Tagged: American Cruise Lines

American Cruise Lines announces that February 18th will mark the opening of the Line’s 2023 U.S. cruise season, when American Star departs from sunny Florida. (more…)

American Cruise Lines has announced today, that American Jazz, one of the company’s 10 new riverboats, is repositioning from the Mississippi River to the West Coast for brand new California river cruises beginning in February 2023: the first of their kind since the 1940s. (more…)

You might’ve done Napa by rental car, bus tour, or perhaps even train, but have you done it by river cruise? It’s unlikely, because river cruises are a rarity in California, an unfortunate result of limited waterways and intermittent droughts. (more…)

American Cruise Lines announces 3 new small ships, 10 new itineraries, and 21 new ports for the 2023-2024 season ahead. (more…)

American Cruise Lines proudly announces that American Symphony, the newest riverboat on the Mississippi, has begun cruising the Upper River for the first time this week. (more…)

American Cruise Lines proudly announces a brand new 15-Day “National Parks & Legendary Rivers” itinerary for 2023. Following successful product testing this year, the itinerary will be the country’s largest land-cruise package and the first-ever coupling of a river cruise with the mountain states’ national parks. (more…)

American Cruise Lines proudly announces that American Symphony was christened yesterday, August 30th in Natchez, Mississippi—the new riverboat’s official Godmother City. (more…)

The newest riverboat for the Mississippi River passed sea trials late last week and is on its way to New Orleans for an on-time start to its inaugural season on the Mighty Mississippi. (more…)

American Cruise Lines explores the Mississippi River like no one else— offering unique cruise experiences along the length of the river, from St. Paul to New Orleans—also cruising the famous Mississippi tributaries, the Ohio and Cumberland Rivers. (more…)

American Cruise Lines announced that the 2022 river cruise season on the Columbia and Snake Rivers has begun. In April, American celebrated the new season with the opening of a new cruise dock in Kalama, WA, which the company built in partnership with the Port of Kalama. (more…)

American Cruise Lines has officially opened the 2022 cruise season. On Saturday, February 26th, riverboat American Heritage and small cruise ships American Independence and American Star, set sail on the Mississippi River and in the Southeast. (more…)

American Cruise Lines is pleased to reveal details of Project Blue—a brand new fleet of go-anywhere ships for the U.S. market. (more…)

American Cruise Lines announced that its fleet of four classic paddlewheelers will be undergoing a major redesign, refit, and rebranding. The new interior design will bring paddlewheel cruising to the same sophisticated standard already exhibited on American’s newest modern riverboats, while retaining traditional elements true to steamboat history. (more…)

American Cruise Lines is pleased to announce it has accepted delivery of “American Melody” from Chesapeake Shipbuilding on time. Despite various challenges, the Maryland shipyard continued building through the pandemic and delivered American Melody, as promised and on schedule. (more…)

American Cruise Lines said Friday efforts are taking longer than expected to assist the American Jazz riverboat off a stranded sandbar in Kentucky. The Coast Guard assisted in disembarking the 120 passengers stranded on the boat. (fox17.com)

An American Cruise Lines river cruise with more than 160 people on board is aground near Canton, Kentucky. It now seems they will begin evacuating the vessel. Reports say the ship has been aground since Wednesday, when it strayed from the main shipping and planted itself on sandbar in just feet of water. (gcaptain.com)

American Cruise Lines announced today (June 15, 2021) that it has signed contracts with Chesapeake Shipbuilding of Salisbury, MD, to build 2 more modern riverboats in 2022. (more…)

American Cruise Lines announced that its 2021 season has begun with the first 6 of its 13 ships now operating in 8 different states around the country. (more…)

American Cruise Lines is pleased to announce that it now has six ships in the Pacific Northwest for 2021, with four of them operating on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. (more…)