Cruise West is making cruising to Antarctica a lot more affordable by waiving the single supplement fee for its 18-night ultimate Antarctica voyage departing February 2010. So if Antarctica is on your bucket list, and you don’t have a travel partner, now you can go for the price of sharing a cabin. This [...]
Princess Cruises is once again using passenger feedback to award shore excursion operators in Alaska for their expertise. The annual end of season event is in its tenth year, recognizing top-rated local tour operators with the line’s C.R.U.I.S.E. service awards for best shore excursion experiences. The awards are given within each port that [...]
Just when you thought you had seen all the ways to spend extra money on a cruise, Royal Caribbean International’s newest ship, Oasis of the Seas launches the largest variety of retail venues, 13 stores, including open-air shopping that cover more than 10,000 square feet. You won’t even have to go ashore in the ports [...]
Princess Cruises is doing its part to keep green alive, and save on the use of standard electricl power while in port. This is a new experiment by Princess and Canada alike. Today Island Princess helped inaugurate the Port of Vancouver’s new shore power facility by turning off its engines and instead “plugging [...]
Celebrity Cruises remains a step ahead of its competition by giving their cruise guests high quality entertainment and thought provoking presentations. An industry trendsetter in presenting permanent, seagoing collections of museum-quality contemporary art, Celebrity Cruises continues its tradition aboard the new Celebrity Equinox with “The Essence of Equinox,” a collection of nearly 500 original [...]
Holland America has had many milestones in Europe over the years, and the latest involves the Oosterdam, Holland America Line’s Vista Class ship. Her recent cruise in the Mediterranean, from Venice to Barcelona, was her 300th cruise. The special cruise was in the aftermath of extensive upgrades in Fincantieri’s Palermo Shipyard in Italy to [...]
Crystal Cruises just keeps raising the bar higher and higher, and for a record fourteenth year, they were voted “World’s Best Large-Ship Cruise Line” by the readers of Travel + Leisure magazine. Maintaining its stronghold as the only cruise line, resort or hotel to have won the prestigious award each year since the awards’ inception, [...]
