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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 [...]
Caribbean

Oceania Reveals More of Sonata, Its Ship of the Future

Oceania Cruises is pulling back the curtain and opening bookings on Oceania Sonata, the first in a new class of ship it calls a New Era of Luxury at Sea. Set to debut in 2027, [...]

2 Ships Charting a New Era of Stylish Galapagos Islands Exploration

by Wallace Immen in Celebrity Cruises Comments Off on 2 Ships Charting a New Era of Stylish Galapagos Islands Exploration

They’re small and rugged adventurers, purpose-built to protect the delicate ecology of Ecuador’s unique Galapagos Islands. And with the elegance and service of their parent lines, they’re about to open a new chapter of luxury [...]

Women Take Charge on Celebrity Edge

November 19, 2019 Comments Off

A mere 2 per cent of ship’s officers are women, but not at Celebrity Cruises. The line that made history hiring the first female American captain, Kate McCue is about to have its first ship […]

Russia and Ukraine Ports Cancelled Due to Invasion

February 25, 2022 1

Not surprisingly, cruise lines are all navigating away from Russia on planned Baltic itineraries and ports in Ukraine on Black Sea voyages. Within hours of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Atlas Ocean Voyages […]

Florida’s Port Competition Keeps Heating Up

April 28, 2025 Comments Off

Who’s number one? It depends who you ask as Florida’s big cruise ports keep going for records. Greater Miami and Miami Beach have just branded the city the Cruise Capital of the World to celebrate […]

It’s Always Blossom Time on a Ramble around Tokyo’s Imperial Gardens

May 21, 2019 Comments Off

Tokyo can be daunting, with its forests of high rises and streets filled with seemingly endless processions of business men and women dressed in co-ordinated dark suits and immaculate white shirts. Modern Tokyo has taken […]

On Oceania, an Alaska Fish Story Where They Don’t Get Away

July 2, 2015 Comments Off

What do Alaska fishing guides do after a long day of helping visiting anglers catch hard-fighting king salmon? They go fishing. Taylor and Zane are local Alaska boys who pretty much live on their fishing […]