Created by Cruise Fever Carnival Cruise Line is doubling down on its commitment to Texas.  The cruise line has announced that its fifth Excel-class ship, Carnival Tropicale, will be homeporting in Galveston when it debuts in 2028. Cruise Fever just reported last month that Galveston is expecting to be able to have seven ships at...

Created by Cruise Fever Cruise lines want faster internet, and scientists want accurate hurricane data. At the center of a 6 GHz debate is a frequency that both sides claim they can’t live without. Remember the days when “cruise ship internet” was just a nice way of saying you’d spend $30 a day to watch...

Created by Cruise Fever I’ve been refreshing the cruise map for MSC Euribia every day for the past 5 days.  It’s been “off the radar” so to speak since the dramatic crossing of the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, April 18. The “dark” period wasn’t really unexpected. While the Strait of Hormuz was the first...

Created by Cruise Fever The last time a cruise ship sailed from Philadelphia was in 2011. Today, for the first time in 15 years, passengers are returning to the port. More than 2,300 passengers are now back from their 7-day sailing that left the port on April 16, 2026. Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Jewel pulled...

Created by Cruise Fever You might think that only brand-new, state-of-the-art, fresh-out-of-the-shipyard cruise ships ace their CDC health scores. But there’s one ship in the Royal Caribbean fleet that has earned multiple perfect 100s in just the last few years. While doing some research on the sanitation scores on cruise ships over recent years, one...

Created by Cruise Fever Carnival Cruise Line is testing a new dinner menu on several of their cruise ships and they are slowly rolling it out to more vessels each week. Carnival’s Brand Ambassador John Heald gave an update on the rollout of the new dinner menu this morning during his “3-minute”, usually 8-10 minutes,...

Created by Cruise Fever If you book guarantee cabins on cruises to save money, Royal Caribbean is introducing a new way where you get your cabin assignment quicker than before. Guarantee cabins are the cheapest cabins in each category on cruise ships. They are a great way to saving money, although you can’t choose the...

Created by Cruise Fever When Oceania Cruises’ newest ship, Oceania Sonata, debuts in the summer of 2027, it will have the most exclusive fine dining restaurant at sea. La Table par Maîtres Cuisiniers de France will debut on Oceania Sonata and it will be the only restaurant at sea launched with the prestigious approval of...

Created by Cruise Fever Carnival Cruise Line is tightening a policy on how cruisers carry their gear around private islands and elsewhere as collapsible wagons come into focus. For cruising families, a beach day is made a lot easier when a collapsible wagon can carry all of the essentials.  On a private island or other...

Created by Cruise Fever Princess Cruises currently has 17 cruise ships in service.  The premium cruise line is owned by Carnival Corporation and was highlighted in the hit TV show The Love Boat which first aired in 1976. Listed below is every cruise ship with Princess Cruises in order from newest to oldest.  This list...