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* Where to Find the Best of British Art When P&O’s Britannia enters service in March, it is going to be filled with everything British a...

* Things You’ll Want to Know Today we have a collection of shorter, but interesting items our readers probably won’t want to miss. + Four...

* The Place to Catch “Falling Stars” Costa offers passengers aboard their neoCollection ships special experiences of various types, but abo...

* Costa Concordia Arrives at Genoa Costa Concordia arrived at its final destination Sunday morning. Actually it arrived offshore Saturday n...

* Everybody Wants a Free Cruise - but Even More People Like to Talk about It Two of Norwegian Cruise Line's Twitter followers may have f...

* Senate Commerce Committee Hears More Testimony - Some Advice Wednesday afternoon, the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing on a bill ...

Photos of Costa Concordia and its convoy navigating to Genoa. The following video was taken from a drone as the convoy was departing ...

* Carnival Learns Texans Like Longer Ones Carnival has learned something about the Galveston market. They love variety - and longer cruises....

* Ready for Departure As of about noon today (local time on Giglio) Titan Micoperi declared the refloating of Costa Concordia complete. The ...

At about noon today (local time on Giglio), Titan Micoperi declared the refloat of Costa Concordia completed. Towing to Genoa for breaking o...

* Now You’ll Have Reservations about Norwegian’s Main Dining Room Reserved times are just one of the changes coming to the main dining rooms...

All weekend, Costa Concordia has been slowly rising out of the water. By dawn Monday morning it was apparent the ship had risen dramatically...

Overnight the Oil Response Team was called upon to investigate and clean a pool of hydrocarbons seen floating toward the aft end of the mids...

At 11am local time (5am Eastern time in the US) on Saturday morning, the operations center reports that Costa Concordia has risen so that De...