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Silversea Sweetens the Benefits for Top Suites

Silversea Cruises is organizing its suites into four categories, including one described as Residences. And the top categories are getting new perks on top of Silversea’s existing inclusions, such as butler service, 24-hour in-suite dining, [...]
Celestyal Cruises

Middle East is Erased from Cruise Maps for Years

Cruises lines are now expecting the Persian Gulf is going to be a no-go zone for a long, long time. Explora Journeys has just scratched 2028 Middle East itineraries for two of its ships. They [...]
Costa Cruises

Margaritaville’s Adding a Texas Twang

There’s no stopping the party for Margaritaville at Sea cruise line. It’s adding a third ship to the fleet and launching service from Texas. Beachcomber will sail from Galveston beginning in October, 2027 on four- [...]
Asia

SeaDream is Finally Building a New Luxury Yacht

Sea Dream Yacht Club is ordering a new ultra-luxury ship that can take 200 guests around the world. It’s been a long time coming for the 25-year-old boutique ultra-luxury cruise line ,whose two ships carry [...]
Caribbean

Life Under Sail Just Got More Adventurous

There are quicker ways to cruise, but there’s nothing more romantic and intimaate than doing it the timeless way, under thousands of square feet of billowing sails. And two cruise lines that specialize in sailing [...]

Crystal Serenity’s Guests Discover Times Gone By in Casablanca

by Wallace Immen in Africa Comments Off on Crystal Serenity’s Guests Discover Times Gone By in Casablanca

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 [...]

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 […]

What’s the Deal? Is Bimini for Real as a Cruise Port?

February 15, 2022 1

The last time most of us heard of Bimini was reading Ernest Hemingway’s accounts of sailing to the Bahamian island in a boat called Pilar in the 1930s to match wits against big fish. But […]

Disney Adds Exotic Caribbean Ports

October 28, 2014 Comments Off

Disney Cruise Line will introduce two exotic Caribbean destinations — Tortola, the capital of the British Virgin Islands, and the French island of Martinique into its lineup of cruise ports in 2016. And that will […]

An Awakened Sleeping Beauty Awes Guests on AmaWaterways Tour

March 16, 2014 Comments Off

The town was once derided as Cesky Crumbling, but today it can truly be described as a Czech charmer whose homes that can date back to the 15th century have been beautifully restored. Ancient eyes […]

6 Tips for Taking an Uplifting Plunge at Budapest’s Most Famous Spa

June 12, 2018 Comments Off

It’s not just warm water, it’s an opportunity to connect with the revitalizing essence of the Earth. After a couple of hours soaking in the mineral-rich springs of the Szechenyi Baths in Budapest my whole […]