Planning a family vacation can be tricky, but a cruise offers the family-friendly options that ensure everyone in your group, from toddlers to grandparents, is provided with all the necessary ...

A trip aboard a cruise ship provides a unique vacation truly unlike anything else. When enjoying activities like shopping, dining at fancy restaurants, testing your luck at the blackjack table or ...

I left for an international beach trip on a Monday – and made it back home in time for the weekend. My cruise on Royal Caribbean International’s Utopia of the Seas last summer took me to the Bahamas ...

You don't have to be a loyal cruise guest to enjoy priority perks on Carnival Cruise Line. Even first-time cruisers can achieve VIP status with Carnival's Faster to the Fun. What is Faster to the Fun?

I’m not afraid to admit when I’m wrong, and I have made some incorrect assumptions about Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) over the years. In my 30-plus cruises on 13 cruise lines, I’d never sailed with NCL ...

How We Spent Our Family Vacation is a new column that unpacks a single trip down to the cost, from the point of view of families who love to travel. For special education teacher Courtney Kamna, ...

My husband and I took our first cruise 16 years ago for our honeymoon. We went on more cruises after becoming parents, but had never brought our kids with us. Taking my 10 and 13-year-olds on a cruise ...

Cruises are no longer a vacation but a lifestyle. From the size of the ships to the number of people, from onboard Picassos to Disney princesses, it’s less about whether you take a cruise than which ...

Nick Offerman stars in a new Carnival Cruise Line ad campaign called “Find Your Fun Again.” The actor discussed enjoying the cruise ship's water park, ropes course, and hibachi dinner while filming.

It was so sunny and summerlike in early October that when a mid-month Nor’easter was predicted, I stayed in denial for a few days. Surely, nothing could change the picture I had in my mind of our ...

Short cruises, typically lasting less than a week, are growing in popularity for quick getaways. Cruise lines are now dedicating some of their newest and largest ships to these shorter itineraries.