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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 [...]

White Pass & Yukon train to Skagway, Alaska

Hairpin Turns and Bottomless Valleys on a Day Trip to the Klondike

by Wallace Immen in Cruises Comments Off on Hairpin Turns and Bottomless Valleys on a Day Trip to the Klondike

You’ve got to hand it to people who have a vision about how to make a fortune. As thousands of world-be prospectors set out from Skagway, Alaska, across the rugged mountains to the Yukon in [...]

Carnival Fleet Will Sport Swoops of America’s Colors

May 5, 2021 Comments Off

Call it patriotism or just updating with a sleek maritime look, Carnival is repainting its fleet in waves of red, white and blue as it prepares to celebrate the line’s 50th birthday in 2022. The […]

Always Fresh: Dining Around the World on Oceania’s Insignia

June 28, 2022 1

You could cruise on Insignia for half a year and never have the same meal twice. Credit a dedicated staff and experience for making Oceania Cruises’ world cruise ship a culinary destination. But there have […]

A Dock in Venice for Sea Cloud Spirit

October 24, 2024 Comments Off

The sailing yacht Sea Cloud Sprit is one of the few small cruise ships still entitled to dock in the Grand Lagoon Canal of Venice. To celebrate, the new full-rigged ship built from a century […]

Explora Journeys Celebrates Double Ship Milestones

September 7, 2023 Comments Off

While orders of new cruise ships have been in a lull recently, MSC Group is saying full speed ahead with its new Explora Journeys series of luxury ships. Just two months after the delivery of […]

A&K Going Further with Worldwide Cruising Choices

June 3, 2024 Comments Off

With a new adventure yacht and a world focus, Abercrombie & Kent has announced its broadest range of cruise choices and experiences. The 2025 Luxury Expedition Cruise portfolio includes 24 cruises across seven continents and […]