Itching to get away from the chill of winter? You’re in luck. It’s currently “wave season,” the period from January through March when cruise bookings surge and cruise lines roll out their best deals.   Last year was a tough one for [...]

47 min. Rob Lovitt , NBC News contributor Ingo Wagner / Zuma Press Visitors to the Meyer-Werft shipyards look at the newbuild cruise ship ”Norwegian Breakaway” [...]

1 hr. Dori Saltzman , Cruise Critic Carnival Cruise Lines backtracked on its decision to not allow passengers on a group drag-themed sailing to dress up in drag. Carnival blamed its previous [...]

1 hr. Dori Saltzman , Cruise Critic Carnival Cruise Lines backtracked on its decision to not allow passengers on a group drag-themed sailing to dress up in drag. Carnival blamed its previous [...]

41 min. Vignesh Ramachandran A UK man is suing Thomson Cruises and booking agent Thomas Cook for “distress” caused when the ship’s staff asked passengers aboard a luxury cruise liner to be ready [...]

30 min. Adam Coulter , CruiseCritic.com PO Cruises‘ Ventura ship will have repairs made to a crack in an aluminium deck while it is in port in Southampton in the U.K. on Friday, ahead [...]

30 min. Adam Coulter , CruiseCritic.com PO Cruises‘ Ventura ship will have repairs made to a crack in an aluminium deck while it is in port in Southampton in the U.K. on Friday, ahead [...]

A female cruise passenger is suing PO Australia for $1 million Australian dollars on the grounds of sexual harassment by a judge in a talent show on board. As reported in the Sydney Morning Herald, Kate Strahan, 50, took part in the cruise [...]

Manu Fernandez / AP Workers clean up broken windows on the Louis Majesty cruise ship at Barcelona’s port on March 4, 2010. Waves of up to 26 feet high smashed into the Mediterranean cruise ship, flooding people’s cabins and breaking [...]

Lehtikuva / Reuters Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas offers Cirque de Soleil-style shows and versions of Broadway musicals onboard. But it’ll cost you extra. We challenged prevailing cruise wisdom and found that some basic beliefs [...]

Thirty-six passengers from Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas got the scare of their lives when the tour bus they were on in St. Martin plunged into a ditch Thursday morning. None were seriously injured, though several were taken to [...]

PHILADELPHIA — Caretakers for the SS United States, the legendary ocean liner moored on the Delaware River since 1996, are renewing and expanding their emergency distress call for the beleaguered piece of American maritime history. In [...]

Susan Seubert / Norwegian Cruise Line Cruise lines offer plenty of heart-pumping activities, including basketball beneath tropical skies on the Norwegian Epic. Believe it or not, on a cruise you really can lose weight — or at least break [...]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai has settled on a use for the Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise liner it bought for $100 million five years ago, with plans to turn it into a floating hotel fitted with many of the storied vessel’s original [...]

Good afternoon, I’m Michele Norris afloat on the high seas somewhere between Beijing and Bangkok …  If that sounds intriguing, you may want to block off the last two weeks in March 2013 and join the host of NPR’s “All Things Considered” [...]

May 21, 6 p.m. ET — A Norovirus-like outbreak on Fred. Olsen’s Boudicca left a reported 170 of 1,176 people (828 passengers, 348 crew) ill over the course of a 13-night cruise. The United Kingdom’s Daily Mail says the ship [...]

An elderly couple was booted from a luxury ship Saturday after the wife refused to participate in the mandatory safety drill that begins every cruise. Cruise Critic member Seabourntraveller, who’s chronicling a sailing on the 450-passenger [...]

FBI agents search for biological weapon after “parody” tweet. KPRC’s Amy Davis reports. A neurosurgeon turned “diet guru” was removed from Carnival Magic on Sunday after a Twitter account bearing his name referenced [...]

Reuters A graphic illustrating the new Costa Fascinosa, which was christened on Saturday. During a low-key event that was dramatically different from Costa Cruises’ trademark fireworks-laden christening spectaculars, the line named its [...]

Matt Stroshane / Disney Ooh La La on the Disney Fantasy is inspired by an elegant French boudoir adorned with velvet-tufted walls, Victorian furniture and Louis XIV-style chaise lounges. For adult guests only, the lounge is part of Europa, a [...]

Matt Stroshane / Disney Ooh La La on the Disney Fantasy is inspired by an elegant French boudoir adorned with velvet-tufted walls, Victorian furniture and Louis XIV-style chaise lounges. For adult guests only, the lounge is part of Europa, a [...]

Viator Cruise lovers who hate being stuck with the expensive shore excursions offered by their cruise line can now find better value alternatives, thanks to a website launching today: Viator Shore Excursions. The site, run by activity booking [...]

An issue with the propulsion motor on Caribbean Princess caused the ship to cut its most recent sailing short, and according to a statement from Princess Cruises, it has also prompted the line to cancel two subsequent sailings scheduled for [...]

An issue with the propulsion motor on Caribbean Princess will likely impact the remainder of the ship’s current itinerary, according to a statement from Princess Cruises.   As a result of reduced speeds caused by the problem, the [...]

Lynne Sladky / AP Stein Kruse, President and CEO of Holland America Line, speaks during a roundtable discussion on the state of the cruise ship industry Tuesday at the Cruise Shipping Miami conference in Miami Beach, Fla. In their first major [...]

Michel Verdure / © Michel Verdure Royal Caribbean’s all-you-can drink packages, which start at $29 per day, will no longer be offered aboard Independence of the Seas during the ship’s new seasonal deployment in Florida. Toast [...]

Courtesy Disney Cruise Line Disney Fantasy launches in March 2012 and will be the second of Disney’s second-generation ships and the fourth in the fleet. Each year, cruise lines compete to come out with the most “I-can’t-believe-that’s-on-a-cruise-ship” [...]

The grand world voyage, a regular fixture on the cruise calendar for many decades, is getting a makeover. Typically it’s been a three-month voyage that starts in January and departs from a British or U.S. port to keep North Americans and [...]

Ray Tamarra / Getty Images Contributor Kate Gosselin will host a cruise in August aboard Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas. Can’t get your fill of celebrity culture from your TV or Twitter feed? Not a problem. Sign up for the just-announced [...]

Ms. MARIA PAPA (Survived Cruise Ship Disaster): Good morning. CURRY: So I want to get your response to the CEO of the company in his discussion in calling the — about the cruise saying he’s grateful for the skill and behavior [...]