Choose Your Cruise – April 16, 2021
Spring is in the air! As the snow melts and the white and yellow daffodils start popping up, we find ourselves very close to a return to cruising! Cruise lines are starting up ships all over the world from Italy and England to the Caribbean and even Alaska. If you’ve been waiting this whole ti
Choose Your Cruise – April 9, 2021
It was a wild week in the cruise industry! First we had a handful of cruise lines announcing new sailing dates from places all over the world. Then we had the CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line call the CDC “borderline ridiculous” in an interview with Porthole Cruise Magazine Founder and Edito
Choose Your Cruise – March 26, 2021
This was a wild week in the cruise industry. CLIA and the CDC went back and forth about the Conditional Sail Order and several more cruise lines have concrete start dates in June cruisers can now book! Since we still can’t sail from American ports, these cruises leave from islands in the Baham
Celebrity Cruises Announces June 5th Return
There’s some excellent news to report from Celebrity Cruises this morning! Celebrity President and CEO Lisa Lutoff-Perlo announced this morning that the cruise line would return to service on June 5th from St. Maarten on board the recently renovated Celebrity Millennium! Bookings for the 7-nig
Cutting The Muster
Cruise fans have been eager for good news. And there’s a lot of hope hanging on the brand-new way many major megaships are managing the muster. The last time ships made a major change to muster drills was more than 10 years ago, when the colossal Oasis of the Seas took life-jackets out of cabins [
Top 3 Most Romantic Cruise Lines
Love is a beautiful thing. Sharing a vacation experience with someone special is wonderful for any relationship. Cruise lines understand that romance is alive and well on board their ships and many cater to special moments like weddings, anniversaries, engagements and more. Porthole Cruise readers w
Choose Your Cruise – September 25, 2020
Cruise lines are starting to realize that when they are allowed to sail again in America, people aren’t going to be as keen to hop on an airplane to get to their port. Driving has become the preferred method of meeting your ship at port and that means lots of cruises from nearby ports. If [&he
goop Deck: Gwyneth Paltrow’s Wellness Brand Sets Sail
No one needs an actual excuse to push the reset button on personal well-being. Lifestyle brand goop, the brainchild program of celebrity Mediterranean , is joining Celebrity Apex for a Mediterranean cruise with the spotlight trained on the inspirational aspects of the brand’s viral popularity, sup
Choose Your Cruise – July 31, 2020
Wow did July fly by or what! Tomorrow is August 1st and we’re smack dab in the middle of summertime. Today we have cruises on three brand new ships set to make their debut in 2020/2021 and YOU get to choose which one you want to cruise on. New cruise ships are almost nothing like […]
Celebrity Edge Cruise Ship Review
Celebrity Cruises Celebrity Edge by Evan Gove 1 Feet 1 Decks 1 Launched 1 Guests Overview Celebrity Edge isn’t the biggest cruise ship we’ve ever sailed on. It’s not the fanciest nor does itoffer the most amenities for passengers. But what it does have, in droves we might add, is the kin
Choose Your Cruise – June 12, 2020
One of the most amazing things about cruising these days is what the ships look like compared to just a decade or two ago. Cruising has grown from a leisure activity to one which has certain ships cater to a younger demographic of fun-seekers. There’s still plenty of relaxation to be found, bu
Cruise Lines Curate Virtual Cruise Experiences
Along with getting bigger and more luxurious, many new cruise ships are experimenting with virtual reality to enhance the passenger experience. Innovations like Royal Caribbean’s Sky Pad or the laser tag arena on the new Norwegian Encore aim to blend the real world with elements of virtual reality
Choose Your Cruise – April 3, 2020
Last week, we debuted a new column called Choose Your Cruise, where cruisers are faced with three different itineraries all over the world and asked to choose which they would most like to book. We chose three awesome cruises last week, one to Alaska, one to the Bahamas and a cruise around the Medit
Choose Your Cruise
We’re all getting the itch to cruise again, but in the meantime, let’s do the next best thing: start planning our next vacation. There are plenty of great cruise deals to take advantage of these days, particularly for cruises leaving in late 2020 and early 2021. We took a look at some of the bes
Celebrity Edge Crew Gets the Chance to Cruise like Guests
The news that thousands of cruisers would have their vacations cancelled over the next 30 to 60 days sent shockwaves around the travel industry and rightfully so. Most people plan their cruise vacation for months, if not years in advance and to have to cancel at the last minute was a devastating blo
Cruise Industry Executives Offer Encouraging Words
It hasn’t always been smooth sailing for the cruise industry, but it’s safe to say that the current outbreak of Covid-19 is the most difficult challenge cruise lines have ever faced. Last week saw every major cruise line, their sub-brands and other small ship lines included, halt operation for a
Top Ten Cruise Deals RIGHT NOW
Deals deals deals! Cruising isn’t being portrayed in the best light at the moment but there is a silver lining to this cloud: dirt cheap cruises to wherever you want to go! If cruising is your prefered method of travel, then nothing is going to stop you from taking your dream vacation. Now might j
Sneak Peek: Celebrity Apex (VIDEO)
We’re just a month away from the launch of the newest ship from Celebrity Cruises and we were blessed with a new preview video from the world famous cruise line. Celebrity Apex is currently under construction at Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in France and the innovative second-in-series
Cruise Deal of the Week – January 24, 2020
The island of Puerto Rico has been in the news lately after a series of earthquakes shook residents and caused significant damage across the island. Cruisers from all over sprung into action and started gathering supplies and donations for the people on the island. If you’re looking for a way
Gwyneth Paltrow Partners with Celebrity for goop Cruise (VIDEO)
You probably recognize her from the film Shakespeare in Love where she delivered an Oscar-winning performance or perhaps as Pepper Potts in the smash-hit Iron Man and other Marvel Comic movies. We’re of course talking about actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who recently announced a partnership between goop
