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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 [...]

On Carnival Liberty: Can You Have Too Much Fun?

by Wallace Immen in Caribbean Comments Off on On Carnival Liberty: Can You Have Too Much Fun?

By WALLACE IMMEN Where to start? There’s dodgeball, boot camp exercises, Latin dance class, a free-throw contest, temporary tattoos, movie trivia, sports trivia. Or there are diagnoses based on looking at your tongue, or mixing [...]

Fun With Food: 8 Innovations on Holland America’s Nieuw Statendam

February 6, 2019 Comments Off

It may not be polite to play with your food, but at Rudi’s Sel de Mer, the plates are wonderfully playful. The chargers at every table are decorated with whimsical portraits created from vegetables, fruits […]

She’ll be an Enchanted Princess

November 5, 2018 Comments Off

Princess Cruises has unveiled details of the debut of the Enchanted Princess, destined to make her debut in June, 2020. The sister ship to Sky Princess, which will launch in 2019, Enchanted Princess will have […]

How Atlas Ocean is Pairing up with Penguins

June 7, 2024 Comments Off

Yacht expedition specialist Atlas Ocean Voyages is pairing up with the Global Penguin Society, an internationally recognized organization dedicated to the conservation of the world´s penguin species and the oceans they inhabit. Available on select […]

Lindblad Offering Fly-Direct Antarctic Cruises

January 9, 2024 Comments Off

While everyone has dreamed of visiting the penguins and experiencing the otherworldly landscapes of Antarctica, cruising there from South America across the unpredictable the Drake Passage for two days can sometimes be less than dreamy. […]

California Port Discourages Visits by Cruise Ships

February 22, 2023 1

Hoping to persuade cruise lines decide to anchor elsewhere, the city council in Monterey, California has voted to take away city services for handling passengers arriving at the city’s dock. In a report to the […]