Costa Cruises Wins Porthole Magazine Readers Award

Costa Cruises received top billing in Porthole Cruise Magazine’s 2012 Readers’ Choice Awards. The Italian cruise line was cited in two categories: Best Mediterranean Itineraries and Best Asia-Pacific Itineraries. Porthole Cruise Magazine’s Readers’ Choice Awards are determined by thousands of the publication’s readers who vote on their favorite cruise lines in a variety of categories. […]

Keel Laid for Norwegian Getaway

Norwegian Cruise Line board members, executives and officials from MEYER WERFT took part in the Keel Laying Ceremony of Norwegian Getaway at the ship yard in Papenburg, Germany on Tuesday, October 30, 2012 (photo right).  During the official ceremony, block number 34, the first of 73 blocks that will comprise the 146,600 gross ton vessel […]

Seward Outfitter Offering Tours to Exit Glacier

Until last year, winter travel along Exit Glacier Road in Seward was limited to snowmobiles, dog sleds and skiers. However, outdoor adventure outfitter Adventure Sixty North, LLC now offers snow coach tours to the Exit Glacier area onboard a heated, 12-person snowcat. Last year was the first for Adventure Sixty North’s snow coach tours into Kenai Fjords National […]

Celebrity Cruises Reveals San Francisco Pop-Up Restaurant

  Celebrity Cruises’ is bringing its award-winning, from-scratch culinary philosophy from sea to land this month in San Francisco, California, in the form of the first-ever cruise line pop-up restaurant. Elegant simplicity, modern pairings and abundance of earth and sea are the theme of the restaurant, which will pop up at Stable Café in the Mission […]