Oceania Marina, due to launch next year, is one of many exciting new ships on the horizon. Photo courtesy of Oceania Cruises

If you believe the Miami Herald, the “era of grand innovation in ship design [is] waning.”

Really?

Certainly, ships aren’t being built at the [...]

Norwegian Sun, shown here in Vancouver, BC, will homeport for the winter in Port Canaveral, Florida. Photo © Aaron Saunders

This October, Port Canaveral is preparing to welcome back a friend who’s been absent for eleven years. Norwegian Cruise Line last homeported a ship in Port [...]

Downtown Ketchikan on a rare sunny day. Photo © Aaron Saunders As the self-proclaimed “Salmon Capital of the World”, two things are quickly apparent about the pretty little town of Ketchikan, Alaska: one, there’s lots of salmon.  Two – it rains here.  A lot. But the average 3,900 [...]

“Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time yet devised.”  - Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886 – 1959)
As part of Robert Falcon Scott’s infamous last expedition to the South Pole in 1910-13, Apsley Cherry-Garrard and his companions endured hardships that are difficult to imagine in this [...]

 North Sawyer Glacier in Tracy Arm, Alaska. Photo © Aaron Saunders

Yesterday, approximately 16,000 passengers passed through Vancouver’s Canada Place and Ballantyne piers in the single-busiest day of the Alaska cruise season. 

With the exception of this extraordinary Sunday, the 2010 Alaska season was quieter than [...]