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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 [...]
Alaska

Holland America Puts Spotlight on Alaska 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 [...]
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 [...]
Carnival Cruise Line

New Optimism, New Ships as Cruises Celebrate a Rebound

Big ship orders and a buoyant future for cruising were the buzz at Seatrade Cruise Global, the cruise industry’s biggest confab of the year, held in the second week of April in Miami. Record levels [...]

Taking the Plunge: Royal Caribbean Scuba Program is Unique and Fun

by Wallace Immen in Caribbean 1

There’s a vastly fascinating part of the world most people have never explored: the unique and brilliantly colorful realm under the sea. It’s about to get a whole lot easier to visit the empire of [...]

Here’s to a Bon Voyage! Uniworld is Upgrading River Royale to a Super Ship

July 26, 2018 Comments Off

Uniworld Boutique River Cruise Collection will launch its newest Super Ship next spring, the S.S. Bon Voyage. After a winter transformation, the former River Royale will resume service on the Dordogne and Garonne rivers as […]

Seabourn Venture Begins Adventuring in Style

July 27, 2022 Comments Off

Seabourn Venture has entered service on a Norwegian Arctic and the Svalbard Archipelago cruise as the first of two new ultra-luxury expedition ships from Seabourn Cruises. “Exploration has always been part of our brand legacy, […]

Why a Daytime Panama Canal Crossing is Still an Essential Cruise Adventure

December 4, 2018 1

Clang, clang, clang go the cute little electric trolleys that are still known as mules. Crystal Serenity seems to move in slow motion as the lock gates open and close at a stately pace. It takes […]

Cosmonaut space suit in Moscow museum of cosmoauts

Scenic Tsar Guests Get a Leisurely Look at Russia’s Race Into Space

November 3, 2012 Comments Off

Remember the Space Race? What a lot of hot air and fear was generated over the superpowers’ headline grabbing space feats–from the beeping of Russia’s Sputnik to Americans’ footprints on the moon. It was also a […]

Revealing Regent’s Pool Oasis

April 28, 2015 Comments Off

Regent Seven Seas is drawing inspiration from high-end pool retreats at exclusive boutique hotels for a Deck 11 oasis on the upcoming Seven Seas Explorer. The concept by Tillberg Design marries Southeast Asian design elements […]