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Oceania Cruises Just Made Itself Adults Only
Oceania Cruises is done with kids. As of January 7, 2026, the line only takes new bookings for guests 18 and older. That applies across all eight ships. If you booked before that date with someone under 18, you are fine. Those reservations still stand. But every new booking is adults only from here on.…
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Saguenay Is the Quebec Port Everyone Sails Past
Most people book a Canada and New England cruise for the leaf peeping and the lobster rolls. Then they treat Saguenay as the sleepy stop between the good ports. That is a mistake. Saguenay sits in Quebec, north of Quebec City, at the end of one of the longest fjords in the world. Your ship…
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What to Do About Seasickness Before It Ruins Your Cruise
Most people who get seasick on a cruise waited too long to do anything about it. By the time you feel queasy, your best options are already behind you. The mistake is treating seasickness like a headache. You do not wait for the pain and then react. You set up defenses before the ship ever…
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Cruise News Roundup for the Week of July 13 2026
Carnival just named a ship that does not exist yet, and it is going to be enormous. Here is what actually made news this past week. Carnival held a steel-cutting ceremony on Friday at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy. It marks the start of construction on the first ship in a brand new class…
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Royal Caribbean Just Put an Icon Class Ship in the Mediterranean
Legend of the Seas just started sailing. It is the newest ship in Royal Caribbean’s Icon class, and it did not go to the Caribbean. It went to Europe. Legend of the Seas arrived in the Western Mediterranean and sailed its first cruise there, with the maiden voyage set for July 4. That is a…
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The Cruise Ship Art Auction Is Free Champagne With a Catch
There is a room on your cruise ship where they hand you a glass of champagne and hope you spend two thousand dollars before you finish it. It is the art auction. Most people walk right past it. Here is how it works. A gallery called Park West runs the auctions on Celebrity, Norwegian, MSC,…
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Solo Cruising Is Not the Sad Table by the Window
Cruising alone has a reputation problem. People picture one person eating dinner while couples clink glasses nearby. That picture is wrong, and Norwegian Cruise Line has spent fifteen years proving it. Norwegian launched the first dedicated solo cabins on Norwegian Epic in 2010. These are called studio cabins. They are small inside rooms built for…
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Explora III Is About to Give MSC a Luxury Problem Worth Having
MSC owns a luxury cruise line. Most people have no idea. It is called Explora Journeys, and its third ship arrives this summer. Explora III sets sail in summer 2026. That is right now, more or less. It is the newest hardware in a fleet that is still very young, which matters more than it…
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Nuuk Greenland Just Got a Whole Lot Easier to Reach
Most cruise passengers have never set foot in Greenland. That is starting to change, and Nuuk is the reason. Nuuk is the capital of Greenland. It is also the northernmost capital on the planet. Small colorful houses climb the slopes of snow capped mountains, and the whole place feels like the edge of the map.…
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The Birth Certificate Cruise Trick That Can Strand You
You do not always need a passport to cruise. On a closed-loop sailing, one that leaves from a U.S. port and returns to that same U.S. port, a U.S. citizen can usually board with a state-certified birth certificate and a government-issued photo ID. That word closed-loop is doing a lot of work. If your ship…