Cruise Travel

So long fuel surcharges, hello zip-lining

Dec. 18: TODAY’s Meredith Vieira talks to travel journalist Valarie D’Elia about some great deals you can get on cruise vacations for the holidays. (Today Show)Hitting the high seas in 2009? Cruise columnist Anita Dunham-Potter forecasts an end to fuel surcharges and a beginning to fun onboard adventures.


Put cruise vacations on layway for big savings
If you’ve dreamt of going on an expedition cruise to exotic locales like but can’t unearth such a large chunk of change, new layaway cruising offers interest-free payments.

Unprecedented cruise deals
Global economic woes make for some amazing offers — don’t miss the boat.

Sail online for thrills without danger

A Virtual Regatta player poses in front of a computer in Paris December 3, 2008. Some 170,000 people are playing the virtual version of the Vendee Globe, a solo, non-stop sailing race around the world that skirts the southern continents and which some call the Mount Everest of the sea. Always wanted to sail around the globe but never had the nerve? Just sign up online and now you can compete in one of France's most beloved yachting events without ever having to leave your desk.


An expensive surprise: Life at sea takes a visa
Cruising couple dinged $420, all for a few hours in Brazil.

Pirates open fire on U.S. cruise ship

The M/S Nautica is seen at port in Sultan Qaboos, near Muscat, Oman, on Dec. 9, 2007. Pirates in the Gulf of Aden failed in a bid to capture the luxury vessel.Pirates near Somalia chased and shot at a U.S. cruise liner with more than 1,000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel, a maritime official said Tuesday.


Britain's Queen Elizabeth 2 arrives in Dubai

An Airbus A380 of the airline Emirates performs a fly past over the liner Queen Elizabeth 2 as she arrives in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 26, to begin a new life.Britain's most famous luxury cruise ship arrived in Dubai where it will turn into a floating hotel moored off an artificial palm-shaped island.


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