Amenities, Activities, and Entertainment The Caribbean Princess is a ship designed for more sophisticated cruisers who tend to enjoy cooking classes, wine tastings, and port lectures versus rock climbing walls, water slides, and ropes courses. The Caribbean Princess hosts many small lounges, including the much larger Princess Theater, which are all used to hold special […]
Carnival Sunshine – which recently underwent a groundbreaking $155 million renovation that added a host of new features and facilities – arrived last week in Barcelona, Spain, following its inaugural 12-day cruise from Venice, Italy. The unprecedented transformation added all of the line’s Fun Ship 2.0 dining, bar and entertainment features, along with a host of unique […]
#4 – Book your shore excursions with the cruise line. If you book your shore excursion through your cruise line, whether online or onboard, the cruise line will communicate and work with your excursion leaders to locate you and return you to the ship prior to departure. Earlier this year on my Eurodam cruise, my excursion booked […]
Carnival Cruise Lines has added two distinctly different five-day itineraries to Carnival Freedom’s year-round schedule from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., beginning in 2014. The new five-day itineraries include a western Caribbean route featuring Ocho Rios and Grand Cayman, and an eastern Caribbean/Bahamas option featuring Grand Turk, Nassau and the private Bahamian island of Half Moon Cay. […]
Last night at the Beverly Hills Hilton, Viking River Cruises officially rebranded themselves as Viking Cruises as they enter the cruise market with their first ocean going cruise ship in 2015. Viking Cruise’s new ocean going venture is an expansion of Viking’s current river cruise program. With a new, custom built cruise ship, Viking will allow guests to reach […]
Around 9:00pm EST, Viking River Cruises will announce the latest details on its new cruise line, Viking Oceans. Viking Oceans will depart from its sister lines focus on river cruising and will launch traditional cruises to unannounced destinations. Viking Oceans currently has two ships on order with Fincantieri for scheduled delivery in 2014 and 2015. […]
It was announced yesterday that Cruise Currents, a website dedicated to reporting cruise news and reviewing cruise ships, has won the New York Travel Writer’s Society award for Best Travel Blogger Website of 2013. An open nomination process was held on the NYTWS’ website beginning in February and ended this month. Cruise Currents was anonymously submitted by […]
In the 2014-15 cruise season, Royal Caribbean will deploy 3 ships to sail the waters of Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. The Voyager of the Seas, Radiance of the Seas and Rhapsody of the Seas will sail from Sydney, Australia on two- to 17-night itineraries throughout Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. The itineraries of the […]
In a special ceremony earlier today, P&O Cruises marked the first step of the construction of their new, yet to be named ship. The first of 74 blocks, which will ultimately become the new ship once welded together, was laid at the direction of P&O’s Managing Director, Carol Marlow, and Carnival UK’s CEO, David Dingle. […]
Windstar Cruises, a leader in yacht-style cruising, announces the debut of its new all-suite yacht, Star Pride, and the 2014 Pride Voyage Collection. The new voyages open for sale today, and feature four new itineraries exclusive to the all-suite yacht, including Windstar’s new itinerary through the Black Sea. Star Pride’s nine distinctive voyages highlight small-ship ports throughout the Mediterranean seas […]
Today Princess Cruises opened the books on its Americas program – including Caribbean, Panama Canal, Canada & New England and West Coast cruises. The new sailings include Regal Princess’ debut in the Caribbean as well as Royal Princess’ first cruises to Canada & New England roundtrip from New York. On the West Coast, new roundtrip sailings from Vancouver add another departure […]
Banana Coast has signed Holland America Line as the first cruise line to schedule regular calls at the first mainland Honduras cruise port at Trujillo. Holland America Line’s 1,260-passenger Ryndam is slated to call at Banana Coast 11 times between 2014 and 2015 on its western Caribbean itineraries. The ship’s Nov. 19, 2014, call is […]