Scenic Eclipse II—island hopping in Caribbean. It’s a new destination for all three yachts, and there’s […]