While the West Coast may be lamenting the reduction in ships heading north to Alaska, the East Coast – specifically the Canadian Maritimes – stands to have one of their best seasons ever. In Halifax, Silversea‘s Silver Spirit will kick off the Canada and New England cruise season on April 27th when she calls [...]

Reports are coming in from Reuters about an incident that occurred this afternoon aboard the Carnival Sensation – and while it turned out to be a non-event, nobody’s laughing.

As the ship was preparing to turn around in Port Canaveral in preparation for another short run to the Bahamas, a passenger on one [...]

Today, Princess released its 2011 Europe season for booking.  Tomorrow, Cunard will release its 2011-2012 voyages, including transatlantics, for booking by its World Club members (general booking for those who haven’t sailed with the line will come later). 

In fact, in the past two weeks, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise [...]

When it rains it pours, as the saying goes.

Here’s a quick smattering of what we have in the works for this week on From the Deck Chair:

- A Complete History of Specialty Dining

- When You Wish Upon A Star: Exploring Disney’s new Disney Dream

- The Northwest Passage Transit with [...]

 Skagway, Alaska.  
Holland America’s Zuiderdam is in the background. Photo © Aaron Saunders

A few days ago, we wrote extensively about some of the issues facing the future of West Coast cruises, many of which center around the State of Alaska’s 2006 decision to impose one of [...]