Famous for its freestyle dining, all-inclusive options and Broadway entertainment, Norwegian Cruise Line punches above its weight among the Big Three cruise lines.
Cruise line focus: Norwegian Cruise Line
Shaun Ebelthite
Founder and editor of Cruise Arabia & Africa. I try to create the best news and information specifically for cruise passengers taking cruises to and from Dubai (where I live) and South Africa (where I was born). You can contact me at shaun(at)cruisearabiaonline.com.
Cruise line focus: Oceania Cruises
Oceania Cruises is a premium cruise line that focuses on gourmet food and port-intensive cruise itineraries aboard luxury boutique cruise ships.
Best roundtrip Dubai cruises during the 2018/2019 Middle East cruise season
Of the seven cruise ships homeporting in the Middle East for the 2018/2019 Dubai cruise season, two are among the largest in the world, one is brand new and powered by LNG, […]
Cruise line focus: P&O Cruises
P&O Cruises is one of the oldest cruise lines in the world, Britain’s largest mass-market cruise line and the only line combining the traditional cruise experience with new innovations with such aplomb.
P&O Cruises says popularity of Dubai cruise itineraries “soaring”
The popularity of Dubai as a cruise destination as well as embarkation port for Middle East cruise itineraries is “soaring”, according to Paul Ludlow, Senior Vice President, P&O Cruises.
Cruise line focus: P&O Australia
P&O Australia is a sister brand to P&O in the UK, but it couldn’t be more different, with a more super-casual approach to cruising and a focus on jam-packed entertainment and activities […]
Cruise line focus: Paul Gauguin Cruises
Paul Gauguin Cruises is a luxury cruise line specialising in boutique environmentally-friendly cruising among the 118 islands of French Polynesia.
Cruise line focus: Phoenix Reisen
Phoenix Reisen offers a low-key, laid-back cruise experience, which fits well with the middle-aged to retired German demographic that it targets.
Cruise line focus: Princess Cruises
Princess Cruises is a premium line that balances a traditional cruise experience against new innovations like Movies Under the Stars and flexible Anytime Dining.
Cruise line focus: Pullmantur Cruises (Defunct)
Pullmantur offered a traditional cruise experience with a Spanish flair aboard a fleet of older cruise ships that had been thoroughly refurbished to Spanish tastes. It declared bankruptcy in 2020 during the […]
Cruise line focus: Regent Seven Seas Cruises
Regent Seven Seas Cruises is perhaps the most inclusive cruise line, offering a traditional luxury cruise experience at high-end prices that include almost every aspect of the voyage, from airfare to laundry.
Pullmantur Cruises to sail first ever Middle East cruise season out of Dubai in 2018/19
Pullmantur Cruises will bring its cruise liner Horizon to Dubai in the coming 2018/19 Middle East cruise season. The cruise line will homeport in the Arabian Gulf for the first time ever […]
Cruise Line Focus: Royal Caribbean International
Cruising is a popular tradition and Royal Caribbean International, with over 40 years’ experience pioneering firsts at sea, boasts not only the world’s largest cruise ships but also the opportunity to change […]
Cruise line focus: Saga Cruises
Saga Cruises is the world’s most avowedly adults-only cruise line, with an over-50s policy and a focus on timeless British cruise traditions that has seen it achieve huge success.
When will the QE2 Hotel in Dubai open?
Editor’s note: Staff at QE2 Dubai confirmed on April 10th that the floating hotel will in fact open on the 18th, just as we guessed below. It’s the number one question that […]
Cruise line focus: Seabourn Cruise Line
Seabourn is one of the world’s preeminent luxury lines. With intuitive service, superb cuisine, relatively inclusive extras and an atmosphere that is elegant but unpretentious, it is the cruise line against which […]
Cruise line focus: Sea Cloud Cruises
Sea Cloud Cruises offers a ‘paired down’ luxury cruise experience aboard a two-ship fleet of the most beautiful clipper sailing cruise ships in the world. RELATED: 10 insider cruise tips to take […]
AIDA Cruises appoints Germany’s first female cruise ship captain
It’s almost unbelievable, but Germany, one of the most progressive nations in the world, has until now had not a single female German cruise ship captain. Nicole Langosch became the first in […]
Cruise line focus: Silversea Cruises
Silversea is a luxury cruise company with a mainstream cruise fleet and an expedition fleet that explores the most remote corner of the world, it is the world’s most formal cruise line, […]
Cruise line focus: SeaDream Yacht Club
SeaDream Yacht Club is like the luxury cruise experience of Seabourn, but aboard much smaller ships that feel more like private yachts than commercial passenger ships.
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