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APT wants expanded expedition product
#expeditioncruising Source: Travel Daily Cruise Update APT Caledonian Sky APT would quadruple its fleet of expedition vessels if the company’s owner and director Geoff McGeary had his way. “We’ve been buying up Renaissance ships, we own two at the moment, but we’d love to own all eight,” he said. Asked by TD Cruise Update if […]
From aboard SeaDream II in Asia
As published in Cruise Weekly today. From aboard SeaDream II Location: Yangon, Myanmar Vessel: SeaDream II, launched 1985, refitted 2002, 4260 tonnes, 105m, 112 passengers SeaDream Yacht Club (SYC) [www.seadream.com] knows exactly what they’re about. The company launched with two identical vessels just a couple of weeks before the calamitous 9/11 event and founder, Norwegian-born […]
Lindblad faces “suspicious” crowd
by Louse Goldsbury, editor of Cruise Weekly At last night’s brochure launch, past passengers confronted the new owners about changes to the old Orion. It wasn’t the caged animals at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo that caused a commotion at Lindblad Expeditions’ launch of its 2014 Explorations catalogue – it was loyal fans of the Australian ways […]
Mekong Cruising – For how much longer?
Floating traders in the delta (R Eime) by Roderick Eime Just as cruising along the famous Mekong River in Vietnam and Cambodia is hitting its straps, news is that dams being built further up the river in Laos in a joint project with Thailand seem likely to change the nature of the Mekong forever. Anyone […]
The North Pole Debate Still Rages
In September 1909, the American adventurer Frederick A Cook announced that he and two Eskimo companions had just returned from the North Pole after a journey of nearly two years. His bold claims were immediately met with derision by another US veteran of the ice, Robert E Peary. He claimed his own expedition was the […]
Cruise Weekly: Ready … on your Marquesas … go!
Location: Port of Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas, French Polynesia View Larger Map If there ever was a perfect outpost as sanctuary for troubled artists, refuge for wayward seamen and magnet for restless adventurers, then the far flung islands of the Marquesas would have to be it. Sure, you can catch one of the easy flights […]
Cruise Weekly Comment: Tahiti
From Expedition and Adventure Cruising How could you possibly dismiss Tahiti as an adventure cruise destination? Drenched in popular folklore thanks to the famous Mutiny on the Bounty, Tahiti has associated itself with almost everything romantic and adventurous. Heartthrobs Mel Gibson, Errol Flynn, Marlon Brando and Clark Gable all played the lovable rogue seaman, Fletcher […]
