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Cruising: Roving the rivers

River cruises are growing in popularity, particularly across Europe. Pamela Wade explains why.

Cruising: Classical note to star voyage

Rod Emmerson looks at the nuts and bolts of a luxury cruise through the Greek Isles and Turkish Coast.

Cruising: Due south

Sarah Marshall travels effortlessly from downtown Auckland to a world beyond Earth.

Cruising: All new Viking invasion

Those axe-wielding, marauding Norse ancients would be so envious of the comforts on today's ships, writes Catherine Masters.

Cruise travellers in sights of levy

Cruise ship travellers look likely to be charged a higher rate - possibly nearly $3 per person more - than others under a new levy imposed from January on all travellers arriving and leaving New Zealand.

Cruising: Sailing solo

Party of one Helen van Berkel boards an ocean liner for a Pacific cruise and learns that being on your own is far from lonesome.

Cruising: The motion of the ocean

Marty Silk is pleasantly surprised to have all his preconceptions quashed on an enjoyable, exciting and elegant cruise to Moreton Island.

Cruise holidays: Our ship has come in

Kiwis are well known as a cruisy lot and the big lines are offering ever more options to entice us on board.

Cruising: Sail to South America

New Zealanders will be able to travel to South America by cruise ship for the first time following the news that Princess Cruises will offer a circumnavigation of the region from Downunder in early 2017.

Samoa: A real Treasure Island

Paul Rush samples the simple pleasures of Robert Louis Stevenson's Samoa.

Coasting through Italy

Bev Wood experiences the Italian capacity for both wild frenzy and languid indolence.

Hungary: A guest of Buda and Pest

Budapest is one of the most elegant and charming of European capitals, and certainly one of the cheapest.

Europe: Waltzing down the Danube

Taking to the mighty Danube River in luxury and style and a bed so comfortable that the memory of it brings a tear to your eye is a marvellous way to travel, writes Sophie Barclay.

Cruising: The isle of fine

In an azure and cobalt bay, gentle sea creatures welcome Phil Welch to the 'closest island to paradise'.

Sub-Antarctic Islands: Call of the wild

The marine animals and birdlife on the remote sub-Antarctic Islands captivate Isobel Marriner.

Cruising: Rock around the croc

On the ship Orion, Jane Archer heads to Australia's Kimberley region to scale waterfalls, sample helicopter tours and spot man-eating beasts (from the safety of a rubber dinghy).