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FIRST IMPRESSIONS are always important and set the stage for the vacation ahead and so it was when sailing on a Caribbean cruise from Panama to Barbados earlier this year. There had been a lot of anticipation about this new...

Video: Royal Caribbean Launches ‘Making an Icon: Creating Flavours for Everyone’

Royal Caribbean has just launched a new video entitled “Making an Icon: Creating Flavours for Everyone.” Royal Caribbean International’s Icon of the Seas serves up flavours of all kinds, even those just for the kids. Part one of “Making an...

Atlas Ocean Voyages Names Solo Antarctic Explorer Preet Chandi as World Voyager Godmother

Atlas Ocean Voyages has announced British physiotherapist and British Army Captain Harpreet "Preet" Kaur Chandi MBE will serve as the godmother for the cruise line’s newest luxury yacht, World Voyager, debuting this fall in Antarctica.Preet Chandi gained international recognition in...

Authentic Antarctic Expeditions: The World’s Most Luxurious Expedition Ship, Silversea’s Silver Endeavour Delivers Thrills of a Lifetime

WHEN NATURE CHILLS your plans, forcing a spontaneous change of course, your journey can turn more spectacular than anticipated. That was the scene, south of the Antarctic Circle, when Silver Endeavour delivered experiences beyond its guests’ dreams. By then, on...

Above and Beyond: Celebrity Sets a New Standard

IT WAS SHAKESPEARE’S JULIET who asked “What’s in a name?” She would never have asked that question had she been aboard Celebrity Beyond, a ship whose name describes her guests’ experiences perfectly. Take for example, her magic carpet. Until Celebrity introduced their...

Celebrity Chef Giada De Laurentiis Named Godmother of Oceania Cruises’ New Ship Vista

Oceania Cruises has named celebrated Italian-American chef, author, restaurateur and Emmy Award-winning food personality, Giada De Laurentiis, as godmother of its newest ship Vista, debuting May 2023. Multiple Grammy and Emmy Award-winning singer, pianist and actor Harry Connick Jr. will...

Onward to the Horizon: Changing the Way We “Sea” the World with Azamara’s Newest Ship

THERE’S ALWAYS a sense of excitement when a ship is named, and we see a giant Champagne bottle smashing against a dark blue hull. So, it was for the naming ceremony of the Azamara Onward. As a cruise lover, perhaps...

Paradise Found

DEPARTING DENAREAU and sailing into the blue, en route to Sacred Island in a catamaran, we find the welcoming committee ready for us. First is a school of playful dolphins, keeping pace off both the port and starboard sides. They...

Greece Off The Grid

THE CITY RISES ON TWO HILLS, buildings of white and pink and orange and blue, climbing away from the sea. One is crowned with a Catholic Cathedral, the other, an Orthodox church. Settlement on this island dates back more than...

Dispatches from the Galapagos

I AM HELD CAPTIVE by the beauty of the Galápagos Islands and the wildlife that inhabits them. It reminds me that one of the reasons to travel far and wide is to see and experience remarkable events, life-changing moments, and...

NEW MOON: Silversea Shines Brightly as the Silver Moon Sets Sail

WE BOARDED SILVERSEA CRUISES’ newest ship, the elegant, intimate Silver Moon, in Athens in late July. We were sailing to some gorgeous Greek Isles for ten days on a marvellous itinerary – and it was heaven! We called at small...

A Day in the Life of a Cunard Captain

Reprint of original articleInger Klein Thorhauge is one of a few female captains in the cruise industry. As a native of the Faroe Islands, a cluster of rocky outcrops almost equidistant between Iceland, Norway and the UK, seafaring is in...