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Azamara Cruises

Split Decision: What’s The Dalmatian Coast’s Hottest Spot?

These massive walls have defended against centuries of conquests. Beautiful squares are filled with flowers, food and music. The medieval towns along the Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic have been the fantasy settings for the [...]
Cruises

Scenic Teams Up with Master Canadian Chefs

Canadian culinary stars Chefs Lynn Crawford and Lora Kirk are teaming up with Scenic Luxury Cruises & Tours for a culinary journey along Portugal’s Douro River. A Chef’s Culinary Adventure of Delightful Douro, sails round [...]
Asia

Oceania Wants You to Settle in for a Very Long Voyage

Oceania Cruises is stretching the definition of cruises to remarkable lengths. A new menu of options includes cruises that range from 31-day explorations to 180-day circumnavigations.Oceania’s fleet will be calling at more than 600 destinations [...]
Celebrity Beyond

Mystery Solved! Why Captain McCue Jumped Ship

Capt. Kate McCue is resigning from her role as captain at Four Seasons Yachts and intends to spend more time with her family. She shared the decision in an Instagram video in which she says [...]
Carnival Cruise Line

Think Cruising isn’t Sustainable? Carnival Begs to Differ

Carnival Corporation is defending the sustainability of cruising, saying not only has it met targets for cutting emissions early, it is raising its eco-friendly goals and will achieve them sooner. The world’s biggest cruise company, [...]

Electric Ship Designed for Pollution-free Cruising

by Wallace Immen in Cruises 3

There’s a green shift happening in exploration cruising and a new cruise company wants to lead the pack with an innovative electric ship. Norway has mandated a ban on fossil fuel-powered ships from its world-heritage [...]

Oceania Going Bigger in Alaska with Riviera

September 15, 2024 Comments Off

Oceania Cruises is offering an enhanced gourmet taste of the Last Frontier, sailing a bigger ship with more than a dozen immersive explorations in Alaska in 2025 The 1,250 guest Riviera is replacing the smaller […]

Subs Becoming the Must-Have Toys for Yachties and Expedition Cruises

April 2, 2018 Comments Off

James Bond had one. Every billionaire with a yacht aspires to one these days. And now you can join an elite corps of people who can take the plunge into the ocean depths in a […]

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 […]

5 Ways Holland America’s Enhancing Cuisine and Personal Explorations

March 8, 2018 Comments Off

No one has more experience navigating the world than Holland America Line. Celebrating its 145th year, the company is using that savvy to launch a new international Culinary Council to plan menus and experimenting with […]

Crystal Serenity’s Guests Discover Times Gone By in Casablanca

January 25, 2014 Comments Off

You must remember this…but it ain’t necessarily so. In the classic movie, Hollywood imagined Casablanca as a quaint village of whitewashed villas whose life seemed to revolve around a piano bar run by a dapper, worldly-wise […]