Cape Town is preparing for a bumper cruise season for 2023/24 with more ships and cruise passengers expected as the cruise industry recovers from the disruption caused by the pandemic.
Stretches of AIDAsol’s 2024/2025 world cruise have opened for sale, with 33- to 84-night legs of the voyage now available for booking, including the portion visiting South Africa.
Swan Hellenic has released details of its 2024 cruises with itineraries across the world, including South Africa, the Mediterranean, the Arctic, Antarctica, Brazil, and more.
Comic Con Africa has announced an exciting new addition to its line-up of events for next year, with the exhibition taking to the seas with MSC Cruises from March 15th to 18th.
Regent Seven Seas Cruises has launched its 2025/26 voyage collection, with a host of new itineraries featuring Arabia and Africa, including calls in Doha, Qatar and Port Louis, Mauritius for the very […]
Holland America Line has released the itineraries and opened bookings for two of its 2025 Grand Voyages, including the Pole-to-Pole and Grand World Voyage, which features a 45-day Cape Town leg.
Silversea Cruises will return to South Africa to sail a homeport cruise season out of Cape Town for the first time in six years for 2023/24, but will also be sailing a […]
MSC Cruises SA, the South African division of the Italian cruise line, expects to see minimal growth in the number of cruise passengers sailing out of Durban, according to Ross Volk, MD […]
Cape Town has seen its busiest cruise season on record with 75 cruise ship calls and 41 turnaround visits during the 2022/23 season, bringing more than 145,000 cruise passengers and 42,000 crew […]
The friends and loved ones of a South African cruise passenger who died after falling overboard from a cruise ship in the Pacific have expressed their immense sadness, according to SA People.
Carnival Corporation’s ultra-luxury brand Seabourn has announced a 90-day Grand Voyage circumnavigation of Africa for 2024, with Seabourn Sojourn departing Barcelona, Spain on November 30th next year.
Cape Town has seen significant growth in its tourism industry, with the support of its cruise tourism sector, but Durban has experienced only marginal growth, undermined by persistent load-shedding, health concerns regarding […]
Holland America Line will sail what is believed to be the first ever Grand Voyage “Pole-to-Pole” roundtrip from the United States of 133 days in 2025, along with a simultaneous 124-day 2025 Grand World Voyage.
The ultra-luxury cruise line Regent Seven Seas Cruises, a brand of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, has announced five new Grand Voyages as part of the line’s 2025/26 cruise collection, with two voyages […]
The boutique premium cruise line Azamara has expanded its offering of AzaMazing Evenings to include experiences in the Middle East this yeas as it celebrates the launch of these immersive event offerings […]
Oceania Cruises has expanded its Free Land Programs to include Dubai and Cape Town on its 2024 voyages, along with 24 other select cruises visiting Africa, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and […]
The luxury cruise line Silversea will cruise from Port Elizabeth for the first-time next year aboard Silver Cloud on a grand voyage through the Indian Ocean.
MSC Cruises SA, the South African subsidiary of MSC Cruises, has launched an Easter deal for the local market on its cruises out of Cape Town and Durban for the coming 2023/24 […]
Queen Mary 2 has arrived in Durban, South Africa, marking her first port call in the country since the COVID-19 pandemic, and providing a significant boost to local tourism revenue in the […]
Swan Hellenic has announced its cultural expedition cruises of Africa for 2023 aboard SH Vega and SH Diana, which will sail nine different cultural expedition cruises between March and November 2023.