The wildly popular Viking Ocean Cruises is preparing to launch their second ship, Viking Sea, hot off the heels of the floating out of their third ship, Viking Sky, at Fincantieri’s Ancona shipyard. Viking Sea is the second of six planned ships for Viking Ocean Cruises. Viking Ocean Cruises took delivery of Viking Sea at a […]
Carnival has announced that they will be launching new dining concepts for their ship’s main dining rooms beginning on the week of December 8th. The new dining concepts, named American TABLE and American FEAST, will offer guests unique dining experiences throughout their sailings. During the development of the new dinner concepts, the cruise line’s management […]
Windstar Cruises has announced a second food and wine sailing that will take place next November, sailing from Barcelona, Spain to Lisbon, Portugal. The sailing will call in Sóller, Valencia, Cartagena, Almería, Málaga, and Cádiz, ending in Lisbon, Portugal aboard Windstar’s Wind Surf. The sailing will be hosted by Stephen Metzler and Almudena de Llaguno, founders of […]
Earlier this week, Holland America Line’s Statendam aided in the rescue of 102 tourists and a Glacier Bay Park Ranger, after their sightseeing boat had become disabled. The sightseeing boat, the Baranof Wind, was touring Glacier Bay at the time and had just departed the John Hopkins Glacier when a mechanical fault disabled the ship. The Baranof […]
Earlier today, Norwegian Cruise Line’s CEO Kevin Sheehan announced that Norwegian Cruise Linenintends to excersize its option to build a second Breakaway Plus cruise ship. Breakaway Plus II, as it is being temporarily named, is expected to enter service sometime in 2017. The Breakaway Plus II would be a sister to the already ordered Breakaway […]