The world's largest cruise ship, Harmony of the Seas, is now sailing out of Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, FL. The massive, 5,500 passenger Oasis-class ship from Royal Caribbean arrived in November 2016 and along with sister ship Allure of the Seas sails year-round, seven-night, Eastern and Western Caribbean cruises.…
Excitement is starting to build as MSC's new ship, MSC Seaside, is less than a year away from making her debut in Miami for year-round cruises to the Caribbean. The 4,140 passenger ship is currently under construction and is set to sail from PortMiami on December 21, 2017. She will join…
Carnival Corporation's fathom line, which offered people-to-people cruises to the Dominican Republic and more recently Cuba, will see soon its final sailings. As I and many others have predicted, the concept of taking a vacation to do humanitarian aid in underdeveloped counties wasn't what cruise goers wanted to do on…
If you're cruising on Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Sky August 25 through October 20, 2016 and were hoping to stop at the line's private island in the Bahamas, you're out of luck. Great Stirrup Cay is set to go under the knife for some much needed rehab work which will…
Royal Caribbean is expanding its fleet of Oasis-class ships on the heels of the launch of the latest – and world's largest cruise ship - Harmony of the Seas. Launched earlier this month, Harmony joins sisters Allure of the Seas and Oasis of the Seas in a unique class of…
Two new ships are coming to Disney Cruise Line, the Walt Disney Company announced today. The new cruise ships will be larger than the newest ships in the fleet, Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy, and will weigh in at 135,000 gross tons and have 1,250 staterooms each. The @disneycruiseline fleet…
More ships are making their way into the MSC Cruises fleet and they're big! Today the company announced they will build two new ships that will hold 6,300 passengers when booked to full capacity, around the same number Royal Caribbean's Oasis-class cruise ships carry. The Meraviglia Plus-class ships are based…
My favorite cruise ship recently emerged from drydock with some exciting changes. The “Big E,” or Holland America Line's ms Eurodam, spent 14-days in the Bahamas getting several new concepts that the Seattle-based cruise line announced earlier in the year as part of a $30M fleet renovation project. Many of…
Some very exciting news was announced by MSC Cruises this morning and it is certainly a game-changer for the cruise industry in South Florida. The company is investing $200 million to develop their own private island in the Bahamas, called Ocean Cay and from details revealed in today's press release,…
Last Thanksgiving I was on the inaugural sailing of what was then Royal Caribbean's newest ship, Quantum of the Seas. This year, I'll be celebrating another Royal Thanksgiving on Independence of the Seas on quick four-night Western Caribbean cruise out of Fort Lauderdale. Independence of the Seas is one of…
