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Cruise Lines

Scenic Adding 3 More Ships to Growing Fleet

Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Scenic Group has announced another fleet expansion, with three new luxury river ships to join its award-winning portfolio. This includes one new Emerald Star-Ship and two ultra-luxury Scenic Space-Ships, extending their [...]
AmaWaterways

Cruises Get Caught as the Gulf Conflict Spreads

With the Middle East conflict spreading at an epidemic rate, cruise lines are scrambling to avoid disruption and planning far ahead to steer clear of an epic storm. Some were caught in the crosshairs. Three [...]
Celebrity Cruises

Classic Celebrity Takes the Stage With a New Look

Celebrity Cruises is showcasing the bow to stern upgrades of its four Solstice Series ships in a $250-million modernization program. Guests on Celebrity Solstice will find eight new experiences, including four completely new public spaces, and many [...]
Asia

Confessions of an Enchanted Cruise Time Traveller

What if every other day was 25 hours long? What if you could make an entire day vanish–or jump from one year to the next and back again? And what if you could fly home [...]
Cruises

How a Cadet Rose to Captain on Star Clippers

Eleven years after joining Star Clippers as a deck cadet, 36-year-old Vadim Novikov has become the youngest commanding officer in the sail cruise company’s history. As captain of Star Flyer, Novikov will oversee ship operations [...]

Christie Brinkley now a Godmother

by Wallace Immen in News Comments Off on Christie Brinkley now a Godmother

Regent Seven Seas Cruises has chosen famed actress and successful entrepreneur Christie Brinkley as godmother to Seven Seas Splendor. She will christen the ship with 542 crew caring for 750 guests in Miami on February 21, [...]

Carnival Transforming ex-Costa Ships to American Tastes

February 22, 2023 Comments Off

What does it take to turn a ship designed for European tastes into a ship that feels like home for a mainly American crowd? Everything from new electrical sockets to burgers and pizza needed a […]

AmaWaterways Fleet Growing Again

April 11, 2019 Comments Off

She’ll be called AmaSiena and the new ship added to AmaWaterways fleet in July, 2020 will sail a wide range of itineraries along the Rhine, Main, Moselle and Danube rivers. A sister of AmaLea and […]

Seeing Brittany Like a Local: 5 Tastes of France In The Off Season

March 3, 2016 Comments Off

In February, the French town of La Baule with its castle-like hotels and grandly ornate stone homes looks like a fairy tale ghost town. In a sense it is. When the season is over as […]

Ducking Out of Dubrovnik on a Unique Holland America Tour

August 29, 2011 2

The marble streets of Dubrovnik have been polished to a gleaming smoothness by the millions of feet that have walked over them. And on a typical morning in tourist season, it can seem like all […]

Discovering an Adventurous New Galaxy of Intimate Ships

January 5, 2026 Comments Off

It seems everyone got the same idea at the same time: there’s an untapped demand for a small ship that can explore the far corners of the globe in the luxury you expect at the […]