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Transcend Aims to Be the Go-To for Group Cruises

A sleek, dark blue ship with interiors by luxury yacht firm Tillberg Design of Sweden is about to start sailing on Europe’s rivers. Gorgeous, but you can’t just book a single cabin, you have to [...]
Atlas Ocean Voyages

Atlas Flipping the Globe for 2028 Arctic Cruises

Atlas Ocean Voyages, a line more identified with South Polar exploration, is setting sights North for a highly anticipated 2028 Arctic Season, featuring 13 newly curated journeys ranging from seven to 17 nights. Sailing aboard [...]
Canada

It’s Shaping Up as a Great Lakes Future

Cruisers choosing to stay close to home, repeat guests and smoother sailing have cruise lines planning a long future in the Great Lakes.Viking has just announced its 2028–2029 expedition voyages that include Great Lakes cruises [...]
Cruise Lines

MSC Gets Racier with Grand Prix Viewings

Leave it to MSC Cruises to create the ultimate pop-up event. It built a replica of its MSC Yacht Club “ship within a ship” to provide race fans a taste of the line’s seagoing hospitality.At [...]
Canada

Is This The Golden Moment for Great Lakes Cruises?

Victory Cruise Line is seeing a spike in new bookings for its Great Lakes cruises and owner John Waggoner knows why.“I hear it every day: There’s a stalemate in Middle East and the airlines are [...]

Confessions of an Enchanted Cruise Time Traveller

by Wallace Immen in Asia Comments Off on 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 [...]

Dining gets New Glamor on Seven Seas Grandeur

September 8, 2023 Comments Off

Guests aboard Seven Seas Grandeur will enjoy a choice of over 130 new dishes and guest favorites in seven dining venues. The ship that debuts in November is being reimagined for the future of cruising, […]

6 Tips for Chilling Out on Cruising’s Most Hectic Afternoon

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You must be tired after your trip here. But, smile, we need to take your photo. You need something from the suitcase you just left with the porters? Your bags will be delivered to your […]

8 Luxurious Dining Options Make Every Meal Special on Silver Muse

July 9, 2019 Comments Off

Prime steaks, Asian, Italian; a floor show or a quiet table for two? Whatever you’re in the mood for tonight, there’s a table waiting on Silversea Cruises’ flagship. Silver Muse breaks with tradition in its […]

Norwegian Prima Debuts With a New Level of Luxury

July 31, 2022 Comments Off

Norwegian Prima is making her debut, and heralding a new future for Norwegian Cruise Line. Fincantieri’s Marghera shipyard in Italy handed over the first in a new class of ships that offer a premium level […]

Silversea Goes More Exotic on Land

July 23, 2014 Comments Off

A two day bush-walking safari in Kenya’s Tsavo East National Park, a Gorilla Forest camp in Uganda and an overland journey to Jaipur and the Taj Mahal in India are a sampling of exotic new […]