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Alaska

Why a 15-year Alaskan Dream Ended So Suddenly

A small, niche cruise line sailing in Southeast Alaska has called it quits. “Effective immediately, Alaskan Dream Cruises has ceased business operations and will no longer be operating future sailings,” the cruise line announced on [...]
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 [...]

What to Say When They Say: God Only Knows When You’re Going to Fly

by Wallace Immen in Airlines Comments Off on What to Say When They Say: God Only Knows When You’re Going to Fly

It’s a sign that you may not be boarding your flight when uniformed police surround the desk of the departure gate just before an agent is about to make an announcement. It happened on an [...]

Azamara Offers Modern Day Cure for Greek Island Fever on Visit to Ancient Kos

July 14, 2013 Comments Off

Limp in, leap out was the theory of health care in ancient Greece. Hospitals were kind of tough-love health spas where you stayed until you got better. But a lot of it depended on how […]

It’s a Wonder of the Seas and It’s the Biggest Yet

September 16, 2021 1

Royal Caribbean International is doing it again. The latest addition is once again laying claim to be the world’s largest cruise ship and it’s coming to America, rather than China as originally announced. Wonder of […]

Lindblad Offering Fly-Direct Antarctic Cruises

January 9, 2024 Comments Off

While everyone has dreamed of visiting the penguins and experiencing the otherworldly landscapes of Antarctica, cruising there from South America across the unpredictable the Drake Passage for two days can sometimes be less than dreamy. […]

A Tight Squeeze as Seabourn Sojourn Seeks Out Trolls in Norway

July 16, 2012 Comments Off

It seemed like a mission impossible. Trollfjord is a passage so narrow you can’t even see it between the mountains that surround it until you’re right alongside it. How could our long, wide ship make […]

Seeing Rome in a Day: Six Sights from Piazza Navona

November 8, 2011 Comments Off

Salve! It translates literally as “hail,” and dates back to the days when they were wearing togas in the Forum. It’s still a standard morning greeting of Romans when they’re talking among themselves. You hear […]