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Tomorrow, Silver Muse leaves Malta on a seven-night run to Lisbon. By the time the ship swings east for the Asia stretch, it will have gone down West Africa, round the Cape, across the Indian Ocean and into Singapore. It’s…
Majestic Princess spends this autumn doing the cruising equivalent of changing outfits three times before lunch. She starts with New England leaf-peeping, ducks south for a Caribbean run, then heads for the bottom of South America. Our schedule has 12…
Here’s the thing about Carnival Radiance: she looks like a short-hop party boat, and she is. But she’s also a ship with a past, a surprisingly good CDC score and a fall schedule with one big curveball. Twenty-eight of her…
Norwegian Breakaway is having an identity crisis this autumn, and I respect it. Between now and late January she’s Boston-based for three more departures (Oct 18 to Nov 1), which timetables show as Halifax-and-Bermuda sailings. Then she does a 14-night…
Norwegian Joy leaves Miami on Thursday, Dec 31, 2026 for four nights, so the year’s last toast and the new year’s first headache will happen on the same ship. If the 4:00 PM departure holds (that time comes from third-party…
Quick Reference: Enchanted Princess, Autumn 2026 Detail What to know Ship Enchanted Princess, Princess Royal class, built 2021, refurbished 2023, 145,281 GT, 3,668 passengers, 1,346 crew Season Autumn 2026 Region Caribbean / Bahamas (the Bahamas part is a Half Moon…
Let’s get one thing straight: nobody boards a Disney ship in October by accident. If you’re looking at the Disney Wish this autumn, you either have children who’ve been practising “Let It Go” since August, or you’re an adult who…
Picture this: you board a ship in coat, hat and gloves, wave goodbye to a Norfolk January, and (if the itinerary holds) by Tuesday you’re in swimwear on a Bahamian beach. That’s Carnival Sunshine’s 8-night Eastern Caribbean roundtrip, which leaves…
Let’s get the awkward bit out of the way. If you’re picturing Silver Ray gliding through turquoise water this October, I have news. The ship spends the first half of its autumn in the Mediterranean. It doesn’t reach Florida until…
Oasis of the Seas is not a ship you “discover.” She’s a 225,282-ton floating small city with a park in the middle, and she has been annoying smaller ships since 2009. This autumn she splits her time between two worlds.…
