Cruises and Ships

DrFumblefinger shares the story behind one of North America's wettest boat adventures, a ride on the Maid of the Mist in Niagara Falls.

Cruise lines and Amsterdam's budget hotels are pushing back, including complaints that budget travelers are being pushed out.

Royal Caribbean adds to its Oasis-class line-up with delivery in late 2023 from the same shipyard that has built its sister ships.

Viking takes the helm of its sixth ocean cruiser, and Disney puts in orders that will nearly double its fleet.

A Johns Hopkins professor says cruise ships need to do better; some of the lines say they already are.

U by Uniworld's The B will move east to join The A on Central European rivers.

Hamburg's International Maritime Museum fills a historic warehouse with nearly everything maritime you could think of.

In an age of high-speed travel, there's still room for the ferries, and their numbers are growing.

Starting this month, room service will be a la carte except for Continental breakfast.

Hamburg's harbor world of huge ships, containers and cranes also has space for a wide variety of smaller craft and a lot of history.

A restored monastery that is also still a museum was one of Marilyn Jones's stops on a cruise between Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Amsterdam's new tax on overnight cruise passengers results in the port losing some port calls.