With just four months to go before Celebrity Xcel enters service, the fifth Edge-class ship from Celebrity Cruises revealed more details about spaces and experiences guests can look forward to, such as pool parties and retro games. The 3,260-guest new-build is under construction at the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in France and will sail her
Celebrity Infinity’s current 7-night voyage to Greece has met a major hiccup. While docked in Kusadasi, Turkey, on July 7, 2025, the 2,170-guest ship allegedly experienced a small electrical fire that led to a power outage. It’s unclear exactly when and where the fire occurred, but these situations are most common in engine rooms around
More than 24 hours after she was supposed to depart Vancouver to begin a 7-night Alaska Inside Passage sailing, satellite tracking data confirms that Royal Caribbean’s Serenade of the Seas finally began moving at about 6:30 p.m. local time. The ship had initially departed Vancouver’s Canada Place cruise terminal Sunday afternoon, but turned around and
While Florida is known for its hot summer, things got way too hot on a bus taking cruise guests home from their vacation over the weekend. A bus taking recently disembarked cruise passengers from their Florida cruise port to Georgia spontaneously caught fire on the morning of Saturday, July 5, 2025, while driving along Interstate
Another change in dry dock scheduling has hit Carnival Cruise Line, this time impacting a total of five sailings aboard Carnival Breeze. The cruise line has reached out to booked guests, alerting them to the cancellations and offering alternatives (with incentives!) if they wish to rebook. The following sailings are now cancelled for Carnival Breeze:
Royal Caribbean’s Serenade of the Seas has returned to Vancouver just two hours after setting sail, with as-yet-undisclosed technical issues having a significant impact on her current sailing. The ship was to have departed Vancouver on Sunday, July 6, 2025 for a 7-night Inside Passage sailing in Alaska. While Serenade of the Seas did in
Speculation has run high about the plans for Norwegian Breakaway and Norwegian Prima following the mass cancellation of more than 40 sailings aboard the two ships. Now, Norwegian Cruise Line has revealed the new sailings and homeports for both vessels, with options that will be very exciting for cruisers. New Homeport for Norwegian Breakaway A
Every cruise traveler daydreams about their upcoming sailing, hoping for an amazing vacation with beautiful weather, delicious food, outstanding entertainment, spectacular service, and more. Unfortunately, even a seemingly perfect cruise can have bad experiences, but that doesn’t mean the cruise line is at fault. One recent Carnival cruiser disagrees and believes the cruise line should
We just crossed the halfway point for 2025 and already Cunard’s 2027 launch is off to a fast start. The cruise line reported a 55 percent increase in nights booked during the first week of its 2027 program release compared to the same period last year. And much of that momentum comes from both the
If you’re an avid cruiser, then you’re probably a member of at least one cruise line loyalty program. However, if you cruise with a handful of different lines, did you know that some cruise lines offer loyalty status matching? That means, if you have a top-tier status with one cruise line, you could enjoy the
The world’s oldest cruise ship has reached the end of her storied history as Astoria has reached the scrapyard, where she will be broken after 77 years of service. The 15,614-gross ton ship’s last journey has been a relatively short one, as she has been laid up in Rotterdam following the closing of Cruise &
Everyone’s talking about how the second Icon-class cruise ship, Star of the Seas, is about to enter service at the end of August. But the third Icon-class ship, Legend of the Seas, is well on her way to beginning her own career at sea and has just met a major construction milestone at the Meyer
