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Viking Cruises to resume operations from May 2021
The Good News! Viking Ocean Restarts in May 2021! The Bad News: You have to live in the UK to sail on Viking’s newest Ship. Viking, the multi award-winning Cruise Line, has announced that Viking Venus will embark on three special sailings along the coast of England. The sailings on May 22nd, May 29th and June […]
Lindblad Expeditions: new 2021/2022 itineraries
Lindblad Expeditions has announced its new itineraries for the 2021/2022 season to discover the wildest nature on the planet! The intrepid developers of the Lindblad Expeditions trips were not able to venture far from home during the pandemic, but based on their previous travel experiences they were able to continue to wander in their minds […]
Silversea: World Cruise 2023 on board Silver Shadow
To launch its Extraordinary 2023 World Cruise, Silversea Presents “South Side Story: All The World’s A Stage” When Silversea announced the most unique itinerary ever sailed on a World Cruise, the luxury cruise line pulled out all the stops. In a spectacular 27-minute production, Fernando Barroso de Oliveira, in his role as Silversea’s President’s Ambassador […]
Coral Expeditions: discovering the coral reef
Coral Expeditions, in collaboration with the Australian Geographic Society, presents the “Citizen Science on the Great Barrier Reef”, an extraordinary expedition departing from Cairns, a city on the north-eastern coast of Australia, on June 30, 2021 on board the Coral Discoverer. This is a special departure in which guests will explore some of the most […]
Regent Seven Seas Cruises: new Caribbean itineraries
Regent Seven Seas Cruises has relaunched the Caribbean season for the Seven Seas Navigator beginning in 2022 to offer travelers more choice and variety for ultra-luxury vacations in the southern Caribbean. With a length of between 7 and 30 nights in the months from January to April 2022 they have planned 12 trips, 7 of […]
AmaWaterways: a trip to 14 countries on 7 rivers
AmaWaterways takes us to discover the Seven River Journey: a new, unprecedented, epic trip to discover 14 countries and 7 rivers! This is the longest and most extraordinary river navigation ever to be done in a single 46-night itinerary traveling through 14 fascinating European countries aboard 4 award-winning river cruise ships. The departure is planned […]
Scenic Cruises ultra-luxury Antarctic program 2022/23
Scenic Luxury Cruises & Tours has presented its new calendar for ultra-luxury polar expeditions to the Antarctic. Among the new features is the possibility to ski in the Antarctic, to take part in submarine experiences in South Georgia and to discover the Weddell Sea. The Scenic Eclipse continues to be reconfirmed as the point of […]
Belize: the transformation of Port Coral
Construction has begun on a new docking facility for cruise ships near Belize City. The construction manager for the Port Coral project is Inter-coastal Marine Incorporated Company, one of the leading marine construction companies in Central America and the Caribbean. The project includes two “finger piers” (two parallel quays) which can accommodate four cruise ships […]
World Cruise 2022/23 with the new Viking Neptune
The “Thinking Person’s Cruise Line” is about to give its Passengers a Ph.D. on the most immersive voyage imaginable. Since its start in 1997, Viking Cruises have taken thousands of travelers on destination-focused itineraries on rivers and oceans around the world. Its chairman, Torstein Hagen, has charted his award-winning line’s immersive voyages to cater to […]
In Magellan’s footsteps with Australis
Australis Cruises Patagonia offers unique itineraries which follow Magellan’s routes on the 500th anniversary of his explorations. A truly unforgettable cruise experience. Once it was an unknown sea, a cold Antarctic area with inhospitable people. On November 1, 1520 Magellan decided to explore it with sailing ships and from then exactly 500 years have gone […]
Oceanwide Expeditions: the wonder of birds
Oceanwide Expeditions offers marvelous itineraries to discover birds, from the far south to the far north. For next year, Oceanwide has organized a number of special cruises for bird lovers and those who want to photograph birds. These exciting trips visit spectacular places in the Arctic, like Spitsbergen and Greenland, and places to the south […]
8 Reasons to Take a Scenic Cruise Along the Danube
Scenic River Cruises: a river cruise on the Danube in the experience told by our Monte Mathews. Informations and recomendations for a great voyage in this report by Cruising Journal. Luxury from Budapest to Nuremburg Taking an Australian ship on a river cruise through the heart of Europe may seem counterintuitive. But Scenic has been […]
Viking Cruises: Discovering Europe through the Danube
Viking River Cruises‘ Danube: one of the best ways to experience Europe. Let’s discover how to visit Europe while on board a great river fleet with Monte Mathews and Cruising Journal. There are two universal truths about Viking River Cruises. One: literally everyone you talk to wants to take one. And two: everyone who wants […]
Viking River Cruises will take to the Mississippi in 2022
Rolling on the River: Viking River Cruises will take to the Mississippi in 2022. Let’s discover the itineraries with Cruising Journal and Monte Mathews. Not only is Viking River Cruises by far the world’s largest fleet of river going passenger ships, it plies more rivers than any other cruise line. From Portugal’s Douro River to […]
The SeaDream I ready for the Caribbean season
The SeaDream I will be the first cruise ship to depart from Great Britain after months of shutdown caused by the pandemic. A transatlantic 17-day sail is scheduled for the ship’s repositioning to Barbados. Despite the new security measures put in place by Great Britain, the SeaDream Yacht Club’s ship will leave from Portsmouth on […]
Seadream Yacht Club: restarting from the Caribbean
SeaDream Yacht Club has confirmed that it is ready to start the winter season in the Caribbean, thanks to a careful plan coordinated with the local authorities and the strict health and safety protocols already put in place during the summer season in Norway. It will certainly not be simple, because of the health procedures […]
The Aranui 5 sets off again to discover the Marquesas
Aranui Cruises will begin sailing with passengers again on August 8, 2020 heading toward the marvelous Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia. The resumption of cruising was made possible by the lifting of local travel restrictions in French Polynesia starting on July 15th. Just one cruise, reserved strictly for local passengers, already took place on July 18th. […]
Coral Expeditions: discovering the Coral Sea
The heart of Coral Expeditions is the Great Barrier Reef, where this small Australian company began its cruise activity 35 years ago. In this time of uncertainty and global challenges, Coral Expeditions has of course chosen to resume from the Great Barrier Reef with brand new itineraries with the highest safety protocols. These new departures […]
SeaDream Yacht Club: cruises have resumed
The first SeaDream Yacht Club Norwegian cruise itinerary left from Oslo on June 20. It is the first company in the luxury sector to resume cruising after the prolonged interruption, which started in March 2020, caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The itineraries offered by SeaDream in Norway have met with great success. The initial schedule […]
Royal Caribbean: from Venice to Ravenna in 2021
Royal Caribbean International recently informed passengers with reservations for cruises departing from Venice in the summer of 2021 that their new home port will be Ravenna, a city about 140km from Venice. In summer 2021, the Rhapsody of the Seas is the ship that will welcome guests in Ravenna instead of Venice for their Royal […]
Disney Cruise Line: restarting in August
Disney Cruise Line, just like all the other cruise ship companies, suspended their activities and many departures were cancelled around the world. The entire Disney Magic European season was cancelled, just like Alaska and their traditional cruises in the Caribbean. However, a new beginning is around the corner and it is already possible to book […]
Ponant: cruises in France beginning in July
Ponant is restarting its cruise scheduling using six ships of the fleet, with itineraries to explore France and truly wonderful places to discover. From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, 5 departure ports for 5 different itineraries with a style that is similar to the concept of expedition cruises: few passengers, unusual stopovers, cultural insights and […]
SeaDream: cruises in Norway starting in June
SeaDream Yacht Club is restarting with cruises in Norway during the month of June, after the suspension of all itineraries that occured mid-March up to the present. The itineraries in Norway range in length between 7 and 12 days and offer cruising among fjords, cities and the beautiful Lofoten Islands. There are 9 initial cruises planned, […]
Silversea: Antarctica photographed by Steve mccurry
The photographer Steve McCurry has photographed Antarctica for the first time in his career, traveling on board the Silver Cloud operated by Silversea during a 10 day cruise that departed on December 10, 2019. McCurry went through the Drake Passage to capture enchanting images of the Antarctic Sound, of the Antarctic Peninsula and the South […]