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Alaska

Holland America Puts Spotlight on Alaska’s 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 [...]
Cruise Lines

Cunard Ramps Up Pomp as Queen Anne Delivered

Cunard is honoring its long history with plans to name its newest ship Queen Anne in its spiritual home, Liverpool. The gala event will take place on the world-famous Mersey waterfront on June 3 during [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]

Silver Spirit Visits Sinai: A Desert Far Beyond Expectations

by Wallace Immen in Africa 2

Until we can once again cruise to exotic lands, we can dream. Here’s a story that was first posted in The Cruisington Times in 2011. Mount Sinai is timeless and many of the scenes on [...]

Diving into Another World in Canada’s Arctic

September 12, 2023 1

It’s life, but not as we know it. Sea angels, sea butterflies and jolly jelly fish glimmer in vivid colors all around us, even though we can see right through them. The ultimate experience on […]

A Seabourn Experience in Hell on Earth is as Close as You Can Get to Heaven

March 4, 2020 Comments Off

There’s a vast cauldron where mud as caustic as sulphuric acid boils continuously. A superhot waterfall bubbles with steam and you can instantly cook food by dangling it into a stream. And we’re here to […]

Virgin’s Newest to be Valiant Lady

November 21, 2019 Comments Off

Virgin Voyages’ second ship will be named Valiant Lady and will make Barcelona her home port for Mediterranean itineraries when she debuts in May, 2021. Bookings for three featured itineraries open December 19, 2019. Valiant […]

A New Dawn for Norwegian

June 19, 2016 Comments Off

Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Dawn has become essentially new vessel, following a month-long dry dock as part of a $400-million Norwegian Edge upgrade program. The ship features two new restaurants and three new lounges and […]

Pre/Post Cruise: Finding Calm in Buzzing Bangkok

July 11, 2011 Comments Off

In Bangkok, there always seems to be a buzz. The roads teem with motorcycles and un-mufflered three-wheeled cabs known as tuk-tuks. On the river, “longtail” boats get their push from growling V-8 engines that are […]