The Eastern Med is awash with great ports for cruise ships to call at. Pamela Wade picks some of the best.

Cruising might be more popular than ever, but there are still plenty of travellers who have yet to discover the joys of a holiday at sea.

Twenty years ago, Jennie Bond and her husband embarked on a 'one-off' cruise, just to say they'd done it ...

A cruise ship worker has opened up about the alleged low pay, cramped rooms and incestuous behaviour he experienced at sea.

Ben Boyce's family went on a Disney Cruise. It was bloody amazing set up, for a Mickey Mouse operation.

Alaska, the largest state in the American Union, is extraordinary and extraordinarily hard to visit.

Cruise aficionado Tom O'Neil boards the Paul Gauguin for a luxurious cruise to French Polynesia.

There's a whole new way for Kiwis to ride the waves. Miriyana Alexander went to Barcelona to check it out.

Cruise ship employees have revealed what it's really like to live and work at sea for months at a time.

It's like a giant chunk of chalk tumbled out of the sky, shattering on to a sparkling, turquoise glass floor.

Enter the Panama Canal through the colonial city of Colon, which is home to many descendants of the Afro-Caribbean workers who helped build it.

To mark her return to Australia, Pacific Pearl's four-day cruise will feature a number of friendly Aussies versus Kiwis battle.

The see-food-and-eat-it diet is alive and well at sea, discovers Patricia Greig.

The daughter of a Perth man says her sick father was left to find his own way home after he was kicked off a P&O cruise ship for flicking a cigarette overboard.

Conveniently close to one of the country's top grape-growing areas, visitors can jump off the boat at Picton and head towards Blenheim for a range of wine tastings. O

Lynley Bilby is currently travelling from England to Norway and back on the Emerald Princess. She will be posting updates throughout the trip.

Lynley Bilby is currently travelling from England to Norway on the Emerald Princess. She will be posting updates throughout the trip.

Lynley Bilby is currently travelling from England to Norway on the Emerald Princess. She will be posting updates throughout the trip.

Things are about to heat up on the Azamara Quest when a couples-only, clothing-optional cruise sets sail.

Towering 162m above the Rhine, castles don't come much more postcard-ready than the glorious Marksburg.

Kiwis are cruising more than ever - it's practically becoming a national holiday tradition.

Royal Caribbean's massive Harmony of the Seas vessel will soon be usurped as the world's largest cruise ship.

COMMENT: If you thought that travelling by ship might be better for the environment than flying or driving a car, you would be sadly mistaken.

Kiwis continue to take cruises in record numbers attracted by new ships and destinations in this region and around the world.

Gliding along the river with a cocktail in hand, as stars twinkle above me, I'm certain there is no better way to travel.

Greg Fleming cruises (and sometimes jogs) across the Tasman on Celebrity Solstice

With cruise ships carrying millions of holidaymakers every year, crew regularly come across items left behind by forgetful passengers - and some are stranger than others.

A 10-minute taxi ride, or 30 to 40-minute walk, will take you to the city's downtown area, where Dubai Mall and the Burj Khalifa are located.

A distraught couple looked on in tears as a cruise ship sailed away with their young children on board after they missed the departure time.

Windows were smashed and passengers were injured after a 'freak wave' hit the Rhapsody of the Seas cruise ship on Monday.