Cruise planning guides, packing lists, booking tips, and practical advice for cruisers.
Seabourn Encore does not have a waterslide, a conga line or a Bingo-with-a-DJ situation. If that’s your idea of a good time, you can stop reading and go and enjoy yourself on something with a funnel the size of a…
Carnival Elation’s Saturday, January 9, 2027 sailing is a five-night Jacksonville run that tucks two Bahamas beach days between two sea days, like a sandy sandwich. What makes this departure its own animal is the port order. It hits Half…
Most ships pick a region for autumn and stick with it, like a sensible person choosing a sofa. Marella Discovery doesn’t. In October she potters around the Aegean from Cyprus. In early November she hops across the Med, then makes…
Liberty of the Seas leaves Galveston at 4:00 PM on Thursday 14 January 2027 for four nights, fresh from a 2026 “amplification” (cruise-speak for a glow-up) that added a Starbucks, a hibachi restaurant and a reworked pool deck to a…
Singapore does not do autumn. The calendar says October, the sky says sauna, and nobody is carrying a pumpkin spice anything. But this is the season that matters for Navigator of the Seas, because it’s her first run homeporting in…
Quick Reference: Allure of the Seas, Autumn in the Caribbean and Bahamas Detail What to know Ship Allure of the Seas (Oasis Class, built 2010, refurbished 2025; 225,282 gross tons, 18 decks) Season Autumn, with sailings from October 25, 2026…
Autumn is when Explorer of the Seas swaps the Mediterranean for the Caribbean. She spends the next few weeks trundling across the Atlantic like a snowbird with a rolling suitcase and zero regrets. By mid-November she’s sitting at Port Canaveral…
Liberty of the Seas leaves Galveston on Saturday 9 January 2027 for five nights and a Thursday 14 January return, fresh out of her 2026 “Royal Amplified” refit. That makes her a 2007 ship with a reimagined pool deck and…
Silver Nova in the Mediterranean This Autumn: Is It Right for You? Here is a fun scheduling fact. The first of Silver Nova’s autumn Mediterranean sailings leaves Piraeus tomorrow, 19 October, and I am writing this the day before. If…
Quantum of the Seas leaves Brisbane on Saturday 16 January 2027 for six nights up the Queensland coast. One of its “ports” is a one-hour drive-by of a weather station on a coral speck. It also sails in the thick…
