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The More the Merroir in Dining on Seabourn

Seabourn is expanding its gourmet range with the launch of Earth & Ocean, a culinary philosophy to shape menus to the local “terroir and merroir ” of places its ships visit. What started with a series [...]
Cruise Lines

Norwegian Rings a Bella to Top its Prima Class

Norwegian Cruise Line has opened bookings for its sixth and final Prima-class ship, Norwegian Bella, due to debut with weeklong roundtrips from Barcelona in May, 2028.At 1,129 feet and accommodating 3,921 passengers double occupancy she’ll [...]
Cruise Lines

Here’s Your Chance to Search for ET on a Cruise

Cultural expedition cruise specialist Swan Hellenic is planning six voyages featuring experts exploring the origins of planets, our Universe and the search for life beyond Earth. The 2027 Explore Space at Sea Series was created [...]
Carnival Cruise Line

Fleet Shuffles Will Grow HAL and Shrink Cunard

It’s not just deck chairs, Carnival Corp. is rearranging its fleets. Holland America Line will see its lineup grow to 12 ships with the addition of P&O Cruises’ ship Arcadia. At the same time, Cunard [...]
AmaWaterways

Lessons Learned from Europe’s Low Water Crisis

After a summer of historic drought in Europe, river cruising is still facing unprecedented stress. Water levels across several sections of the Danube remain critically low and have not recovered sufficiently to restore normal navigation, [...]

5 Ways Holland America’s Enhancing Cuisine and Personal Explorations

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No one has more experience navigating the world than Holland America Line. Celebrating its 145th year, the company is using that savvy to launch a new international Culinary Council to plan menus and experimenting with [...]

MSC Reveals Plans for Luxury Explora Journeys Fleet

June 15, 2021 Comments Off

As competing lines build exploration ships that carry just a few hundred, MSC Group plans to go big, building a fleet of 14-deck luxury ships that carry 1,000. At a ceremony for the steel-cutting for […]

Regent’s Dramatic New Ship Celebrates Past and Future

May 12, 2025 Comments Off

They call the atrium Starlight and its design swirls into the heavens. Regent Seven Seas Cruises is taking inspiration from the past and looking to the future with the showy interiors of its newest ship […]

There Won’t be Anything Stuffy about Meals on Virgin Voyages’ Scarlet Lady

November 8, 2018 Comments Off

Think Razzle Dazzle and Drag Brunches. Virgin Voyages’ approach to food will be as brash as the line’s founder, Sir Richard Branson. “There’s a Virgin twist on everything you’ll see aboard the Scarlet Lady, which means […]

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 […]

How a Cadet Rose to Captain on Star Clippers

February 24, 2026 Comments Off

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 […]