With more and more people clamouring to climb onboard, It’s hard to keep up with all the breaking news and developments. We’ll do our best to keep you informed.

Eyeconic on P&O Cruises

Eye Eye Captain! P&O Cruises introduces unique keepsake experience

P&O Cruises has launched a unique method of photography that captures the beauty of eyes through high-definition iris imagery. Eyeconic captures highly sophisticated pictures of the iris, the coloured part of the eye, to create a detailed and unique piece of artwork. To create the image, a light is continuously shone into the eye while

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Queen Anne in Iceland

Why my bucket list cruise on Cunard’s new Queen Anne left me underwhelmed

The top two items on my bucket list were to cruise with Cunard and to visit Reykjavik. So when the new Queen Anne was launched this year offering a 14-day itinerary taking in Iceland and the British Isles, it was an opportunity too good to miss, writes SeaView editor David Simpson. Over a 40-year career

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Regatta

Oceania Cruises cuts price of 50 global voyages by up to 40% in annual summer sale

Oceania Cruises has cut up to 40 per cent off the price of 50 global voyages in its annual summer sale, which runs until 26 August. The promotion offers guests a great value opportunity to explore some of the most idyllic parts of the world aboard the line’s eight mall ships. All sailings, departing between

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crystal new ship

Crystal orders two new ‘groundbreaking’ cruise ships from Fincantieri

Crystal has placed an order with the Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri for two ships that will, according to the cruise line, “redefine high-end travel on the seas”. The expected delivery of the first ship is Spring 2028. “This order is another milestone in the 40 years of productive collaboration between Fincantieri and my family that started

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Celestyal Discovery with new livery

Celestyal unveils 50% summer saving bonanza

Celestyal has launched a summer saving campaign, with up to 50% off new bookings made by 31 August. The savings applies across their 2024, 2025 and recently launched 2026 and early 2027 programmes. For its new Arabian Gulf voyages, departing from November to March each season, Celestyal is offering early booking savings of up to

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Lindt Chocolate Tulip on Holland America

A Holland America sweetener for guests as it joins forces with Lindt

Chocoholics take note … Holland America Line is teaming up with Lindt to further sweeten its cruising experience. Both brands are steeped in rich European heritage, and Lindt vice president Melissa Mendoza said: “The partnership between Holland America Line and Lindt presents a remarkable chance for the Lindt LINDOR brand to connect with travellers passionate

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Seven Seas Prestige rendering

New ship Seven Seas Prestige set to arrive in 2026 with a new kind of class

Regent Seven Seas Cruises has unveiled the name of its next new ship, Seven Seas Prestige, along with stunning new exterior images, providing a glimpse into a brand new class of vessel. Seven Seas Prestige, which will be delivered in 2026, is Regent’s first new ship class in 10 years following the successful Explorer-class vessels

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Utopia of the Seas

Royal Caribbean takes delivery of Utopia of the Seas

The Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in France handed Royal Caribbean the keys of its lastest gargantuan ship, Utopia of the Seas, with just five weekends to go before its 19 July debut in Port Canaveral, Florida. More than 1,600-plus crew members and shipyard workers came together to mark the moment in the ship’s signature AquaTheater,

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Ambition docked at the Port of Tyne

Ambassador launches ‘Buy One Get One Half Price’ June campaign

Ambassador Cruise Line has launched a June campaign featuring deals on both its 2024/25 and 2025/26 itineraries. Guests can take advantage of a range of offers when booking by 10 July for its 2024/25 season and by 31 July for its 2025/26 season. These include Buy One Get One Half Price savings on a second

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Silver Dawn

149 days in the lap of luxury … on Silver Dawn’s out-of-this-world cruise in 2027

Silversea will be undertaking its richest voyage ever for its World Cruise 2027 … The Three Oceans. Silver Dawn, one of the smallest world-cruising ships, will depart Los Angeles on 8 January and arrive in Copenhagen 149 days later (7 June) having called in 80 destinations – more than any voyage in the brand’s history

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