Naysayers of escorted trips question whether travelers can have authentic experiences as part of a group. Au contraire, river cruise is one of the most enjoyable and economical ways to discover the French countryside.

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.

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

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.

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

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 ships aren't all huge or clumsy.

One byproduct of the Triumph's sad tale is that for anyone willing to cruise in the next few months, the bargains are going to be fabulous.

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

They're the opposite of a three-hour tour. High-end cruise line Silversea has announced a series of super-long voyages for autumn 2013, including t...

Not well known to the North American market, Naples-based MSC is the only privately owned Italian cruise line. Launched in May 2012, Divina is the company's newest in a fleet of 12 ships

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...

Over a period of 17 years, and in various roles, Douglas Ward has worked for nine different cruise companies, lastly as cruise director. Here are some of Ward's reflections on cruising.

Just after our first sunrise at sea, a voice on our stateroom intercom wakes us up with a cheery, "Good morning. Humpback whales are breaching on the port and starboard."

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.

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?

The Bahamian capital is also the capital of Caribbean cruising, thanks to the popularity of three- and four-day cruises calling at this iconic port. Ships line Prince George Wharf, in the heart of downtown Nassau, making it one of the most conveniently located piers in all cruisedom.

Larry Pimentel has seen a lot of water under the bridge. Literally and figuratively.

Factor in 3,000 hours of sun annually, and it's obvious why this South Florida town would be the ultimate Stateside haven for a boat-up luxury.

Our boat traveled upstream from Fleury-sur-Ouche to Escommes, on the southern portion of the Burgundy Canal.

Twain once remarked that stepping aboard an authentic steamboat, you enter "a new and marvelous world." If you haven't had that experience, you might want to put the American Queen on your bucket list.

What happens when fliers get bumped, and what to do about it.