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Silversea Cruises: even more all-inclusive
Silversea Cruises will be even more all-inclusive with the 2022/2023 planned itineraries, now with excursions at each port and return flights included in the price. The newly scheduled program includes a collection of truly extraordinary voyages. Thanks in part to the recent addition to the fleet, it is the largest selection ever offered by the […]
Star Breeze is delivered after being “lengthened”
Star Breeze was returned to Windstar Cruises today at the Fincantieri shipyards in Palermo after undergoing the lengthening process, planned for all three Star Class ships. The Star Plus Initiative has a value of 250 million dollars and involves the Star Breeze, the first of the three ships to undergo the intervention, as well as […]
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 […]
Pullmantur: is a future resumption possible?
Pullmantur considers resuming cruising months after the Spanish company became the first victim of insolvency caused by the Covid-19 virus. During the month of September, the company asked their followers on Facebook what they would like to see if Pullmantur was able to make a comeback. Among the requirements was obviously safety from a health […]
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 […]
The resumption of cruises in the United States still far off
The lifting of the “No Sail Order” in the United States will bring a gradual return to cruising, with new and rigid protocols and some trial cruises required before welcoming the first guests back on board. The reality is that we still have a ways to go. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]
The Silver Moon: delivered by Fincantieri in Ancona
The Silver Moon, the new flagship of Silversea Cruises and second of three ships on order from Fincantieri, was delivered this morning in Ancona. Preceded by the beautiful Silver Muse, launched in 2017 in Sestri Ponente, the Silver Moon was delivered to the owners and is now awaiting to find out the itineraries it will […]
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 […]
Swan Hellenic and Helsinki Shipyard: Vega3 arrives
On October 21, 2020 Swan Hellenic and Helsinki Shipyard announced the stipulation of a new contractual agreement for the order of a third cruise ship in the Vega class. Larger than its twin ships and designed to navigate in the waters of all the continents, the Vega 3 weighs 12,000 tons and is 125 meters […]
Fincantieri develops ventilation systems for Msc Cruises
Fincantieri has developed a new system of air purification for Msc Cruises to install on board their next-generation of ships. The Msc Seashore will have the first of these systems installed. Fincantieri and Msc Cruises have long been synonymous with research and innovation in the navigation and cruising sectors, with constant attention paid to the […]
Viking River Cruises: Day by Day On Viking Hlin
Viking River Cruise’s Rhine Getaway: Monte Mathews’ travel diary during an European cruise on board Viking Hlin. As river cruising grows and grows in popularity, Viking River Cruises, the industry giant and its most award-winning cruise line, has added something new. Its world-wide itineraries now feature Culinary Tours, Wine Tastings and multiple opportunities to sample […]
American Cruise Lines ready to launch American Melody
On October 16, 2020 in Guilford (Connecticut) the company American Cruise Line announced that their next ship is almost ready to launch. It will be called the American Melody and it is the fourth ship of the company’s acclaimed series of modern river boats. Its delivery is set for next year on the Mississippi River. […]
The new Iona delivered to P&O Cruises
In the Meyer Werft shipyard in Germany on October 9th, P&O Cruises took ownership of Iona, the latest addition to its fleet and the largest cruise ship ever built for the UK market. Iona is the first of two new vessels for the P&O Cruises brand. At 185,000 tonnes, 345 meters in length with 17 guest decks […]
Costa Deliziosa: cruise travel diary “Towards the East”
Travel diary from on board the Costa Deliziosa, a Costa Cruises ship, from September 13-20, 2020 for a trip “Towards the East” from Trieste to Puglia, Calabria and Sicily. After six long months without cruise ships there was an incredible feeling of enthusiasm not only for my personal return to cruising but also for the cruise […]
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 […]
Enchanted Princess delivered to Princess Cruises
Enchanted Princess was delivered today by Fincantieri to it’s ship owners, Princess Cruises. It is the fifth ship in the Royal class for the company, due to set sail in the Mediterranean next season. The new flagship of Princess Cruises, the Enchanted Princess, is the fifth ship in the Royal class to join the fleet. […]
Mardi Gras: sea trials begin in Finland
Today the Mardi Gras, the future flagship of Carnival Cruise Line, left for sea trials from the Meyer Werft shipyards in Turku, Finland. The technical sea trials will last 10 days, after which the ship will return to the shipyards for the final preparations before its definitive departure for the United States where it will […]
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 […]
Swan Hellenic: construction begins on the SH Minerva
Today the keel laying ceremony took place in Helsinki for the first of the two new Swan Hellenic cruise ships, the SH Minerva. The first 347-ton block of the ship, which had just arrived from Klaipeda where it was set up and painted, was placed on the keel over special coins for good luck. Relaunched […]
Celebrity Edge-class: will “Modern Luxury” ever be the same?
Celebrity Edge, and now its sister ship, Celebrity Apex were two of the most eagerly awaited cruise ships ever. And the ships have taken the cruise world by storm.. Their innovations start at its “parabolic ultra-bow” -which is curved rather than pointed–to their stern which encloses a three-story room that’s the largest glass-walled room on […]
How to return to sailing: the example of Costa Cruises
Costa Cruises has begun to sail again as of September 6, after a long safety protocol planning phase and attentive health evaluations coordinated with the Italian government. Let’s take an in-depth look at life on board post-Coronavirus and in particular at the new Safety Protocols. In order to return to sailing, Costa Cruises has developed […]
Ponant is number one for respecting the environment
Ponant has created a new approach to cruising, proposing a travel experience on the sea which also supports the development of responsible tourism. Now their yachts have helped them gain notoriety as one of the companies with the highest respect for the environment. This important achievement has just been recognized by the Nature and Biodiversity […]
Viking Cruises launches 2 new expediton ships
Thorsten Hagen is About to Change the Future of Cruise Ships…Again. Thorsten Hagen, Founder and Chairman of Viking Cruises, is a man on a mission. Not content to have built the world’s largest fleet of River Cruise Ships, numbering 73, and the world’s number-one rated fleet of Ocean-going Cruise ships, now numbering 6, Hagen is […]