Year: 2020 - Page 8

Luxury river cruise line AmaWaterways has announced that it is to offer free river cruises to key workers. Described as ‘a gesture of the company’s heartfelt appreciation for the selfless sacrifices made by so many amidst these unprecedented times’ the offer will extend to frontline heroes including medical workers and…

The cruise industry’s governing body, Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), has reassured cruisers over 70 years of age that they should not need to provide doctor’s notes in order to be able to cruise going forward.  While cruise operations are currently suspended across the world, the last update from CLIA…

Before the Panama Canal was completed in 1914 – an exercise which took 30 years – trade ships had little choice but to sail around Cape Horn on the southern tip of South America. While many cruise ships today offer amazing sailings around Cape Horn, the smaller trade ships of…

Right about now, Celebrity Apex should be basking in the sun somewhere in the Mediterranean on her maiden season sailings. You might have been on the new Celebrity Cruises ship, or counting down the days to joining it to criss-cross Caribbean isles later in the year. Sadly, it’s going to…

At 3.30pm, wherever in the world the three Cunard Queens may be, the clock chimes for Afternoon Tea in the Queens Room. Time-honoured and quintessentially British, the parade of fine china, silver platters, white gloves and warm scones, set to the tinkering of a Grand piano, is a signature sea…

Next up in our quest to taste our way around all the places we’re desperate to travel to is churros, the sweet, stodgy, decidedly Spanish classic that tastes as good in Seville as it does in South America. Or in this case, right here at home. We’ve stumbled head first…

When it comes to cruising vicariously, one man capable of transporting us around the world with his stories is Wesley Dunlop. He’s set to take the helm as captain of Iona, the new P&O Cruises ship and the most exciting ever built specifically for the British market. With the ship’s launch delayed…

For the past few weeks, the nation has gathered to ‘Clap for Carers’ each Thursday. Now the crew aboard Saga’s Spirit of Discovery have come up with their own way to show their appreciation for the hard work of healthcare workers during the Coronavirus pandemic. The newest addition to the…

Balmoral, Boudicca, Braemar and Black Watch are all now based temporarily in the Firth of Forth. Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines’ ocean fleet has taken up temporary residence in Scotland’s Firth of Forth, just outside the Port of Rosyth, during their pause in cruise operations which is running until 23 May 2020.  Peter Deer, Managing…

Arne Wilhelmsen, a founder of cruise line Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd, passed away on Saturday 11 April 2020, at the age of 90. Wilhelmsen worked closely alongside its first chief executive, the late Edwin Stephan and he served more than three decades on the company’s board of directors. Richard Fain,…