Cruise West will chart a course that circumnavigates the earth when the 120-passenger Spirit of Oceanus makes her 2011/12  “Voyages of the Great Explorers” World Cruise. Commencing February 22, 2011 in Singapore, the ship will visit six continents, 254 ports of call in 61 countries while crossing 14 seas and oceans before arriving in the [...]

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While Cruise West is best known as a small ship Alaska cruise line, the company has announced six in-depth 2010 Mediterranean voyages with Smithsonian lecturers.   The 13- to 16-night cruises are part of the 120-passenger Spirit of Oceanus‘ 334 world cruise. Those who book and pay in full by Oct. 15, 2009 will get a 21% [...]

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The Voyages of the Great Explorers – the Cruise West yearlong world cruise that launches in March 2010 — will feature lectures and presentations by noted travel experts from the Smithsonian Journeys on select segments of the epic world voyage.
Cruise West and Smithsonian Journeys will develop the lecture series for 10 of the 24 [...]

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If you take a conventional mega-ship through the Panama Canal, you will experience this engineering marvel first-hand but you will see few — if any — brilliantly-hued birds, chattering monkeys, lush Central American jungle or indigenous Indian tribes.
For that you need to take a small cruise ship, such as Cruise West’s 100-passenger Pacific Explorer. [...]

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*** Few regions offer as much unspoiled beauty, rustic coastline and quaint ports as the Pacific Northwest.  Cruise West offers the best way to visit this region with fleet of small, casual cruise ships. 
The 102-passenger Spirit of Endeavourwill sail on eight-day “Pacific Northwest Coastal Escape” cruises sailing round-trip from Seattle visiting Nanaimo, “The Harbour City”; Desolation [...]

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** Carnival Fantasy Gets An Overhaull
While Carnival Fantasy may be one of Carnival’s oldest ships, she’s still popular on four- and five-day Caribbean itineraries from New Orleans.  This fall she will undergo an extensive upgrade during dry dock with a new aqua park featuring a 300-foot-long water slide, an exclusive adults-only area, and a totally [...]

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Since I love open seating dining, spacious cabins, casual dress and small ships, Cruise West’s new South Pacific cruises make my mouth water.   The company’s flag ship, Spirit of Oceanus, will visit some of the most exotic isles in the South Pacific on 11- to 16-night voyages to unspoiled places like Tahiti, Fiji, the Solomon [...]

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