Carnival San Diego 2020 Booking Season Open, Choosing Difficult

Carnival Cruise Line returns to the Port of San Diego for the first time in seven years when Carnival Miracle arrives in late 2019.  2,124-passenger Carnival Miracle will sail a schedule of three- to 15-day voyages from San Diego from December 2019 to February 2020 starting Read More …

Cruise Bored? Perhaps Something Different Is In Order

Developing local embarkation ports around North America, cruise lines have made it easier for cruise travelers to make it from home to the ship. Flying or driving from home to the embarkation port takes costs less and takes less time Read More …

Tiny Star Legend Largest Ship To Transit Locks

This week, Windstar Cruises tiny Star Legend became the largest cruise ship ever to transit the Ballard Locks and sail onto Lake Union in Seattle, Washington. Star Legend’s inaugural visit to was especially significant because Seattle is the home of Windstar Cruises.  Onboard, Windstar Read More …

Abruptly Changing Course, Viking Adds Top Deck Attraction

Viking Cruises took the world of ocean cruising by storm not long ago, not by ‘raising the bar’ on anything. That bar-raising focus has a limited shelf life as we have seen time and time again. Someone else always comes Read More …

Luxury Expedition Cruises Bring Deep Touring

Abercrombie & Kent has been defining luxury adventure travel since 1962. Over the decades, A&K travel services have been extended to over 100 countries around the world on all seven continents by land and air.  This top travel company also Read More …

Welcome Home: Enchantment Back To Port Canaveral

Enchantment of the Seas was welcomed back to Port Canaveral for the first time since being repositioned away from Florida’s Space Coast in 2016.  This week marked the launch of a new season of three- and four-night sailings to the Bahamas.  Read More …

Celebrity Edge Spa Wellness Journey Unique, Unadulterated

A holistic wellness journey on Celebrity Cruises will take a different route when new Celebrity Edge debuts. The new Celebrity Edge Spa was inspired by nature, featuring an assortment of treatments. It’s a supermarket-sized concept called SEA (inspired by the Sea, Earth, and the Air) Read More …

Cruise Line Buys Alaska

They must be doing something right. Holland America Line and Princess Cruises, combined, bring more people to Alaska than all other cruise lines.  That leadership position applies to their offerings that visit the Canadian Yukon as well. That did not Read More …