- Home
- Photo Tours
- Mainstream
- Carnival Breeze – Exotic Eastern Caribbean
- Carnival Freedom – Western Caribbean
- Carnival Miracle – Mexican Riviera
- Carnival Paradise – Cuba
- Carnival Pride – Bahamas from Baltimore
- Coral Princess – Ultimate Alaska with Cruise Experts Travel
- Cuba Cruise Louis Cristal – Cuba
- MSC Divina – Eastern Caribbean
- Norwegian Breakaway – Christening
- Norwegian Epic – Eastern Caribbean
- Norwegian Pearl – Alaska RT Seattle
- Quantum of the Seas – Preview Cruise
- Zuiderdam – Alaska Inside Passage
- Expedition
- Hurtigruten FRAM – Antarctica
- Hurtigruten Midnatsol – North Cape
- Passing Cloud – BC’s Gulf Islands
- Passing Cloud – Haida Gwaii
- S.S. Legacy – Columbia & Snake Rivers
- Safari Endeavour – Alaska’s Glacier Country
- Safari Voyager – Mexico’s Sea of Cortes
- Schooner Zodiac – Brew Cruise 2013
- Schooner Zodiac – Wine Cruise
- Silver Discoverer – Australia to Indonesia
- Silver Explorer – Arctic Svalbard
- Silver Explorer – British Isles
- Silver Galapagos – Galapagos Islands
- Wind Spirit – Stockholm to Oslo
- Wind Star – Rome to Nice
- Luxury
- EUROPA 2 – Greece & Turkey
- Queen Mary 2 – Eastbound Transatlantic 2012
- Queen Mary 2 – Westbound Transatlantic 2015
- Seabourn Sojourn – Ultimate Alaskan Sojourn
- Silver Shadow – Exotic Alaska
- Silver Shadow – Southeast Asia & Myanmar
- Silver Spirit – Athens to Barcelona
- Silver Spirit- Eastbound Transatlantic
- Silver Wind – Mediterranean
- Silver Wind – Middle East
- Silver Wind – South Africa
- River
- AmaLotus – Cambodia & Vietnam
- AmaLyra- Danube Christmas Markets
- American Empress on the Columbia
- Avalon Expression – Amsterdam to Nuremberg
- Emerald Waterways Emerald Star – Danube Delights
- G Adventures – India’s Ganges
- S.S. Maria Theresa – Christening
- Tauck ms Inspire – Maiden Voyage
- Tauck Swiss Jewel – Blue Danube
- Viking Baldur – Danube Christmas
- Viking Baldur – Rhine Christmas
- Viking Forseti – Chateaux, Rivers & Wine
- Viking Freya – Danube Christmas
- Viking Longships Christening 2012
- Viking Longships Christening 2013
- Viking Longships Christening 2014
- Viking Longships Christening 2015
- Viking Vidar – Grand European Tour
- Hotels
- Upcoming & Past Cruises
- About FTDC
World Renaissance is seen in this official Royal Olympic Cruises postcard. Aaron Saunders Collection
For many, their first cruise is their most memorable. For me, my second cruise was my most memorable, largely because of the ports, the quaintness of the ship, and the extraordinarily adverse weather conditions […]
Click here to continue reading! →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 […]
Click here to continue reading! →One hundred years ago, Robert Falcon Scott set sail bound for Antarctica. His mission: to claim the South Pole for England. Unfortunately for Scott, he didn’t know two things at the time: first, that Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had also decided to take a run at the pole and was hot on Scott’s […]
Click here to continue reading! →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 […]
Click here to continue reading! →Seabourn Odyssey towers over the historic city of Venice. Photo courtesy of the Yachts of Seabourn.
If you’ve always wanted to try the decidedly sophisticated, ultraluxurious ships of the Yachts of Seabourn, but were put off by the price, you may get your chance this November.
Departing […]
Click here to continue reading! →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 […]
Click here to continue reading! →Heavy swells as seen from the deck of Crown Princess on our way to Iceland from Norway. Photo © Aaron Saunders
One of the most commonly-asked cruising questions, aside from “What night’s lobster night?!” is “how rough are the seas?”
For the most part, it’s impossible to answer […]
Click here to continue reading! →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 […]
Click here to continue reading! →Sailing under the Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver aboard the Rotterdam’s one-night trip to Seattle. Photo © 2010 Aaron Saunders Chances are, you’ve heard of one-night cruises before, but haven’t been on one yourself. If you live near (or even reasonably close to) one of the ports of […]
Click here to continue reading! →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 […]
Click here to continue reading! →Contact Us
Sailing Schedule
Twitter
Article Search
Article Categories
Archives
- January 2019
- December 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009