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Scenic Teams Up with Master Canadian Chefs

Canadian culinary stars Chefs Lynn Crawford and Lora Kirk are teaming up with Scenic Luxury Cruises & Tours for a culinary journey along Portugal’s Douro River. A Chef’s Culinary Adventure of Delightful Douro, sails round [...]
Asia

Oceania Wants You to Settle in for a Very Long Voyage

Oceania Cruises is stretching the definition of cruises to remarkable lengths. A new menu of options includes cruises that range from 31-day explorations to 180-day circumnavigations.Oceania’s fleet will be calling at more than 600 destinations [...]
Celebrity Beyond

Mystery Solved! Why Captain McCue Jumped Ship

Capt. Kate McCue is resigning from her role as captain at Four Seasons Yachts and intends to spend more time with her family. She shared the decision in an Instagram video in which she says [...]
Carnival Cruise Line

Think Cruising isn’t Sustainable? Carnival Begs to Differ

Carnival Corporation is defending the sustainability of cruising, saying not only has it met targets for cutting emissions early, it is raising its eco-friendly goals and will achieve them sooner. The world’s biggest cruise company, [...]
Caribbean

Sugar Beach: MSC’s Sweet New Caribbean Destination

There’s a new name on the cruise map for MSC Cruises and Explora Journeys in the Caribbean. Catalina Sugar Beach is the newest private island destination off the coast of La Romana, Dominican Republic.Set to [...]

Women Take Charge on Celebrity Edge

by Wallace Immen in Celebrity Cruises Comments Off on Women Take Charge on Celebrity Edge

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 [...]

AmaLea: 7 Factors that Make an AmaWaterways Ship Feel like Home

July 16, 2018 Comments Off

The AmaWaterways experience begins the moment you arrive. Friendly crew members of AmaLea greet us at the dock to make sure we don’t even have to roll our own carry-ons aboard. We’re escorted through a […]

Victory Cruises Tell a Tasty Great Lakes Story

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A crowd on shore waves and cheers as we sail out of the Welland Canal into Lake Erie. This ship that’s cruising to all five of the Great Lakes is rare sight in itself. And […]

3 Fascinating Ports in Japan’s North that Deserve to be Better Known

June 19, 2019 Comments Off

Banging a taiko drum is harder than it looks. Flail away on the three-foot tall drum head with big sticks using just your arms and you’ll tire out immediately. The trick is to use your […]

AmaWaterways Boasts a Green Fleet

June 2, 2020 Comments Off

AmaWaterways has announced that 18 river cruise ships in its European fleet have earned a prestigious Green Award certification. The Green Award program is an independent certificate of safety and environmental standards for ocean and […]

Azamara Launches New Playbill

February 8, 2018 Comments Off

Azamara Club Cruises has a new entertainment roster, with cabaret-style performances and musicians from New York’s Feinstein’s/54 Below, as well as short opera vignettes and theatre shows from Magic City Opera and City Theatre on its […]