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Asia

What Can We Learn from the Tragic End of an Odyssey?

What was sold as the “never-ending cruise” ceertainly ended in dramatic fashion, with residents told they had just a few hours to pack up and leave their homes at sea.The Villa Vie Odyssey, a residential [...]
Africa

Viking Plots a Journey Worthy of Pharoahs

Viking has opened bookings for a new 19-day Grand Nile Journey itinerary exploring ancient Egypt in unprecedented depth. The explorations in 2028 feature four hotel nights in Egypt’s capital and 14-night sailings between Cairo and [...]
Cruise Lines

Explora Rounding out its Family at a Half Dozen

Explora Journeys keeps innovating as its completes its planned fleet of six ships. The luxury cruise brand of MSC Group marked milestones in the building of the final ships in its fleet at a shipyard [...]
Cruise Lines

The More the Merroir in Dining on Seabourn

Seabourn is expanding its gourmet range with the launch of Earth & Ocean, a culinary philosophy to shape menus to the local “terroir and merroir ” of places its ships visit. What started with a series [...]
Cruise Lines

Norwegian Rings a Bella to Top its Prima Class

Norwegian Cruise Line has opened bookings for its sixth and final Prima-class ship, Norwegian Bella, due to debut with weeklong roundtrips from Barcelona in May, 2028.At 1,129 feet and accommodating 3,921 passengers double occupancy she’ll [...]

AmaWaterways’ Kristin Karst Shares the Dream and Details of AmaMagna

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AmaWaterways calls its innovative new ship, the AmaMagna, “a new destination on the Danube River.” Almost twice as wide as other European river cruise ships, it will have more of everything: larger suites, more dining [...]

View from the parapet of Reichsburg castle in Cochem, Germany

A Scenic Cruise up the Moselle Meets a Mysterious Defender

June 8, 2012 6

The contrast between the bustling and industrial Rhine and the idyllic Moselle River in Germany couldn’t be more stark. Overnight the Scenic Crystal has taken a right turn at Koblenz, Germany and up this […]

5 Must-Dos on Harmony of the Seas, the Biggest Cruise Ship Ever Built

November 16, 2016 1

Even two days into a cruise, guests on Harmony of the Seas still carry guide books and ask questions like “If I keep walking this way, will I get to the Boardwalk?” Royal Caribbean’s newest […]

Explora Rounding out its Family at a Half Dozen

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Explora Journeys keeps innovating as its completes its planned fleet of six ships. The luxury cruise brand of MSC Group marked milestones in the building of the final ships in its fleet at a shipyard […]

Could a Cruise Really Go on Forever?

March 24, 2025 1

It’s so easy to settle into a cruise that you might wonder: what would it be like to live at sea? Forget days, or even weeks. Cruise lines are planning voyages that last for two […]

Princess Taps into Puppet Silliness

October 22, 2019 Comments Off

Jim Henson’s Inspired Silliness–created by the legendary puppeteer and revived by The Jim Henson Company and director John Tartaglia–will entertain audiences of all ages onboard the new Sky Princess in 2019 and Enchanted Princess in […]