 
      
      Our Complete Guide to Packing for a Wonderful Caribbean Cruise
This is our essential guide to packing for a Caribbean cruise, complete with all the items you’ll need to enjoy a wonderful cruise vacation both onboard and during your shore excursions.
 
      
      Five Best Ways to Prepare for Cruising the Drake Passage to Antarctica
When you take a cruise to Antarctica, you’ll have to deal with the Drake Passage, a notoriously rough stretch of seas off the southern tip of South America. These are our best tips and tricks for how to prepare so that you can have the best Antarctica cruise experience.
 
      
      Our Guide to Cruising in Antarctica: Best Cruise Lines and Ship Styles
Antarctica continues as a popular bucket-list travel destination, best reached by a cruise ship. This is our guide to the types of cruise ships — from large cruise ships to small expedition vessels — that offer cruises to Antarctica so you can have an idea of what’s available and figure out what appeals to you for your ultimate Antarctica cruise vacation.
 
      
      Atlas Ocean Voyages Offers Exciting New Arctic Expeditions
Atlas Ocean Voyages’ new 2027 Arctic cruises go to the Canadian Arctic, Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard. These trips showcase these remote polar regions at their most majestic while sailing aboard Atlas Ocean Voyages’ comfy and stylish expedition yachts.
 
      
      VIVA Cruises’ New Ships and Itineraries that We’re Excited About
VIVA Cruises’ 2027 cruise program is the most comprehensive in the luxury cruise line’s history, featuring new destinations, new ships and cruises available all year long.
 
      
      Small Luxury Cruise Line Swan Hellenic Offers Cultural Expeditions in Southeast Asia for First Time
Swan Hellenic is offering four new cruises, its first expedition voyages to Southeast Asia, visiting places like Japan and the Philippines.
 
      
      National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions and Celebrity Cruises Launch European River Cruises
Celebrity Cruises is building two innovative new river ships for Rhine River and Danube River cruises. Also, longtime expedition cruise leader National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions has partnered with Transcend Cruises to offer river cruise expeditions in Europe.
 
      
      Four New Awesome Small-Ship Cruise Itineraries That You Have to Try
UnCruise Adventures is offering exciting new expedition cruises in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. Also, we love the new small-ship trips from AmaWaterways in Colombia, Atlas Ocean Voyages in the Canadian Arctic and Australis in Patagonia.
We Tried Riverside Luxury Cruises’ New Beer-Themed River Cruise
Riverside Luxury Cruises has launched its exciting new beer-themed Hops & Heritage cruises in Europe. This is the ideal trip for beer lovers who want to learn more about the history of beer making and try new flavors from around the world.
 
      
      I Took a Victory Cruise Lines Cruise to All 5 Great Lakes
Victory I offers all-inclusive cruises on a variety of Great Lakes itineraries. We joined the 202-passenger cruise ship for a wonderful 10-day Great Lakes cruise that visited all five Great Lakes.
 
      
      5 Reasons You’ll Love a Dutch Tulips River Cruise with VIVA Cruises
A VIVA Cruises tulips cruise on the Dutch waterways is a wonderful way to celebrate spring in wonderful cities in Europe. I went on the Viva Enjoy river cruise ship to experience the amazing food, colorful flowers and interesting history of the great port cities on our itinerary.
 
      
      We Took a Lower Danube River Cruise on Europe’s Best Cruise Ship
A Lower Danube River cruise offers a different pace and feel from the Upper Danube itinerary. We did our first cruise on this part of the river with Riverside Luxury Cruises on the beautiful 154-passenger Riverside Mozart, departing from Budapest for our week of fun.
 
      
      Five Reasons Travelers Should Consider a Barge Cruise with French Country Waterways
Our barge cruise in France with French Country Waterways marked the smallest cruise vessel — eight cruisers capacity — that we’ve experienced yet, and it was a fantastic experience.
 
      
      Tahiti’s Top Cruise Ship Receives Multi-Million-Dollar Facelift
Top Tahiti cruise ship MS Paul Gauguin has received an impressive refurbishment. New amenities include a contemporary redesign of the Le Grill restaurant and pool deck upgrades.
 
      
      AmaWaterways Launches Its New Luxury River Cruise Ship on Colombia’s Magdalena River
The new luxury river ship AmaMagdalena is the first of its kind to offer river cruises in Colombia on the historic Magdalena River.
 
      
      Carnival Reveals Names of New Ships, Fleet Enhancements,Deployment Plans and Exciting Destination Updates
Carnival Cruise Line revealed the name of two new ships coming in 2027 and 2028. Carnival Festivale and Carnival Tropicale will be the next ships in the line’s popular Excel Class.
 
      
      How Is Norwegian Aqua Different from Norwegian Prima and Norwegian Viva?
Norwegian Aqua is larger and more spacious that its predecessors in the Prima Class, Norwegian Prima and Norwegian Viva. Cruisers will enjoy a range of differences that allow Norwegian Aqua to stand out from other Norwegian Cruise Line ships.
 
      
      Viking’s 10 Most Popular Cruise Voyages You Should Look at Now
Viking offers river cruises, ocean cruises and expedition cruises that touch every part of the world. We’re sharing a list of the most popular Viking cruise itineraries for travelers to consider now.
 
      
      My Caribbean Sailing Adventures with Sea Cloud Cruises on Sea Cloud Spirit
Sea Cloud Cruises offers Caribbean sailing voyages on 136-passenger Sea Cloud Spirit, departing from the home port of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
 
      
      AmaWaterways Creates New River Cruise Itineraries that Go All Out for Fitness-Focused Travelers
AmaWaterways has designed a series of river cruises that are focused on wellness, health and fitness with group classes and active shore excursions, such as longer hikes and bike rides in Europe.
