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: Pullmantur Cruises (Defunct)
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.
Carnival Cruises takes delivery of second Vista-class cruise ship Carnival Horizon
Carnival Cruises took delivery of its newest cruise ship Carnival Horizon at what it called a “traditional maritime handover ceremony” at the Fincantieri shipyard in Italy on Wednesday.
Cruise line focus: Star Clippers
Star Clippers is to the age of sail what Cunard is the Golden Age of the ocean liner. It evokes that sense of nostalgia, with a fleet of three traditional sailing ships.
QE2 returns to Port Rashid after ‘shower and a shave’ drydock and propeller removal
The former Cunard ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2, now officially re-named ‘Queen Elizabeth 2 Dubai’, has been towed from Dubai Drydocks back to Port Rashid for the next stage in her life […]
AIDAstella emerges from Dubai Drydocks with new ice-cream bar
During her final Middle East cruise season sailing roundtrip out of Dubai, AIDAstella was put into drydock at Dubai Drydocks World for a 5-day refit. The German cruise line is one of […]
Cruise line focus: TUI Cruises
TUI Cruises is Germany’s largest premium cruise line, competing directly with Phoenix Reisen and Hapag-Lloyd.
Cruise line focus: Voyages to Antiquity (Defunct)
This one-ship cruise line was all about history, its cruise itineraries were inspired by the ancient past and it carried a retinue of guest experts on the destinations to which it cruised. […]
Cruise line focus: Virgin Voyages
Virgin Voyages promises casual sophistication aboard a fleet of adults-only cruise ships designed specifically for the millennial cruise market.
QE2 Hotel to launch by 3rd week of April, according to reservations team
The QE2 Hotel will open by the second or third week of April, according to the reservations team at PCFC Hotels, the operator of the new floating hotel for the former Cunard […]
Video: Inside the spectacular stretching of Silversea’s Silver Spirit
Silversea’s Silver Spirit has been cut in two at Fincantieri Shipyard in Palermo as part of her planned Silver Muse-inspired lengthening.
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