As Hurricane Earl bears down on the Eastern Caribbean, passengers aboard some Carnival, NCL, and Royal Caribbean ships are learning first-hand what happens when you’re in the path of a hurricane.

In most cases, a simple itinerary swap is in order.  Instead of visiting the Eastern Caribbean islands like St. Thomas, passengers […]

A Mexicana Airbus A320 lands at Vancouver  International Airport during better days. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Effective as of 12:01am this morning, Mexico’s first airline suspended all operations indefinitely following a spate of financial difficulties that have left the airline unable to operate. Mexicana Airlines had filed […]

Carnival Magic is seen in this 3D composite rendering. Illustration courtesy of Carnival Cruise Lines.

On Wednesday, Carnival took the wraps off of its newest vessel, Carnival Magic, with a special website dedicated solely to the ship.

Sister ship to the 2009-built Carnival Dream, Carnival’s latest […]

A few days ago, we wrote about Hapag-Lloyd Cruises‘ MS Hanseatic setting off from Greenland on an incredible twenty-eight day voyage through the fabled Northwest Passage to Nome, Alaska.

We’ve been following the ship’s progress via her webcam and thought we should share some of the more interesting photos with you here at From […]

A recent article published in the Vancouver Sun, amongst other newspapers, suggests that the waters off British Columbia are quickly becoming “the toilet bowl of North America”, and blatantly accuses cruise lines of dumping raw sewage into Canadian waters.

The driving force behind the recent article?  Noted anti-cruise ship group Friends of the […]