Royal Caribbean International today laid the keel of Allure of the Seas, the second of the highly-anticipated Oasis-class cruise ships slated to redefine the industry. Today’s keel laying ceremony at STX Europe’s shipyard in Turku, Finland, marks the placement of the very first block of Allure of the Seas in the dry dock where the [...]

The QE2, short for Cunard Line’s Queen Elizabeth 2, has arrived in her final destination where she will be permanently moored and repurposed as a floating hotel. The grand ocean liner, built in 1969 and which crossed the Atlantic over 800 times and sailed around the world 25 times, was purchased by the Emirate for [...]

Oceania Cruises has just reported that while its 30,000-ton, 700-passenger cruise ship, Nautica, was transiting through the Gulf of Aden it was approached by two small skiffs attempting to intercept the ship with criminal intent.
On November 30, 2008, at approximately 9:28 a.m. local time, as the ship was within the prescribed Maritime Safety Protection Area [...]

We know the economy is slow, but are there cruise bargains out there, and how much pain are the cruise lines feeling right now?
I just read the British version of Travel weekly offering a story that read, “Oasis of the Seas bookings slow down.” At first I thought, “Ouch, that is bad. This is a [...]