Created by Cruise Fever Just over a week ago, cruise ships that were essentially stuck in the Persian Gulf due to the conflict began to make their move. The first ship to leave port, after being docked for 47 days, was Celestyal Discovery. Today, that ship has successfully passed through the Suez Canal and has...

Created by Cruise Fever The Port of San Diego and Disney Cruise Line just signed a new deal that will ramp up cruises over the next 5 years. In fact, the new plan is to double the number of sailings out of the California cruise port. According to a press release from the Port of...

Created by Cruise Fever A few weeks ago, Princess Cruises announced that they were adding Arrival Groups, aka staggered embarkation, on two cruise ships that were sailing to Alaska from Seattle this summer. Now, Princess is adding Arrival Groups for cruises out of Fort Lauderdale and Port Canaveral. The cruise line said that guests will...

Created by Cruise Fever Hundreds of cruisers are thousands of dollars out of pocket and looking for answers after a major music cruise was canceled at the last minute. The Capital Jazz SuperCruise, scheduled for late March 2026, never left the dock. Now, the state of Maryland is stepping in to find out where the...

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,...