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Abercrombie & Kent

New Ship to Explore Peru’s Amazon in Style

A new riverboat described as a floating boutique hotel will start exploring the Amazon in 2025 as Abercrombie & Kent’s first South American ship. Featuring 10 double cabins and two single cabins, the as-yet unnamed [...]
Alaska

Holland America Puts Spotlight on Alaska Glaciers

Holland America Line is debuting Glacier Days on its Alaska cruises with expanded We Love Alaska on-board experiences. HAL’s six ships doing cruises from Vancouver and Seattle are featuring more cultural enrichment and culinary and [...]
Australia

Penguins or Wallabies? A Dilemma on an Aussie Island

Decisions, decisions. On a visit to Australia’s Philip Island on a Seabourn Cruises voyage down under, two evening shore excursions were both listed as must-sees.One tour promised us an unforgettable avian airshow as thousands of [...]
Atlas Ocean Voyages

Windstar Adding Two New High-tech Ships to its Fleet

Windstar Cruises is expanding its fleet with two all-suite motor yachts, Star Seeker and Star Explorer. The first of the two ships, Star Seeker is currently being constructed in the WestSEA shipyard in Portugal and [...]
Carnival Cruise Line

New Optimism, New Ships as Cruises Celebrate a Rebound

Big ship orders and a buoyant future for cruising were the buzz at Seatrade Cruise Global, the cruise industry’s biggest confab of the year, held in the second week of April in Miami. Record levels [...]

Avalon Waterways Charts Debut in Portugal

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Avalon Waterways will launch its first-ever sailings on Portugal’s Douro River with a new Suite Ship – the Avalon Alegria – in 2024. “We’ve been waiting for the perfect opportunity to add Portugal to our [...]

Lynn Crawford Cooking up a French Cruise on Scenic

March 22, 2021 Comments Off

Celebrity chef and best-selling author Lynn Crawford will be joining international design expert Tommy Smythe on a specialty themed Rhone river cruise on Scenic Luxury River Cruises in July, 2022. Guests will be treated to […]

Jumping for Joy on Carnival Breeze’s New High Energy TV Game Show

December 15, 2012 Comments Off

Ever dream of being a contestant on a TV game show? You know, the kind of show where the host goes into the audience and tells someone dressed in a crazy costume to get up […]

What’s Next for Oceania Cruises: Riviera Charts a New Course

December 3, 2019 Comments Off

There’s more buzz than usual in the Horizons Lounge on Riviera at a cocktail party hosted by the captain. More than half of the guests on this Caribbean cruise on Riviera are repeaters who love […]

What’s the wi-fi on Norwegian?

October 5, 2018 Comments Off

What’s the wi-fi? It’s one of the main concerns for millennials who account for about a quarter of all passengers of Norwegian Cruise Line. Tech-savvy guests are the company’s fastest growing segment. The new Cruise […]

As the River Cruise Boom Goes Global, Innovation is the Word for 2020

February 24, 2020 Comments Off

There’s no cruise experience quite as serene as relaxing on a river ship and watching gorgeous, ever-changing scenery pass slowly by. Smooth sailing and the ability to dock right in the center of cities that […]