Captain Stubing and the rest of The Love Boat crew would no doubt be shedding a tear or few over the sale of their beloved vessel.

New year, new cruise resumption dates for several Carnival Corp brands, so tell your clients they won’t need to add seasickness tablets to their shopping lists anytime soon.

In case you need another reason to convince your clients to book their post-pandemic cruise, Princess Cruises has just sweetened the deal.

Princess Cruises’ leading lady has climbed Carnival’s leadership ladder once more.

Another day, another cruise pause update from your trusty buddies at Travel Weekly. You can thank us by sending cupcakes and a bottle of vodka.

The company has been ordered to prove it is adhering to the requirements relating to past charges against a subsidiary, which was convicted for discharging oily waste in 2016.

Meanwhile, Travel Weekly has extended its pause on office drinks after a particularly bad incident involving a pot plant and copious amounts of slivovitz.

No, your eyes are not deceiving you – we’ve published our Wednesday Cruise Wrap on a Thursday this week! And, as you can imagine, it has led to complete and total anarchy in the Travel Weekly office.

Princess Cruises has waved bon voyage to two of its ships in line with parent company Carnival’s plan to speed up the removal of less-efficient vessels.

This week’s Cruise Wrap is practically bursting at the seams with positive outlooks, banger deals and agent offers. And if that doesn’t tickle your fancy, we don’t know what will.

Get set for Travel Weekly’s famous Cruise Wrap! And by famous, we mean our editor’s mum prints it out and sticks it on her fridge.

And by ACA, we mean the Australian Cruise Association – not A Current Affair. You have our word that Tracy Grimshaw does not appear in this article.