COURTESY Explora Journeys: Miami, January 8, 2024 – Explora Journeys, the luxury lifestyle ocean travel brand of the MSC Group, has launched its first ‘wave season’ promotion in the US, ‘The Total Luxury Offer’. Guests can benefit from up to 40 percent savings on their journey when they book either an Ocean Terrace Suite or Ocean Grand Terrace Suite. The special offer is applicable for sailings on both EXPLORA I and EXPLORA II up to April 2026, on …
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When Gianluigi Aponte met Rafaela Diamant Pinas, an empire began. For those of us who love a great romance, you can’t do much better than this. Ship Captain Gianluigi Aponte met a passenger aboard one of his sailings. Her name was Rafaela Diamant Pinas. Just another shipboard romance? Hardly! The Neapolitan sailor and his Swiss bride went on to create the largest privately owned cruise ship company in the world. MSC Cruises consists of 16 cruise ships …
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