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Halfway to a Dream Fleet, Explora’s Ambitions Keep Growing

With three luxury ocean ships sailing and three more soon to come, Explora Journeys is looking beyond the horizons to even more experiences on the oceans and on Europe’s rivers. It’s a magical moment, Chris [...]
Asia

What Can We Learn from the Tragic End of an Odyssey?

What was sold as the “never-ending cruise” certainly ended in dramatic fashion–with residents told they had just a few hours to pack up and leave their homes at sea.The Villa Vie Odyssey, a residential cruise [...]
Africa

Viking Plots a Journey Worthy of Pharoahs

Viking has opened bookings for a new 19-day Grand Nile Journey itinerary exploring ancient Egypt in unprecedented depth. The explorations in 2028 feature four hotel nights in Egypt’s capital and 14-night sailings between Cairo and [...]
Cruise Lines

Explora Rounding out its Family at a Half Dozen

Explora Journeys keeps innovating as its completes its planned fleet of six ships. The luxury cruise brand of MSC Group marked milestones in the building of the final ships in its fleet at a shipyard [...]
Cruise Lines

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 [...]

The Catch: Chef Rudi’s Seafood Coming to Princess Cruises

by Wallace Immen in Cruise Lines Comments Off on The Catch: Chef Rudi’s Seafood Coming to Princess Cruises

Princess Cruises is reeling in a new specialty seafood restaurant, The Catch by Rudi, a joint partnership with Chef Rudi Sodamin, head of culinary arts for Princess and for Holland America Line.The Catch by Rudi [...]

Celebrity’s at it Again, Polishing Up its Reflection

July 10, 2026 Comments Off

Celebrity Cruises is adding 13 new spaces in a sweeping modernization of its popular Celebrity Reflection. As the second Solstice Series ship to be made new again, the transformation arriving in March, 2027, introduces 13 […]

Is it Time to Dip Your Toes in the Ganges?

September 27, 2026 Comments Off

You’ve cruised the Rhine, the Danube and the Seine. Now it may be time to do something extraordinary and explore rivers in India with thousands of years in history. Scenic Cruises– better known for ocean […]

Straight up! Is a Beverage Package on a Cruise a Good Deal?

November 9, 2016 Comments Off

Yes, yes we know moderation is a virtue. But a cruise is after all a vacation, and somebody else is doing the driving. A cool one or two does taste awfully good while you chill by the […]

Bizarre Plan to Turn Cruise Ship into Offshore Condo Scrapped

December 20, 2020 3

A scheme to turn a former Love Boat into an offshore community for people who prefer to pay in Bitcoin seemed a little too weird to be true. And now the whole project and the […]

Princess Taps into Puppet Silliness

October 22, 2019 Comments Off

Jim Henson’s Inspired Silliness–created by the legendary puppeteer and revived by The Jim Henson Company and director John Tartaglia–will entertain audiences of all ages onboard the new Sky Princess in 2019 and Enchanted Princess in […]