Experience Norway's Spectacular Coast With Hurtigruten's Black Friday Deals

As a frequent cruiser, I always book interior cabins. They're often the most economical option, though they aren't identical across cruise lines.

Happy (early) holidays! If you're already thinking about what to do with money you might receive this season, perhaps follow this family's lead. They spent their $75,000 inheritance on a bucket list trip to South Africa. They say it helped them grieve.

We sail into Norway’s fjords after a day spent crossing the North Sea, swapping the boundless blue ocean for winding narrow straits. Our ship, the Queen Anne, is sandwiched on both sides by towering walls of granite, soaring up to 6,500 feet tall and plunging over 4,000 feet beneath the water’s surface. Some sections of the fjord are so tight it feels as though our 3,000-person cruise ship will scrape the cliffside, the waterway just as wide as our wake. The grand scale of it all—the man-made giant versus the natural one—is at once awe-inspiring and unsettling.

This story is part of Condé Nast Traveler's spotlight on family cruise travel.

If you want to relax at a hotel, sip mai tais on a cruise, or see the world by private jet, you soon won't have to look further than your favorite luxury hotel brand.

When my husband and I traveled to Norway and the Arctic Circle last year, we decided to stay in an otherworldly ice hotel — the Sorrisniva Igloo Hotel at Sorrisniva Arctic Wilderness Lodge in Alta, Norway.

If you have China on your travel Bingo card for 2025, I have good news for you. Effective immediately, Americans will be able to visit the country for up to 10 days without a visa.

Australian officials have issued warnings for travelers to be alert for potential methanol poisoning after seven tourists were hospitalized in Fiji last week after drinking alcohol-based cocktails at a luxury resort bar. The alert comes less than a month after six backpackers in Laos died, and others were hospitalized, from what some officials worldwide suspect was methanol poisoning. An investigation into causes behind the hospitalizations in Fiji is ongoing, according to the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation, which said the cases are an isolated event.

Norwegian Cruise Line announced a second round of cruise cancellations on December 10, this time impacting winter 2025-26 sailings onboard the Norwegian Breakaway, Norwegian Bliss and Norwegian Encore ships, citing “fleet redeployments.” 

The most exciting new cruise ship debuting in 2025 comes from a line you might not expect.

This story is part of Conde Nast Traveler's spotlight on family cruise travel.

Winter blues got you daydreaming about a private Caribbean island vacation? As expensive as they might sound, you don't have to break the bank to go to one.