NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The chief of the Brentwood, Tenn., fire department says he knew a cruise with his wife and six teenagers would make memories...

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says a 59-year-old woman has been taken from a cruise ship off the North Carolina coast to a Virgin...

NEW YORK (AP) — The cruise industry said Wednesday that it's adopting a passenger bill of rights that guarantees the "safety, comfort and care" of g...

Plenty of things can go wrong on a cruise vacation. You could get seasick, or sleep through breakfast, or lose at blackjack, or puke over the rail, or god forbid be on a cruise ship that's lost power and drifting out to sea.

If you ask regular cruisers, they might tell you to avoid the cigar bar or the Lido Pool area. But for me, it's the art auction area.

The Carnival Dream, currently stranded on St. Maarten thanks to a generator failure, is just the latest ship in the cruise line's fleet to be crippled by prolonged exposure to sea water.

For the last several months, independent radio host Jesse Thorn has been asking his listeners to sign up for updates from Boatparty.biz, a website tha...

It's wave season, which means many travelers are booking their cruise vacations for the year.

Welcome to wave season, when most of the major cruise lines slash cruise prices to insanely good deals. This year, many of the big guns are sweetening the pot with cash-back bonuses to spend on once-in-a-lifetime shore excursions.

The average hotel room in the United States measures 300 square feet; in contrast, the average cruise cabin measures about 175 square feet. It's what you get for that space that's important.

Cruising is one of the best vacation values going. But if you're not careful, you can easily spend more for onboard extras than you did on the cruise fare. The key to avoiding a bank-breaking bill is knowing what to expect.

More and more I'm noticing that cruise lines are promoting "home-port" cruise travel, which is sailing on a ship that is within a two-hour drive from home.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Dubai has settled on a use for the Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise liner it bought for $100 million five years ago, with plans...

What does it take to stock a ship this size? Ten thousand rolls of toilet paper, for starters.

While you could easily spend all your time on board the ship, enjoying all the comforts of home (and way more), the only thing stopping you from having incredible, unforgettable experiences in port are your own misconceptions about cruise travel.

You want to have the time of your life on your vacation with no hassles -- or at least as few as possible -- and the last thing you need is a robbery or theft. Here are some useful tips I've collected on my recent travels.

Cruising may not be your first vacation choice in the wake of last week's Costa Concordia crash, but the resilient cruise industry is moving full steam ahead.

An ancient castle, old colorful fishing boats which bob in the water and painters painting what appear to be masterpieces in the incredible light that make the village of Collioure a profound place to visit.

At each port cruisers have three options: hop on an awaiting tour bus to enjoy the guided excursion purchased from the cruise line, meet a private guide at the port for a private tour or walk boldly into the unknown -- guidebook in hand of course.

If you're lucky and savvy you can have a bargain adventure as the crew paints and otherwise spiffs up the vessel around you.

Cruising is, in many ways, anathema to the "back door travel" philosophy that I've been preaching for 30 years. My goal with this new book is to enable people who want the ease, economy, and fun of a cruise to travel efficiently and independently in the ports.

I stand atop this floating city of fun playing putt-putt golf and scanning the horizon for Mallorca, wondering how I'll do: Will I enjoy the people, the food, the congestion as we spill into port?

The Disney Wonder's first Alaskan port of call is the gold rush town of Skagway, where prospectors flocked by the boatload in 1896 after the glitterin...

The rugged, natural beauty of Alaska is alluring to many, though roughing it through the wilderness is not. A great way to take in all that Alaska has...