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When bookings first opened for Virgin Voyages, there was a secret destination included on all itineraries. This was a mystery port that the vessel called at either on the first day or last day. Through process of elimination it could…
Hello from Jacksonville airport. I wanted to share with you a neat, off-the-beaten-path spot I found. Around an hour south of Jacksonville is the town of St Johns. Across the St Johns River is the smaller town of Green Cove…
Genting group is a company that is quite diversified. The Malaysian company has casinos, the worlds largest hotel, a real estate company, a plantation company, several cruise lines and a shipyard consortium. The intention is to build the fifth largest…
UPDATE 2023: Disney has now purchased the vessel and released this rendering. An earlier version of the vessel included a slightly different arrangement of her funnels. There appears to be two sets of double funnels in this newly released one…
The below originally posted in 2017. You can follow along with the 2019 restrictions here. UPDATE 6/16/2017 PM:The new policy for US-Cuban relations going forward is out. As predicted, it won’t interfere with cruise operations too much. The relations will…
When Carnival Corp CEO Arnold Donald took the stage earlier today at the annual CES show in Las Vegas, he became the first travel industry executive to give a keynote at the show. Carnival went all out this year, their…
This post originally appeared on CruiseInd 8 years ago and goes over the background of how Americans could legally cruise to Cuba. It was posted just prior to Royal Caribbean announcing that the Empress of the Seas would be their…
There has been a lot of talk about LNG and fuel cells as use on cruise ships, but what does it actually mean. BACKGROUND Thus far, there have been some small ferries, riverboats and some offshore supply vessels that have…
Carnival Corp. surprised the industry last year when they not only ordered 9 ships, but ordered most of them with LNG fueled power plants. LNG is still new to the maritime industry with only a handful of commercial vessels using…
Originally Published February 7, 2016 10:03 am By now you’ve heard that Crystal Cruises have partnered with the SS United States Conservancy to help restore the 1952 built ship back to service. First, a bit of history. The United States Lines…