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Ponant: new itineraries for summer 2024

Ponant has announced new offerings for summer 2024 with exceptional itineraries in the far north. Twenty-six new sailings cover destinations from Spitsbergen, Norway, to America’s Great Lakes via Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the west coast of Iceland, with six itineraries offered between June and October. Guests embark on exciting adventures that vary from visiting […]

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Silver Endeavour: Antarctica Aboard a Luxury Ship

The Silver Endeavour is ready for its maiden voyage to Antarctica. Thanks to its rooms and ultra-luxury suites, with surfaces ranging from 33sqm to 174sqm, it will make guests’ holidays truly comfortable and unforgettable. Belonging to the ultra-lux fleet of Silversea Cruises, the ship is equipped with seven types of suites, among the most spacious […]

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Windstar: new cruises to Arabia season 2023/2024

Windstar Cruises has just released its new brochure detailing cruises to Arabia, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. Cruise passengers will enjoy impressive UNESCO views, beautiful beaches and wildlife, top-notch golf courses, snorkeling and extraordinary diving. There will also be no shortage of excellent shopping. Windstar Cruises‘ small ships are known for sailing to […]

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Aqua Mekong returns to Cambodia and Vietnam

Aqua Mekong returns to Cambodia and Vietnam this September, ready for an epic adventure to discover ancient temples and legends surrounding the Mekong Delta. On this culturally immersive journey between the Mekong River and Tonle Sap Lake, guests will have the opportunity to visit floating villages, take a bicycle ride through unexplored island trails, and […]

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Viking Saigon: the new season in Southeast Asia

Viking announced that its new river ship, Viking Saigon, has begun its inaugural season in Southeast Asia. The ship sails between Kampong Cham, Cambodia and Mơ Tho, Vietnam, as part of Viking‘s popular 15-day Magnificent Mekong itinerary. During this 15-day trip, guests explore the cultural treasures of Vietnam and Cambodia with 16 guided tours. Hotel […]

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Windstar Cruises: Caribbean and Central America

Windstar Cruises has launched a new itinerary starting in winter 2023, “Beach Fun & Sun: A Remote Caribbean Getaway” a seven-day cruise to some of the Caribbean’s most beautiful islands, with stops in St. Maarten, Antigua, St. Barts, Anguilla, Jost Van Dyke (overnight), Virgin Gorda and Tortola. The Nov. 4 departure will be on Star […]

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Escape Europe’s Heat on a Silversea Cruise to Alaska

With Non-Stop flights from Europe, you can cool off in Alaska on a Silversea Cruise. We don’t need to tell you how hot it is from Lisbon to Lesbos and from London to Lugano. May we suggest a solution? Alaska on Silversea. Fom now until September, there’s still space available on 7 great cruises at […]

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Seabourn Venture sets sail on its first voyage

Seabourn Venture, the first of Seabourn‘s two new ultra-luxury expedition ships, entered service and welcomed its first guests aboard on a 12-day Northern Islands expedition, departing from Tromsø, Norway, and heading to the Arctic and the Svalbard archipelago. “Exploration has always been a part of our brand heritage, but the launch of Seabourn Venture opens […]

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SH Vega: Arctic inaugural season kicks off

SH Vega, Swan Hellenic‘s second ice-class cultural expedition cruise ship, has set sail from Tromsø, Norway, for her first Arctic cruise, on an 11-day exploration of the Svalbard archipelago. Guests aboard SH Vega will be able to explore remote and generally inaccessible areas of the Svalbard archipelago, gaining a deeper experience of its fascinating mountains, […]

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Silversea: The Controtempo World Cruise 2025

Silversea Cruises has opened an exclusive pre-sale on its Controtempo World Cruise for 2025, inviting guests to travel to 59 destinations in 30 countries on four continents. Unveiled by cruise line executives during a special live-streamed event, the 136-day Controtempo World Cruise will depart Tokyo for New York on Jan. 13, 2025, unlocking some of […]

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Oceanwide: expedition into the Weddell Sea

Oceanwide Expeditions offers guests an adventurous expedition to explore one of Earth’s least visited areas, the incredible Weddell Sea in Antarctica, aboard the m/v Janssonius. This 27-night adventure, from February 13 to March 11, 2024, will take guests to many seldom-seen places and offer lovers of the polar regions the chance to encounter truly exotic […]

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Silversea enhances its Antarctic offering

In response to strong demand, Silversea is enhancing its industry-leading all-inclusive polar offering by adding three new “Antarctica Bridge” voyages for the 2023-2024 season. The seamless cruise program provides the fastest and most direct route to Antarctica, allowing travelers to fly over the Drake Channel in business-class comfort. “In response to exceptional demand, we have […]

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Windstar celebrates 35 years in Tahiti’s paradise

In 2022, Windstar Cruises celebrates 35 years of sailing in Tahiti, the only destination where the U.S.-based cruise line sails year-round, offering guests ample opportunity to plan a once-in-a-lifetime visit in any season. In October there will be twice as many opportunities to visit this paradise; in fact Wind Spirit, with a capacity of 148 […]

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Seabourn: the entire fleet returns to service

Seabourn, is celebrating the return of its entire fleet of ultra-luxury ships with the departure of Seabourn Sojourn from Athens, Greece. The ultra-luxury cruise line now has all five of its ships in service for the first time since March 2020. This summer, Seabourn Sojourn will join Seabourn Encore and Seabourn Quest in the Mediterranean, […]

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Ambassador Cruise Line: Big news for 2023/24

Ambassador Cruise Line has announced the launch of its 2023/24 sailing program that will see the cruise line’s first ship, Ambience, return for her second season with new itineraries and Ambition to take to the sea for her inaugural season on March 4, 2023. The two ships will sail to six continents and 58 countries, […]

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Coral Expeditions: Winter in Wallis and Fotuna

Australian company Coral Expeditions announces its new winter expedition voyage to Wallis and Fotuna. This December, Coral Adventurer will set sail from Cairns, Australia on an inaugural 21-night expedition voyage to the remote islands of Wallis and Futuna, located in the middle of the South Pacific. In celebration of the Christmas festivities and in anticipation […]

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Ambassador: Queen’s Jubilee Themed Cruise

Ambassador Cruise Line, the first British cruise line to be launched since 2010, has announced the specially-themed Round Britain & Queen’s Platinum Jubilee voyage in celebration of Queen Elizabeth’s seventieth year as monarch. Scheduled to take place onboard Ambassador Cruise Line‘s flagship Ambience, the 12-night itinerary will depart on 26 May 2022 from London Tilbury, […]

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SeaDream Yacht Club’s unprecedented 2024 itineraries.

SeaDream Yacht Club announces its newest Mediterranean itineraries for the 2024 season on its newly renovated luxury mega yachts, SeaDream I and SeaDream II. SeaDream II‘s 2024 Mediterranean season will begin May 4, 2024, calling at 12 countries for 6- to 11-night cruises. Unseen destinations include Crotone and Taranto, Tangier, Vlora, Krk, and Tunis, to […]

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Costa Venezia: from Istanbul to Greece and Turkey

The cruises on board Costa Venezia in Turkey and Greece make their debut from Istanbul on May 1st. This is an absolute novelty in the current panorama of organized holidays, which sees the collaboration between Costa Cruises, Turkish Airlines, the National Tourism Organization of Turkey and Galataport of Istanbul. The proposed formula is that of […]

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A Danube River Cruise as a Culinary Extravaganza

Imagine combining the delights of Prague and Passau, the wine of the Wachau Valley, the splendor of Vienna and the beauty of both Bratislava and Budapest in one glorious Gourmet experience from start to finish.  That’s what’s in store for Guests aboard Avalon Waterways Avalon View as she makes “Danube Dreams” come true this July. […]

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Silversea: to Antarctica from Puerto Williams

Silversea Cruises enhances guest travel to Antarctica with a more comfortable connection. Guests traveling aboard the line’s three ice-class expedition ships, Silver Cloud, Silver Wind and Silver Explorer,, will embark and disembark in Puerto Williams, Chile for the 2022-2023 season, enjoying longer flight times affordable and personalized service during an exclusive charter flight and faster [&he

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NCL: Pride of America returns to service in Hawaii

Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) has announced the return to service of Pride of America, the only cruise ship to sail Hawaii all the year. NCL‘s Pride of America, the fifteenth ship in its fleet to return to service, makes weekly seven-day round trips from Honolulu, giving guests nearly 100 hours of port and the ability […]

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The Antarctic journeys of Oceanwide Expeditions

Oceanwide Expeditions unveils its expedition cruises to Antarctica departing next December. The first trip, HDS23-22, to Antarctica is scheduled for 4 to 13 December. Paradise Bay, Port Lockroy and Neko Harbor will be just some of the stops on this beautiful itinerary. The second cruise, HDS24-22, is similar to the first, but the departure is […]

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The restart of the Scenic river cruises

Scenic’s first river cruise has restarted, after two years, the luxury company is deploying all its ships for the 2022 season. Opening the season is an eight-day cruise on the Rhine River. Following the pandemic, in the summer of 2021, Scenic had re-proposed a small number of departures exclusively in the Bordeaux region and on […]

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