Cruises

The cruise that's so popular, it's selling out more than a year in advance

After a year of isolation and lockdowns, four months on a ship is looking pretty good to cruise super fans.

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Coral Expeditions visits Wineglass Bay in Tasmania.

Cruise ships banned? Not quite: Cruises you can definitely still do

International cruising remains in the doldrums but Australia's success in containing COVID-19 has already seen domestic small-ship cruises back in business.

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How cruising plans to launch its comeback

The enforced pause has provided time for an embattled cruise industry to rethink and regroup.

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Norwegian's Jewel: Cruise lines that operate in Singapore include Norwegian, Celebrity and Princess Cruises.

Cruises to nowhere may follow similar air travel trend

If boarding a flight to nowhere to live out the good old days of travel is not attractive, how about a round-trip cruise sailing to nowhere?

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Cruise lines plan to ban passengers from freely roaming port cities

Forget the tequila shots, straw markets and jewellery stores. If cruise lines are allowed to resume operations anytime soon, passengers won't be permitted to roam freely around port cities.

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Cruise ship denies family re-embarkation after they broke the 'social bubble'

Cruise line's stringent covid-19 guidelines were breached by a family on a shore excursion in Naples, which MSC says led to them denying those passengers re-entry to the liner.

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Dramatic rusty red cliffs, deep sandstone gorges, vast open vistas and some 12,000 kilometres of spectacular coastline ...

One of the world's most remote wildernesses is in our backyard

If your travel ideals have changed during isolation, an expedition cruise in the Kimberley might just the thing to ease you back into the big wide world.