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Lost Australian Cruise Ship Passenger Remebered

AP | Posted 05.23.2013 | Travel

SYDNEY -- One of two Australians who plunged from a cruise ship in mysterious circumstances two weeks ago was remembered on Thursday as a hero who die...

Cruise Industry Announces Passenger Bill Of Rights

AP | By BETH J. HARPAZ | Posted 05.23.2013 | Travel

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...

Get The 'Rockette Workout' Aboard Norwegian Cruise Ship

AP | BETH J. HARPAZ | Posted 05.15.2013 | Travel

ABOARD NORWEGIAN BREAKAWAY -- I'd been at sea on Norwegian Cruise Line's new ship, Norwegian Breakaway, for more than 14 hours but I didn't feel the s...

One Insane Day in Albania. (Yes, Albania.)

Peter Mandel | Posted 05.08.2013 | Travel
Peter Mandel

Color is coming back to the now-independent free-market democracy. A bit of the Balkan Peninsula, it's only slightly larger than Maryland. But there's variety inside that space, including a mountain-studded interior and an unspoiled Adriatic coastline.

Is This the Best Docking Spot Ever?

The GypsyNesters | Posted 04.21.2013 | Travel
The GypsyNesters

Traveling by cruise ship is not always our favorite way to explore new places. Nothing against the food, flair, and fun onboard, it's just that when i...

Afraid of Cruising? Smaller Ships Are My Passion

Jean Newman Glock | Posted 04.16.2013 | Travel
Jean Newman Glock

I have been fortunate to sail on almost all of the five star cruise lines sailing today and have sailed most itineraries. While I would choose an ocean liner for any ocean crossing, for everything else, I look for small.

'Sea Is Too Loud' And Other Crazy Cruise Complaints

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 04.02.2013 | Travel

A list of the wackiest cruise complaints from BonVoyage.co.uk has been making waves, with gems such as a woman grumbling that the ocean was "too loud"...

PHOTOS: The Next Wave Of Cruise Ships

WHERE | Posted 05.20.2013 | Travel
WHERE

Tanned travelers disembark each day at ports of call around the world for earthbound adventures and return to elegant staterooms each evening. But it ...

Carnival Does It Again!

Andrew Burmon | Posted 05.14.2013 | Travel
Andrew Burmon

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.

When Are Cruise Lines Accountable?

Spencer Aronfeld | Posted 05.13.2013 | Travel
Spencer Aronfeld

As the shore slowly fades into the horizon so do the legal rights of cruise ship passengers.

Will Carnival Cruises Get Safer?

AP | Posted 05.13.2013 | Travel

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — In a story March 12 about a cruise conference, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Carnival Cruise Lines owns th...

Cruise Bookings 'Have Not Been Impacted' Despite Disaster

AP | By BETH J. HARPAZ | Posted 04.17.2013 | Travel

NEW YORK (AP) — Some travel agents say cruise prices and bookings have not yet been affected by reports about a disabled Carnival ship, but others i...

How America's Greatest Ocean Liner Became This Wreck

Andrew Burmon | Posted 02.13.2013 | Travel

Over the weekend an engine room fire aboard the Carnival Triumph shut down the massive cruise ship's motors, leaving it adrift in the Gulf of Mexico. ...

PHOTOS: Cruise Trends For 2013

AP | BETH J. HARPAZ | Posted 02.07.2013 | Travel

NEW YORK -- Cruise trends as the 2013 season gets under way are shaping up to include a bigger focus on multi-generational groups, more specialty food...

Wave Season Keeps Cruises Afloat

AP | BETH J. HARPAZ | Posted 04.08.2013 | Travel

NEW YORK — Cruise watchers looking back at the industry's past year say the Concordia disaster affected everything from prices to safety drills ...

The World's Best Small Cruise Ships

Conde Nast Traveler | Posted 01.18.2013 | Travel
Conde Nast Traveler

Condé Nast Traveler readers voted in our 2012 Cruise Poll and here are the results: the best small ships in the world.

2013's Most Promising Shore Excursions

Courtney Scott | Posted 03.19.2013 | Travel
Courtney Scott

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.

'Monster' Cruise Ships Threaten Venice

Agence France Presse | Gildas Le Roux | Posted 03.13.2013 | Travel

A year on from the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster, the luxury liners that ply the waters just in front of St Mark's Square in Venice are stirrin...

Enormous New Cruise Ship Scheduled For 2016

Posted 10.26.2012 | Travel

Royal Caribbean has confirmed its plans to develop a third Oasis-class ship that could potentially carry more than 5,000 passengers. The new vesse...

Picking The Right Cruise Stateroom

Anita Dunham-Potter | Posted 12.01.2012 | Travel
Anita Dunham-Potter

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.

12 Ways To Keep Your Cruise Budget Afloat

Anita Dunham-Potter | Posted 11.20.2012 | Travel
Anita Dunham-Potter

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.

The Secret Life Of A Cruise Ship Lecturer

Peter Mandel | Posted 11.11.2012 | Travel
Peter Mandel

When I get a last minute phone call to fill in for a sick shipboard lecturer, I am slightly nervous: What if I bring some sort of new virus aboard? Or what if -- as seems a lot more likely -- I end up boring passengers to death?

How Could the Sinking of the Titanic Have Been Prevented?

Quora | Posted 07.11.2012 | Travel
Quora

This question originally appeared on Quora. By Chris O'Regan, Amateur Titanic enthusiast from Brisbane 1. Titanic could have been constructed with...

Ask Airfarewatchdog: Cruising From New York City

George Hobica | Posted 07.07.2012 | Travel
George Hobica

Over 20 different ships and nearly a dozen cruise lines visit ports around New York and some, such as the new Disney Magic, are even based at them year round.

Debate Continues On SC Cruise Ships

AP | BRUCE SMITH | Posted 06.23.2012 | Travel

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Two years after Charleston became a year-round cruise destination, the arguments over the liners and their impact on this hi...