Costa Cruises’ Costa Luminosa has started her Caribbean season after making her maiden call in Miami, US, on 7 December. The 92,000-ton vessel, which is the largest ship Costa has ever deployed from Miami, will offer ten-day roundtrip to six Caribbean ports until March 2014.

T&T is among four countries in the region now closer to agreeing a deal that will boast cruise ship travel to their destinations. Grenada, St Vincent and the Grenadines and St Lucia are the Caricom member states partnering with this country.

Royal Caribbean International will offer yet another Broadway production on its fleet. “Mamma Mia!” will play on the 4,180-passenger Quantum of the Seas when it debuts next November.

Supermodel Valeria Mazza welcomed MSC Cruises’ MSC Poesia as she made her inaugural call to the port of Buenos Aires on 24 November.

For decades, American-based cruise ships have gone out of their way to sail around the elephant in the Caribbean Sea — Cuba. But now a new cruise company is about to debut weekly voyages that explore that fascinating and mysterious island that is, for the most part, off-limits to U.S. citizens.

The newest Royal Caribbean International cruise ship, the 167,000-ton Anthem of the Seas, will be based in Southampton, U.K. and launch summer Mediterranean cruises beginning in 2015, the company announced Thursday.