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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 [...]

Northwest Passage: an Ultimate Experience on Ship and Shore

November 2, 2023 1

Everything moves more slowly in Arctic. The seasons are condensed in Canada’s far north as nature takes advantage of a few fleeting months of light and hibernates in the long dark months. There’s a timelessness […]

Sel de Mer restaurant on Holland America

Dining Your Way! Savor the Newest and Tastiest Restaurants at Sea

December 14, 2016 Comments Off

What are you in the mood for tonight? Perhaps a steakhouse with a French bistro flair, or a pick a catch of the day and have it prepared your way? Or perhaps a sushi place with […]

Arles Artistry: Experiencing a City Through van Gogh’s Eyes

January 19, 2022 1

If there’s an upside to the continuing uncertainly about travel it’s that you can see normally touristy places like a local. On a late fall cruise in France, we have the normally busy streets of […]

Carnival Amping up Mardi Gras Fun

January 25, 2019 Comments Off

Carnival Cruise Line has revealed six unique zones in its new 20-deck Mardi Gras, launching in 2020. In addition to all the features found on other Carnival ships, there will be only-on Mardi Gras attractions, including: […]

‘Vista’s Sista’ Makes Waves

May 20, 2016 Comments Off

It’s amazing just how quickly a section of a cruise ship the size of an apartment building can slide down the skids from a dry dock into its new watery home. With a mighty roar, […]