Cruise News

Princess Cruises has announced restart dates for three more cruise ships that will reenter service in 2022. From February 13 through April 22, voyages onboard three more Princess MedallionClas ships will take passengers to the Caribbean, Hawaii, and the California coast. Crown Princess, Island Princess, and Royal Princess will join the eight Princess ships set

The Celebrity Cruises female captain that’s taking social media by storm is to take the helm of the cruise line’s new cruise ship, Celebrity Beyond. Captain Kate McCue will take control of the new vessel when it debuts in Spring 2022. Celebrity Beyond Captain Captain Kate McCue, who has more than 3.5 million follows across

Several cruise lines, including Carnival Cruise Line and Virgin Voyages, are building or remodeling new cruise terminals at PortMiami that will open over the next few years. This past week I had the opportunity to cruise out of Miami and was able to take photos of the construction going on for these new terminals. Virgin

One of the most popular cruise ports in the Caribbean will reopen to cruise ships in early December after being closed for 21 months. Grand Turk Cruise Center will reopen in December 2021 and the government signed an agreement with Carnival Corporation for the extension of the Dock Facility and Improvements to the Reception Facility

With port unavailability worldwide, MSC Cruises has cancelled its planned 2022 world cruise with the MSC Poesia. However, it does mean that there will be an additional vessel offering an epic world voyage in 2023. Another Chance for a World Cruise! With the world cruise cancelled for MSC Poesia in 2022, the cruise line is

Carnival Cruise Line has had an event-filled three months since restarting passenger operations this summer, with half of its U.S. fleet back in service and sailing from six U.S. homeports — the most in cruising. Carnival Cruise Line ‘s relaunch began on July 3, 2021, when Carnival Vista sailed from Galveston, and since then, ten

Disney Cruise Line will return to popular tropical destinations in the Bahamas – including Disney’s private island, Castaway Cay – as well as the Caribbean and the Mexican Riviera – in early 2023, delighting guests of all ages with one-of-a-kind cruise vacations. A choice of spectacular itineraries will depart from home ports in the United

Despite plans to open up further for International tourism, there are no plans to open up for cruise ships in any way in the Cayman Islands. This was further confirmed this week when the government officially approved the extension of a cruise ship ban. While the ban now ends to December 31, 2021, the chances

Royal Caribbean has adjusted the final payment days for cruises in early 2022. For all Royal Caribbean cruises in January 2022, the final payment dates for sailings are now 30 days before embarkation day.  This is down from 90 days that currently applies to cruises that depart in February and beyond. The cruise line said

The maiden call of Majestic Princess, the first cruise ship to visit the City by the Bay since the industry’s global hiatus, marked Princess Cruises’ return to San Francisco. On a seven-day Classic California Coast cruise sailing roundtrip from Los Angeles, guests onboard the cruise ship visited San Francisco’s prominent sights during a port stop.

Carnival Elation is the first Fantasy-Class cruise ship to resume operations. The ship sails from her homeport of Port Canaveral on cruises to the Bahamas and the Eastern Caribbean. It is another highlight for the Miami-based cruise line, as more than half of the fleet is operational in the United States. Although Carnival Elation is

Holland America Line is thanking U.S. military personnel with a special offer that includes $100 onboard spending money on any cruise departing from San Diego, California, until the end of the year. The many military stationed in southern California will appreciate Holland America Line’s San Diego sailings. Active and former military personnel can earn the

Explora Journeys, the MSC Group’s newly launched premium cruise line, celebrated another major milestone in its coming-to-market phase today in Italy with the steel cutting of its second ship, EXPLORA II. The second vessel in Explora Journeys’ fleet of luxury ships began construction and is expected to welcome its first passengers in Spring 2024. This

Carnival Freedom restarts operations from PortMiami and becomes the next Carnival Cruise Line ship to resume operations, making twelve ships sailing in total. The Conquest-class ship will be spending the next six months sailing the Caribbean from the cruise capital of the world. With Carnival Freedom joining the party, the cruise line now has three

Carnival Cruise Line has updated their restart schedule for the remaining cruise ships in their fleet that remain out of service. Carnival Cruise Line will now have 17 cruise ships back in service by the end of the year with two more ships reentering service in the first two weeks of 2022. Carnival Sunshine will

There’s plenty to catch up on in this week’s cruise news update but it’s not all good with some Carnival ships having to remain on hold even longer. However, across the industry, there are still cruise ships restarting operations including Virgin Voyages. Cruise Update Here we go with another busy week of cruise news across

If you’ve ever gone through the process of booking a cruise on Royal Caribbean, you’ll likely have seen the additional extras available for purchase before you sail. Think tour, drink packages, and an optional program called the Key. The program, which guests can purchase access to during the booking process, has received some updates recently.

The long awaited debut of Scarlet Lady from Miami is finally here, a new adults only cruise ship from Virgin Voyages. Virgin Voyages is the world’s newest cruise line and after spending six hours on the ship last week for a special media preview, I just had to sail on Scarlet Lady to see what

Carnival Cruise Line has reached significant milestones as it returns to service with half of its U.S. fleet and brings back fun-filled vacations out of multiple U.S. homeports. There have been 237,000 guests in the first three months that have sailed with the cruise line. There’s also a video update from President, Christine Duffy, highlighting

Whether it was an unlucky turn of events or just making guests wait longer for something extraordinary is not entirely clear, but after almost 20 months of delay Virgin Voyages’ Scarlet Lady sails from Miami today. The vessel was just weeks away from her debut back in March of last year when the pandemic hit,