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Regent Seven Seas Cruises is debuting an extensive array of plant-based meals on menus across their fleet. More than 200 plant-based selections will be offered at breakfast, lunch and dinner. These new menus have already been implemented on Seven Seas Explorer and Seven Seas Navigator and will be implemented on…

Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth kicked off its return to Alaska with a maiden call to the homeport of Vancouver. Queen Elizabeth will sail four ten-night roundtrip voyages out of Vancouver in 2019, and ten voyages in 2020. To celebrate this inaugural season, Captain Inger Klein Thorhauge, Master of Queen Elizabeth, along…

Virgin Voyages announces a series of exciting updates for its Scarlet Lady 2021 sailings. Virgin Voyages Expands Partnership with Mark Ronson Academy, Grammy and Golden Globe-winning artist and producer Mark Ronson who will join the company’s Creative Collective, it was announced earlier today. Ronson will be creating a series of pre-voyage and…

Our very own Cruise Expert Poppy Outram has been chosen to be Royal Caribbean’s ‘Royal Reporter’ on Spectrum of the Seas inaugural sailing. Back in April Royal Caribbean initiated a search to find a travel agent to name ‘Royal Reporter’ in its campaign celebrating the launch of Spectrum of the…

Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has teamed up with ORCA for an inaugural Iceland sailing on Boudicca in Summer 2019, as part of a new partnership to monitor whale and dolphin numbers and to help to conserve and protect the seas as a safe environment in which these species can live…

Silversea’s all-suite, 388-guest Silver Shadow is set to undergo an extensive refurbishment in November 2019. Silver Shadow Refurbishment The renovation will include the creation of a new Atrium area on deck 5, and major enhancements to all guest suites, corridors, and many public spaces. Part of Project Invictus, the comprehensive…

Saga Ocean Cruises‘ first-ever new-build ship, the hotly anticipated Spirit of Discovery, took to the water for the first time today ahead of her inaugural sailing this July. Spirit of Discovery, constructed in the Meyer Werft Shipyard in Germany, will now undergo a range of sea trials before her keel…

A new gin tasting experience will be based on Princess Cruises UK-based ship Sapphire Princess. Gin tasting experience on Sapphire Princess As part of the experience, Princess Cruises guests will have the opportunity to taste a range of gins, including popular brands as well as lesser-known varieties. The experience will…

Royal Caribbean has opened the first Perfect Day Island Collection destination in the Bahamas. The private island in The Bahamas debuts a combination of first-of-their-kind thrills and one-of-a-kind ways to chill that forever changes what is possible in a vacation destination featuring a 135-foot-tall waterslide, helium balloon ride, a wave pool and…

Princess Cruises’ 50th year sailing in Alaska is now underway following the arrival of Ruby Princess in America’s northernmost state. Six further ships in the Princess Cruises fleet will head to Alaska, including the 3,560-guest Royal Princess on May 11, marking the cruise line’s largest ever deployment to the region….