Wellness cruise

Celebrity Cruises Hosts Wellness Makeovers with Goop

Celebrity Cruises and goop, the trendy magazine for healthy living, are partnering to bring favorite wellness practitioners on board for a series of four Caribbean sailings this fall. Kicking off in October, goop practitioners and experts will lead exclusive programming, including workouts and mindfulness sessions with a goal of enriching guests’ collective well-being while aboard the new luxury […]

Alaska cruise

The Late, Great Alaska Cruise is on the Comeback

Celebrity Cruises is preparing to take on Alaska next week, debuting the Celebrity Summit for a series of nine seven-day Alaska cruise sailings through America’s Last Frontier. What makes this Alaska cruise noteworthy, besides the Summit’s inaugural showcasing the cruise company’s $500 million fleetwide upgrade details, is the fact that it is sailing to Alaska at […]

Avalon River cruise with great authors

Cruise with the Muses

Avalon Waterways is starting a new celebrity-hosted Storyteller Series, inviting travel enthusiasts to turn the page on their vacation plans and step into a novel world of the well-considered word. The planned series allows river cruisers enjoy a Suite Ship sail through time and tales in storybook settings with chart-topping troubadours and capture insider narratives outside […]

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Cruising Stumbles Back to Life: Pauses and Pushes

While some cruises are on full pause, other cruise lines are slowly opening to safe travels. One of those cruise lines is Chrystal Cruises, which just announced sailings to the islands of the Bahamas starting in July. welcome The Crystal Serenity will provide Bahamas Escapes itineraries from Nassau and Bimini, including Harbour Island, Great Exuma, San Salvador and Long Island. All guests will […]

Seabourn discounted cruises

Line on Cruise: Seabourn Savings, Norwegian Ravings

Seabourn Cruise Line started the holiday season with a signature campaign that will run through March 1, 2021, bringing a variety of significant perks, suite upgrades, shipboard credits and generous internet packages to get cruisers back into action. Depending on the individual voyage, event benefits include the following: – Veranda for Ocean View Suite upgrades – Up […]

Cruise Alaska Hurtigruten 2020

Cruising Alaska for Less: Fleeting Deal from Hurtigruten

Hurtigruten is giving customers the chance to look ahead and book future travel while staying close to home. Through November 15th travel advisors can offer travelers a buy one, get one at half off discount to experience Alaska. “We know travelers are looking for domestic travel options that still take them to destinations that make them feel like […]

Sustainable cruising

Get Ready for the Rise of Green Cruising

Carnival Corporation, which holds the tag as the world’s largest leisure travel company, is partnering with leaders from maritime and engineering industries to pilot the world’s first fuel cell system designed to power large passenger vessels. As early as 2021, Germany-based AIDA Cruises will trial this innovative fuel technology on AIDAnova, becoming the cruise industry’s […]

sailing with Seabourn

Culinary Heaven at Sea: Thomas Keller Sails with Seabourn

By David Yeskel In a never-ending battle for culinary supremacy on the high seas, Seabourn Cruises fired a shot across the bow of the competition in the luxury sector by partnering with Michelin-starred chef Thomas Keller in 2015.  The goal – to add the chef’s prized dishes to menus aboard the line’s fleet of intimate […]

Norwegian Joy Inaugural. Los Angeles, California

Norwegian Joy Back From China – With a Bang

By David Yeskel **** The tale of Norwegian Joy’s return from China is a fascinating business story. And it is also testament to the flexibility of the cruise industry and to the vision of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings’ (Norwegian Cruise Line’s parent company) management.

Outlander series with Diana Gabaldon on Avalon cruise

River Cruise Themes on Avalon to Quench Passionate Interests

From following in the footsteps of a favorite novel series or finding new and rare wines to praise, river cruising is not just about passing iconic scenery while sailing the great rivers of Europe. Avalon Waterways is offering, among a long menu of choices, a chance to sail with Diana Gabaldon, author of the very popular […]