Holland America Line will sail a series of cruises later this year that will offer a front-row seat to see the Northern Lights when they are at their brightest. These sailings on Rotterdam and Nieuw Statendam will depart in October and November and will give guests on board the best chances to see the Northern...

Villa Vie Residences, a cruise line that offers cabins you can buy and live in full-time, has announced that they will add a second cruise ship in 2029. The cruise line’s second ship, Villa Vie Legacy, will give residents a premium option when they choose to live at sea. The ship is also expected to...

Want to know how you can get the best seats in a cruise ship theater without showing up an hour before the show begins? One cruise line is piloting a program that lets you do just that, but it will come with a cost. If you have ever tried to find a decent seat in...

A new luxury cruise ship, with cabins/suites that start at around $8,000 per night, reached a major construction milestone this week at a shipyard in Genoa, Italy. Aman at Sea announced that their first ship, Amangati, was successfully floated out of the T. Mariotti shipyard in Genoa. Now that the exterior of the ship is...

A river cruise ship struck a lock structure on the Danube River in Vienna early Friday morning, leaving several passengers with minor injuries. The MS Anna Katharina collided with a quay wall and lock gate at the Freudenau lock/power plant in Vienna around 4:00AM local time on July 24, 2026. According to news reports, the...

Alaska cruises are more popular than ever.  Over 1.7 million cruise passengers visit the 49th state every year, and 66% of all visitors to Alaska arrive by cruise ship. With the region’s growing popularity, Disney Cruise Line just made a move to solidify their spot for one of the only privately owned cruise destination in...

A cruise ship sailing to Alaska continues to be plagued with passengers and crew members having gastrointestinal illnesses that have now spread on four separate sailings over the past two months. The CDC has also reported that the ship has paused passenger operations due to the outbreaks. National Geographic Sea Bird, which sails with Lindblad...

Explora Journeys, an all-inclusive luxury cruise line, took delivery of the third cruise ship to enter their fleet, EXPLORA III. The ceremony was held at Fincantieri’s Sestri Ponente shipyard in Genoa, Italy. The ceremony was attended by attended by Pierfrancesco Vago, Executive Chairman of the Cruise Division of MSC Group; Anna Nash, President of Explora...

Some upcoming guests on Carnival Cruise Line’s 5,374-passenger Carnival Jubilee are receiving notifications about some “operational changes” in late 2027. Basically, nine cruises are being canceled, but not entirely.   Here’s the interesting part. Now that we have the wording of the messages received from impacted guests, it’s looking more and more like these canceled...

Using facial recognition, photo IDs, and RFID-encoded boarding passes, cruise passengers at the Cruise Center Hamburg-Steinwerder were able to test out a new pilot program using digital self check-in for the first time. A 3,300-passenger ship just got back to Germany from an 11-day sailing to Norway, and the next group of passengers is getting...