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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 [...]

A Close Call and Seabourn Sojourn’s Crew is Up to the Challenge

June 30, 2012 Comments Off

The Seabourn Sojourn was ready to sail; the passengers were all on board– except for us. What was supposed to be a leisurely afternoon to get acquainted with the ship and its options and […]

8 Reasons Why Viking Longships are Dominating Europe’s Rivers

January 29, 2015 Comments Off

I can’t imagine any voyage more steeped in European history than a cruise along the Danube aboard a Viking Longship whose program director is a guy named Attila “the Hun-garian.” Even our starting point on […]

Celebrity Apex Delivered Virtually

March 30, 2020 Comments Off

Despite the cruise shutdown, Celebrity Cruises has taken delivery of its newest ship—this one a virtual handover via video conference with officials of the French shipyard Chantiers de l’Atlantique. Celebrity Apex, with capacity for 2,900 […]

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 […]

8 Reasons Why Dining is an Irresistible Temptation on Oceania’s Riviera

January 1, 2020 Comments Off

Caution: Do not attempt this at home. Tucking into three square meals a day on Oceania Cruises’ Riviera could make your bathroom scale rebel. There’s ample temptation on a ship whose cuisine is so seductive […]