Regent Seven Seas Cruises, one of the world’s finest luxury cruise lines, has announced their longest world cruise ever that will set sail in early 2025 from Miami, Florida. Regent’s newly announced world cruise for 2025 will start in Miami on January 7, 2025 before ending in San Francisco 150 days later.  The cruise will visit 97 ports in 25 countries on five continents and take place on … [Read more...]

Royal Caribbean’s next new cruise ship, Icon of the Seas, will be a new class of ship for the cruise line when the vessel debuts in 2023. Royal Caribbean released a video showing a giant sphere being added to the vessel at the shipyard.  The sphere measures 46 feet tall and 50 feet in diameter.  There are 578 aluminum panels on the sphere and 9 miles of cables for power and lighting. … [Read more...]

The world’s two largest cruise lines, Royal Caribbean and Carnival Cruise Line, now have all of their cruise ships in service for the first time in over two years. Royal Caribbean, the world’s largest cruise line with 26 cruise ships in their fleet, is the latest cruise line to have all of their ships once again offering cruises. Since Royal Caribbean resumed cruises last June on Adventure of … [Read more...]

Carnival Cruise Line reached a major comeback milestone this past week when they saw their 2 millionth passenger board one of their cruise ships since the cruise line resumed cruises last summer. The milestone was commemorated in Port Canaveral, Florida aboard Carnival Freedom as the Gibbs family – Daniel and Kristi with son Mason and grandmother Theresa Campbell – from Ocala, Fla. boarded the … [Read more...]

Costa Cruises is one of Carnival Corporation’s nine cruise lines. Although they are Carnival’s Italian line, they offer cruises to the Caribbean, South America, and obviously Europe and the Mediterranean. I just disembarked from my very first Costa cruise on Costa Venezia. It was a week long cruise out of Istanbul with port stops in Turkey and Greece. Here is what is was like to take a cruise on … [Read more...]

MSC Cruises’ giant new cruise ship that will debut later this year, MSC World Europa, will be 22 decks tall and have 33 restaurants, lounges, and bars. MSC World Europa will be 150 feet wide, feature 2,626 cabins, and have more than 430,000 square feet of public space.  The cruise ship will sail her maiden cruise on December 20, 2022 and be the largest ship in the cruise line’s fleet. The … [Read more...]

Celebrity Cruises is offering their lowest prices of the year on cruises to the Caribbean, Alaska, and to Europe. From now until June 2, 2022, Celebrity Cruises is offering their lowest fares of the year that has seven night cruises in an infinite balcony cabin starting at just $399 per person. This sale from Celebrity Cruises includes the following: 7 night Caribbean cruises in an infinite … [Read more...]

Royal Caribbean has announced that they have extended their health protocols for cruise ships that depart from North America through September 30, 2022 and sailings from Europe through June 30, 2022. All of Royal Caribbean’s health protocols will remain unchanged and there will no longer be testing requirements in the terminal for cruises from Italy. Guests 12 years and older must present proof … [Read more...]

A cruise line has added new cruises to Tahiti that will sail later this year and has canceled scheduled cruises to Asia in 2022. Windstar Cruises has canceled cruises in Asia that were scheduled to sail in the fall of 2022 on Star Breeze.  The cruise ship will now stay in Alaska for an extended season before heading to Tahiti for cruises in the French Polynesia. During October 2022, … [Read more...]

Carnival Cruise Line has brought back a popular program and is once again accepting reservations for guests who want to get married or have vow renewals on Carnival cruise ships. Reservations for Carnival’s weddings and vow renewals have opened for cruises starting September 2022 and beyond. “For decades, Carnival has been the leading wedding operator in the cruise industry, so we are very … [Read more...]

Carnival Cruise Line broke ground today on a new cruise port in the Bahamas and the port will have a pier that will be capable of having two of Carnival’s largest cruise ships visit on the same day. The groundbreaking ceremony for the new port took place on Grand Bahama Island. Several years ago, Carnival Cruise Line announced plans to build a new cruise port on the island and now the $200 … [Read more...]

Viking took delivery of a new ocean cruise ship today, Viking Mars, during a ceremony at the Fincantieri shipyard in Ancona, Italy. Viking Mars will now make her way to Valletta, Malta, where the ship will be officially named on May 17, 2022—Norwegian Constitution Day—by her ceremonial godmother, Lady Fiona Carnarvon, the Countess of Carnarvon. The cruise ship will then sail itineraries in the … [Read more...]

Princess Cruises has announced Princess Premier, an all new all-inclusive package that can be added on for just $75 per day starting on May 25, 2022. Princess Premier is available for purchase starting on May 25, 2022 for cruises that depart on or after June 25, 2022. This package offers a savings of more than 50% if a guest were to purchase them separately. The $75 per day all-inclusive package … [Read more...]

Oceania Cruises is the latest cruise line to see record demand for cruises after they had one of their best booking days ever. Last week, Oceania Cruises opened their 2024 sailings for bookings to the general public. The cruise line released more than 350 cruises that ranged from a week to 82 days in length that will sail from October 2023 through the end of 2024. “The 2024 Collection launch … [Read more...]

Carnival Cruise Line raised the price of their CHEERS! Beverage Package that is available for purchase on each of their cruise ships. Carnival Cruise Line’s CHEERS! program is an all-inclusive beverage program that allows guests to enjoy a wide range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages by paying a flat daily rate. It must be purchased for the entire length of the cruise. The new prices for … [Read more...]

Virgin Voyages, an adults only cruise line offering cruises from Miami, has eliminated a loophole that allowed their Bar Tab Program to be used for anything on board their cruise ships. As of today, Virgin Voyages’ Bar Tab Program can now only be used for beverages on their cruise ships and at The Beach Club at Bimini, the cruise line’s private destination in the Bahamas. Up until now, guests … [Read more...]

Norwegian Cruise Line became the latest cruise line to have all of their ships back in service when Norwegian Spirit resumed cruises. All 17 of Norwegian’s cruise ships are now offering cruises. Norwegian Cruise Line’s return to service after a 500-day pause began with Norwegian Jade’s July 25, 2021 sailing from Athens (Piraeus), Greece. Since then, Norwegian has systematically relaunched its … [Read more...]

Over the past week, Carnival Cruise Line raised some onboard prices including daily gratuities and WiFi plans. Carnival Cruise Line raised the price of Service Gratuities (aka daily tips) and are now as follows: Standard Staterooms: $14.50 USD per person, per day Suite Staterooms: $16.50 USD per person, per day This is an increase of 51 cents per day, per person. Carnival also raised the price … [Read more...]

I recently had the opportunity to take a two night preview cruise as a guest of Celebrity Cruises to check out their newest ship, Celebrity Beyond.  Celebrity Beyond is the cruise line’s third Edge class cruise ship and after just a couple days on board, the vessel impressed from bow to stern. Celebrity Beyond has a premium look and feel and this was evident as soon as I walked into the … [Read more...]

A cruise line has unveiled features that will be on their new cruise ship debuting next year that includes an outward facing pool deck and a sky bar with panoramic views from the aft of the ship. Silversea Cruises’ new ship that will debut in 2023, Silver Nova, will be built with a revolutionary asymmetrical design that will offer new outdoor spaces including an outward facing pool deck. … [Read more...]