2 Cruise Lines Implement New Age Restrictions on Young Travelers

02/27/2025

Two of the world’s biggest cruise lines are cracking down on young travelers cruising on their own. Royal Caribbean Cruise Line and Carnival Cruise Line quietly changed their minimum age policies in February 2025.

They are still two of the most family- and kid-friendly cruise lines out there, with cruise guests of all ages welcomed.

The change is for young adults traveling...

MSC Cruises’ Private Island Cultivating Conservation Success with Super Coral Program

12/30/2024

MSC Cruises and the MSC Foundation are sharing some good news for the world’s seas coming from the Super Coral Program at the cruise line’s private island in The Bahamas, Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve.

The Super Coral Program, working with off-site university partners since 2020, is dedicated to reversing the shocking worldwide decline in coral populations.

New research supported by the...

Get In On This Summer's Hottest Cocktail Trend With These Next-Gen Sips from MSC

08/08/2024

Gin is in! Cocktail culture is back, and one of the original ingredients of cocktails is having a renaissance, too. MSC Cruises has ‘tapped’ into the of-the-moment trend that’s seen a boom in types of gin and new gin cocktails.

The cruise line is introducing new drinks fleet-wide to join in its lineup of cool summer sips.

For many, fun and sophisticated...

First LEGO Parade at Sea, Only Over-Water Swing and More on MSC World America

07/10/2024 in Caribbean

Building family fun on a cruise vacation couldn’t be easier. When the new MSC World America launches in April, 2025, it will have an over 10,0000 square foot kids’ area, complete with an enhanced partnership with LEGO that will offer first-at-sea experiences. Plus the only over-water swing ride – the ‘Cliffhanger’ - towering over 160 feet above the ocean -...

Top 10 New Ships to Watch for in 2023

01/26/2023

The New Year comes with the anticipation of another exciting 12 months of new ship inaugurals, which will introduce design, technology, cruise lifestyle and environmental innovations that will shape the future of how we cruise.

In 2023, $11 billion worth of new ocean ships alone will debut around the world, adding close to 40,000 new berths to the global cruise fleet.

Here's...

Drink a Cocktail Made by the World’s 1st Human-like Robot Bartender at Sea

02/25/2021

He mixes drinks, but doesn’t stop there. ‘Rob’ the robot bartender also speaks 8 languages, tells jokes and even dances too!

When we can cruise again, you won’t want to miss the world’s first humanoid – and interactive – shipboard robot bartender, who will make you the perfect cocktail to toast your return to cruising and travel.

When MSC Cruises launches its...

This Cruise Line Kicked Guests off a Cruise. Here's Why it's Good News for You and Cruise Travel

08/26/2020

Guests left behind when a ship sails away is usually an unfortunate situation no cruise line likes to talk about. But when it happened last week in Naples, cheers rang out around the world.

The guests weren’t late, which is usually how guests miss ships.

Earlier this summer, Europe-based MSC Cruises had announced its new COVID-era health and safety protocols, developed...

3 New Cruise Line Private Islands

03/22/2019 in Caribbean

It used to be that private islands were the playgrounds of the ridiculously rich and fabulously famous. Then cruise lines got into the game. Now, cruise lines are competing with each other to build exclusive tropical enclaves in the Caribbean for their guests to experience not just a day on the beach, but create travel memories they can't get anywhere...

7 Reasons to Go To Sea on the New MSC Seaside

01/12/2018 in Caribbean

MSC Cruises' new flagship launched at the end of 2017 and it's really making waves. Designers of the MSC Seaside had a goal: to bring guests on a big ship closer to the sea. They threw out the playbook and started fresh, creating the Seaside, a new prototype for a class of ships inspired by an elegant Miami beach condo.

Here...

MSC's 'Wonder' at Sea

06/07/2017 in Europe

There's a new Wonder at Sea. The MSC Meraviglia. If your language skills are rusty, that's Italian for 'wonder', and this European cruise line's new flagship is a wondrous destination at sea for five thousand guests. The MSC Meraviglia is the biggest ship to be built by a European ship owner, and also the biggest cruise ship to come into...

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