Tag Archive: Viking Cruises
Viking Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Viking has dominated the cruise industry, offering river, ocean and now expedition cruises, and on Friday, the line celebrated its 25th anniversary. The special occasion comes weeks after the line secured the number-one River Line and Ocean Line accolades at … Read more…
5 Best Cruise Lines for LGBTQ+ Travellers
Today marks the beginning of Pride Month. First and foremost, Pride is an opportunity to raise awareness and join the fight against homophobia and transphobia. However, it is also an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of the LGBTQ+ community. LGBT … Read more…
The Best Cruises For Couples
We’ve been challenged this week. Not in any physical sense, you understand, just questioned in a fairly polite manner. It goes something like this – if Virgin Voyages are all about cruising for adults only, what other cruise lines offer … Read more…
Viking’s Big Expedition Move
By Simon & Susan Veness Stop us if you’ve heard this one before – expedition cruising is the new Black. It’s true. For all the fact the cruise world continues to develop and add new mega-ships in leaps and bounds, … Read more…
5 Up-And-Coming Cruise Destinations
It’s a common enough phrase, and it’s increasingly in usage in the travel business. “It’s a small world,” has applied ever since Mr Boeing and his jet-plane friends sent ever-larger numbers of people flying around the world with greater and … Read more…
Best Cruises for First-timers
Everyone can remember their first time. It’s that wide-eyed moment of startling realisation, a wonderful curtain-raising revelation of new frontiers and excitement. There is simply nothing like that first-time cruise experience. *Muttering from the audience* Cruising – we’re talking about … Read more…
“It’s River-Cruising, Jim, But Not As We Know It”
By Simon & Susan Veness We have two words for you this week. River cruising. There, we said it. In a world largely dominated by the ocean-going variety, we dare to raise the idea of the sedate – and … Read more…
New Cruise Ships For 2018
Cruising’s remarkable upward trend hits a new high in 2018 when there are no less than sixteen new cruise ships set to make their ocean-going debut, at a total value of a record $8.4billion. That figure of sixteen is … Read more…
A Caribbean Recovery
Most cruise ship visits in the Caribbean are about as routine as it gets. In the winter, this is the ‘Milk Run’ for cruise lines, the week-in, week-out routine that forms the basis of what they do. Cruising by numbers, … Read more…