Fran Golden is an award-winning cruise journalist whose work regularly appears in Bloomberg, Travel + Leisure, Afar and other leading publications and websites. She is the author of numerous cruise ...

The cruise company says the housekeeping crew had no idea what they looked like when they chose to dress up as “upside down snow cones” for the event during a Pacific Explorer voyage from ...

In a now-viral video, a group of people in white dresses and hoods of the same colour were seen walking behind a person dressed as Santa Claus. A cruise line in Australia came under fire after ...

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A young woman who was left in tears after buying her prom dress has set up her own shop designed to make every school leaver feel like a princess. It is seven years since Lia Brehmer, a former ...

The cruise company says the housekeeping crew had no idea what they looked like when they chose to dress up as “upside down snow cones.” Terri Rawling via Storyful In the footage, a woman in ...

“They live and work on a cruise ship. They’re not going to Spotlight to buy a bunch of materials for fancy dress. They’ve got to make do with what they’ve got. And they were wearing their ...

Suri Cruise has always been there to support her mom, Katie Holmes—and the 18-year-old is keeping that tradition alive in the sweetest way. Suri, who could be Holmes’ twin, isn’t new to showing up for ...

“A lady sitting in front of me, her jaw dropped, she was like ‘what the hell’, everyone was like OMG they were calling it the ‘KKK cruise’.” It has been revealed the crew ...

Cruise lines are creating their own beaches, reaching out to families (especially on larger ships), and creating a boutique hotel vibe for luxury clients. By Ceylan Yeğinsu Responding to record ...

A cruise company has apologised after crew members dressed up in questionable outfits resembling the Ku Klux Klan for a fancy dress Christmas event.