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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 [...]
Caribbean

Oceania Reveals More of Sonata, Its Ship of the Future

Oceania Cruises is pulling back the curtain and opening bookings on Oceania Sonata, the first in a new class of ship it calls a New Era of Luxury at Sea. Set to debut in 2027, [...]

Un-Cruise Plans Galápagos Adventures

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Un-Cruise Adventures is making its first foray into Ecuador with eight cruises in the Galápagos Islands including stays in the historic city of Quito planned in 2016. A nine-night Unequaled Ecuador! adventure begins with a two-night [...]

Why You’ll Want to Become a Star Seeker with Windstar

November 9, 2025 Comments Off

Think of cruise ships as planets. In an ongoing series, Designing New Worlds, The Cruisington Times explores behind the scenes as ingenious designers create self-sufficient floating worlds. Windstar’s first new ship in a decade, Star […]

It’s a Luxury Yacht Race as Aman Heads to Sea

March 13, 2024 Comments Off

Top luxury hospitality group Aman is joining other luxury resort brands in heading out to sea. A steel cutting ceremony in Genoa, Italy marked the start of construction of the luxury motor yacht Aman at […]

The Ups and Downs of Funky Funchal on a Crystal Cruises Tour

December 16, 2013 Comments Off

So let me get this straight: two skinny guys are going to steer us safely down that steep hill on this makeshift toboggan? They look a lot like gondoliers in Venice with their jaunty straw […]

5 Factors to Weigh in the Battle of the New Caribbean Behemoths

September 9, 2015 Comments Off

Two heavyweight contenders are going head-to-head for the title of the biggest, latest, more-of- everything cruise ship in the Caribbean. They come from familiar families, but these newcomers boast they pack more punch than any that […]

L’Hotel: The Ultra-Romantic Paris Apartment of Your Wildest Dreams

September 10, 2019 Comments Off

Everything in moderation, even moderation. Oscar Wilde said it first, and it’s still true at an opulent jewel box of a hotel tucked away on a quiet side street on Paris’ Left Bank. In a city that […]