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Wait for it—Cruise Ships Getting Ordered 10 Years in Advance

Talk about ordering ahead. Two upscale cruise lines have just inked contracts for new ships not due to arrive for more than a decade. It’s the kind of optimism that comes from seeing record-breaking sales [...]
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 [...]

Robot bartending equipment on Quantum of the Seas

Don’t Panic! Robots Aren’t Ready to Take Over Cruise Ships–Yet

by Wallace Immen in Carnival Cruise Line Comments Off on Don’t Panic! Robots Aren’t Ready to Take Over Cruise Ships–Yet

Who would you rather have as your bartender on a cruise to Mars aboard Star Trek’s Enterprise: Guinan (as played by Whoopi Goldberg) or Mr. Data? There’s no contest in my mind that you’d choose the wise-cracking mixologist who [...]

How Oceania Cruises is about to Make Tahiti Hotter

June 26, 2024 1

Oceania Cruises is making the 2025 season in the South Pacific its most expansive yet. Two ships, Nautica and Regatta are plotting unique itineraries in fascinating corners of Tahiti during the winter and summer seasons. […]

MSC Cruises Teams up with LEGO

November 2, 2014 Comments Off

MSC Cruises and the LEGO Group are joining forces. The program being implemented across the fleet will give children as well as adults the chance to compete in LEGO themed contests and games. Kids who […]

Interpreting la Dolce Vita on a Costa Cruise

February 1, 2023 1

With the best pizza, pasta and coffee at sea and parties that last late into the night, cruising to exotic locales on Italy’s Costa Cruises is an immersion into European style, tastes and customs. It’s […]

Explora’s Largest Ship Yet Becomes Its Own Destination

February 2, 2026 0

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 […]

Scenic Tsar Turns Passengers’ Unexpected Free Day into a Party on the Volga

November 18, 2012 Comments Off

We’re dead in the water. And the ghosts seem to be rising as glimmering wisps of mist rise from the water all around us. Overnight the temperature has dropped and the cold damp air over […]