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Today on Cruise News: Margaritaville at Sea's 2027 Annual Cruise Membership is on sale for $2,499 for two adults through November 3, covering unlimited eligible sailings of up to seven nights, but members can book only within 30 days of departure and hold one active reservation at a time. Viking named seven new river ships in an Amsterdam ceremony on October 15, honoring travel advisors and industry executives as godparents, with the ships assigned to the Rhine, Main, Danube, Seine and Nile. Costa Cruises outlined six themed itineraries for winter 2026-27 across the Mediterranean, Canary Islands and Caribbean, pairing port calls with its Sea Destinations. Read today's stories and sign up for email alerts at CruiseNews.io.

Today on Cruise News: MSC Virtuosa is finishing its summer season from Southampton ahead of a 25-night repositioning cruise to Santos departing November 7, 2026, where it will begin a Brazilian winter programme before spending the 2027 and 2028 European summers in the Western Mediterranean. Star Princess has completed its first year with Princess Cruises after carrying approximately 90,000 guests in its inaugural Alaska season, and is returning to Port Everglades for a second Florida winter with four- to seven-night voyages to the Caribbean and the Bahamas. Tallinn-based LTH Baas completed interior refurbishment projects covering 111 staterooms on five Royal Caribbean Group ships, including Ovation of the Seas, Star of the Seas and Celebrity Solstice, during the first six months of the year. Read today's stories and sign up for email alerts at CruiseNews.io.

Today on Cruise News: Royal Caribbean will base Freedom of the Seas in Southampton from May to October 2028, a second consecutive summer from the UK port, with sailings to the Norwegian fjords and calls at Copenhagen, Bilbao, Le Havre and Lisbon. Holland America Line has unveiled Bar 1873, a two-level atrium lounge built around a three-meter illuminated tulip sculpture, which will debut aboard Oosterdam during its Holland America Evolution refurbishment. In Vancouver, two new shore-power stations at Canada Place will bring the terminal's total to five, after a record 2026 season of approximately 1.4 million passenger visits and 358 cruise calls. Read today's stories and sign up for email alerts at CruiseNews.io.

Today on Cruise News: a 44-year-old passenger from Royal Caribbean's Odyssey of the Seas was rescued alive in the Ionian Sea off Greece on October 10 after about 20 hours in the water, found when the containership MSC Rossella III spotted the flashing light on her lifebuoy; the search led the ship to cancel its Naples call. Carnival will remove Carnival Adventure and Carnival Luminosa from Australia in March 2028, keeping Carnival Splendor year-round in Sydney and Carnival Encounter in Brisbane, as a longer-term coastal-trading framework is still being developed. And Royal Caribbean's Rhapsody of the Seas opened Dominica's 2026-27 cruise season at Roseau, with Discover Dominica expecting nearly 270 ship calls and more than 475,000 visitors, including the debut of MSC World Europa. Read today's stories and sign up for email alerts at CruiseNews.io.

Today on Cruise News: Costa Cruises is offering €100 in refundable onboard credit after Costa Favolosa cancelled calls at Leknes and Bodo on its Norwegian voyage because of forecast strong winds and rough seas, but only for two guests per stateroom, with a maximum of €200 per cabin; the revised route turns Trondheim into a 26-hour overnight stay and adds Kristiansand. Vancouver closed a record 2026 cruise season with about 1.4 million passenger visits and 358 ship calls at Canada Place, where a shore-power expansion due by 2027 will add two connection stations and is expected to enable about 90 additional ship connections a year. And TUI Cruises and Germany's Havariekommando held a mass-casualty drill aboard Mein Schiff 3 in Bremerhaven with passengers aboard, including psychosocial emergency care on the ship and at the passenger terminal. Read today's stories and sign up for email alerts at CruiseNews.io.

Today on Cruise News: A swarm of bees was removed from the Deck 15 pool area of Royal Caribbean International's Utopia of the Seas in Port Canaveral on October 12, as passengers boarded a four-night Bahamas sailing, with no guests reported stung and no departure delay reported. Oriental Land Co. has named its first Japan-based Disney cruise ship Disney Imagination, a Wish-class vessel for about 4,000 passengers that will launch Disney Cruise Line Japan with service from Tokyo scheduled for spring 2029. And Princess Cruises is discussing plans to seasonally homeport a ship in Melbourne in 2028-29, after Crown Princess opened Victoria's 2026-27 cruise season at Station Pier. Read today's stories and sign up for email alerts at CruiseNews.io.

Today on Cruise News: A passenger who went overboard from Royal Caribbean's Odyssey of the Seas in the Ionian Sea was recovered alive after approximately 20 hours in the water, after the containership MSC Rossella III spotted a flashing light on her lifebuoy; the search led to the cancellation of the ship's final call at Naples. Disney Cruise Line is testing cruise-only Key to the World wristbands in place of shipboard cards on Disney Treasure's October 10 departure from Port Canaveral, with the bands due back when the ship returns to Florida on October 17. And Princess Cruises will resume Amazon River cruising for the first time since 2014 in its 2028-2029 Americas season, which includes more than 250 departures and a new 64-day Circle South America voyage aboard Coral Princess. Read today's stories and sign up for email alerts at CruiseNews.io.

Today on Cruise News: Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings is applying its pricing reset to selected 2027 departures and sailings open for 2028, offering more competitive prices earlier in the booking cycle after a second quarter in which net yield declined 2.6%. Meyer Werft has floated the first of three gigablocks for Disney Believe, the fourth and final Wish-class ship, whose maiden voyage is scheduled for December 18, 2027, from Port Everglades. And AIDA is adding interior, oceanview and balcony cabins to AIDAperla and AIDAprima in their Evolution refits, along with new dining venues, bars and family spaces, though it has not said how many cabins will be added. Read today's stories and sign up for email alerts at CruiseNews.io.

Today on Cruise News: Royal Caribbean Group and MSC Cruises are set to receive preferential berth access at Naha Port for up to 250 days a year over a period of up to 30 years, tied to a new turnaround terminal at Shinminato Wharf targeted to open in March 2028. Port Samana at Arroyo Barril on the Dominican Republic's Samana Peninsula is scheduled to begin operations on November 24, 2026, with MSC Opera as its first caller. And Tauranga expects more than 200,000 cruise passengers and crew during a 79-call season opened by Celebrity Edge, as Mount Maunganui businesses look to the arrivals to help them recover after the Mauao landslide. Read today's stories and sign up for email alerts at CruiseNews.io.

Today on Cruise News: Royal Caribbean has opened bookings for its 2028 Alaska season, with Voyager, Ovation, Anthem and Serenade of the Seas sailing seven-night cruises from Seattle, Seward and Vancouver, and Seward passengers using a new terminal developed by Royal Caribbean Group and the Alaska Railroad. Four Seasons I's seven-night fares start at $31,000, yet breakfast is the only included meal, while Orient Express's 110-passenger Corinthian offers three-day voyages from $19,500 on an all-inclusive basis. And Travelmarvel has opened U.S. bookings for its 2028/29 Egypt, Jordan and Morocco programme, with Nile cruises aboard the 124-passenger Travelmarvel Sirius and an optional two-night hotel extension in Alexandria. Read today's stories and sign up for email alerts at CruiseNews.io.

Today on Cruise News: PortMiami has announced a 16-ship arrival lineup spanning 12 cruise brands for the 2026-27 season, opening with Ponant Explorations' L'Austral and Explora III in October 2026 and closing with Royal Caribbean's Hero of the Seas in August 2027; the port handled 8,564,151 cruise passengers in fiscal 2025. China's Ministry of Transport has named Xiamen, Guangzhou and Shenzhen as the next trial cities for cruises to nowhere, though official guidance does not set out a comprehensive nationwide passenger and immigration framework for these voyages. And Antarctica21's Magellan Discoverer, which pairs diesel engines with battery storage, is nearing completion in Chile ahead of its first revenue passengers on December 15, but the company has not published independently verified fuel-consumption data or comparative emissions figures. Read today's stories and sign up for email alerts at CruiseNews.io.

Today on Cruise News: Margaritaville at Sea has opened bookings for its 2028 season, including the line's first visits to Limón, Costa Rica, and Colón, Panama, on eight-night cruises from Tampa aboard Islander, while Beachcomber, being converted from Costa Fortuna, is scheduled to start Galveston service in October 2027. Holland America Line has opened bookings for its May–October 2028 Canada and New England season aboard Volendam and Zuiderdam, bringing Zuiderdam to the region for the first time following its Evolution refurbishment. Former Strictly Come Dancing professionals Michelle Tsiakkas and Vincent Simone will give the first public performance of their new show Eras on Saga Cruises' 14-night Best of the Canaries voyage aboard Spirit of Discovery, departing Portsmouth on December 6, 2026. Read today's stories and sign up for email alerts at CruiseNews.io.

Today on Cruise News: Norwegian Cruise Line has brought Norwegian Aura's debut forward by 19 days to May 2, adding a 10-day opening sailing from Trieste to Piraeus and a nine-day return voyage, while the advertised May 21, 2027 maiden voyage still goes ahead. Carnival Freedom resumed service from Barcelona after a 35-day dry dock in Marseille that gave it a new, lower whale tail funnel and an expanded casino, and Carnival has opened the ship's 2028-29 season from Norfolk, Virginia. Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has announced 39 sailings for January through July 2028, including a 19-night voyage from Liverpool aboard Borealis that marks its first return to Canada since 2024. Read today's stories and sign up for email alerts at CruiseNews.io.

Today on Cruise News: Disney Cruise Line opens general bookings for Disney Believe on October 19, ahead of the 4,000-passenger ship's maiden voyage from Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale on December 18, 2027, with what Disney describes as the world's first stage adaptation of "Encanto" and a new "Frozen" dining experience among its new venues. Carnival Radiance is back in service in Long Beach after a 15-day dry dock in Victoria, British Columbia, with updated guest areas and Carnival's new "From Sea to Shining Sea" bow crest. And MSC Cruises has unveiled six stage productions for MSC World Asia, four of them new to the line, ahead of the ship's Mediterranean debut on December 4, 2026. Read today's stories and sign up for email alerts at CruiseNews.io.

Today on Cruise News: Royal Caribbean warned guests aboard Oasis of the Seas that toilets in affected areas would be unavailable during two two-hour maintenance periods on September 30 while the ship was docked in Nassau, after an identical notice during a July 29 call there. Carnival is already half booked for 2027, with occupancy and pricing at record levels for this stage of the booking cycle, and its Celebration Key destination on Grand Bahama received almost 2.5 million guests in its first year. Royal Caribbean Group, which removed 977 metric tons of sargassum from Mahahual's reef lagoon in five months, is adding a third collection boat with local nonprofit Menos Plastico es Fantastico as the cleanup moves into a second phase running through November. Read today's stories and sign up for email alerts at CruiseNews.io.