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25 Caribbean Resorts With Beautiful Beaches You’ll Want to Visit Right Now

beach at silversands

Not every Caribbean resort is truly a beach resort. Plenty of hotels overlook the water from a hillside, stand behind a marina, or place the shoreline somewhere beyond the pool deck. And yet the beach still plays a central role in the trip. You may reach it by stepping out of your room, or after […]

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Celebrity Cruises Reveals New “Celebrity Edge” Ship

Celebrity Edge fort lauderdale

Celebrity Cruises has offered the first look at its planned “Celebrity Edge” cruise ship, which was designed completely in 3D. The 2,918-guest ship has dramatically expanded staterooms and a rather clever “magic carpet” moving ship-side platform. “Celebrity Edge is one of the most exciting, innovative and transformational ships I have ever been involved with,” said […]

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Ice Bar: The Coolest Bar in the Caribbean Is on a Cruise Ship

Where’s the coolest bar in the Caribbean? By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor This is definitely the coolest bar in the Caribbean. In fact, a more accurate description would be frigid. How better to characterize the “weather” inside Norwegian Getaway’s Svedka Vodka and Inniskillin Ice Wine Ice Bar, where the temperature is a bone-chilling 15 […]

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BVI Leading Regional Cruise Tourism Growth

The British Virgin Islands is the fastest-growing cruise destination in the Caribbean, according to the latest numbers from the Caribbean Tourism Organization. The archipelago reported a total of 699,105 cruise passenger arrivals last year, a 35.4 percent increase over 2015. That was the largest increase of any destination in the Caribbean, followed by Martinique at […]


Ice Bar: The Coolest Bar in the Caribbean Is on a Cruise Ship

Carnival Cruise Line has expanded its Carnival Journeys “enrichment” cruise series with a host of new 12- to 14-day voyages departing from homeports along the East and West Coasts and the Gulf of Mexico in 2018 and 2019. The new voyages are in addition to a number of previously announced nine- to 15-day Carnival Journeys cruises departing […]

Norwegian Cruise Line Adding Four New Ships

Norwegian Cruise line Holdings is expanding its fleet. The company has reached an agreement with shipbuilder Ficantieri S.p.A. to build the next generation of its Norwegian Cruise Line brand. Four ships are now on order for delivery in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The four 140,00 gross ton ships will each accommodate around 3,300 guests, […]

Guy Harvey's Conservation Cruise

Norwegian Cruise Line is partnering with the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation and Nova Southeastern University’s Guy Harvey Research Institute to host an ocean conservation-themed Cruise on Norwegian Escape this fall. Departing Oct. 21 from Miami, the cruise will have guests experience an exciting week of breathtaking tropical destinations, along with the opportunity to meet Harvey […]

The 5 Best All-Inclusive Cruises

There are different all-inclusive cruises for just about every kind of traveler. But at the end of the day, we all sail to explore, to see something new, to feel the water, to experience the joy of the unknown. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that cruise ships comes with a large amount of unlimited (usually culinary) […]

Curaçao Begins Work on Second Cruise Pier

Curaçao has begun work on the construction of its second mega cruise pier, according to the Curaçao Ports Authority. The Tula Pier, which is located in Willemstad’s Otrabanda area, is a $43 million project. The Ports Authority says the project will help keep up with increasing cruise demand. Over the next few months, supplies, including […]

Antigua and Barbuda Bullish on Cruise Sector

Antigua and Barbuda is bullish on its cruise sector. Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Minister Asot Michael says he is “very encouraged” about the future of the country’s cruise sector, following a visit to cruise line offices in South Florida. Last week, Michael engaged in discussions and gave presentations to executives from lines including Carnival, Royal […]

Carnival Expanding Bermuda Cruises

Carnival Cruise Line will offer a series of four-day Bermuda cruises from New York in the spring and summer of 2018, the company announced this week. The four-day “long weekend” cruises will depart Thursdays and feature-day visit to Bermuda where guests can relax on the island’s pink beaches, enjoy snorkeling, kayaking and other water sports, […]

Viking Ocean Cruises Adds New Viking Sky Ship

Viking Ocean Cruises has taken delivery of its fourth ship, the luxury small-ship brand announced this week. The new Viking Sky is sister ship to the company’s existing Viking Star and Viking Sea. The ship will set sail from Rome before heading later this year to the Americas and the Caribbean. “In the past two […]

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