2012 Theme Cruises

Donny & Marie Osmond host their first Bahamas cruise - Donny & Marie Cruisin' With Friends This cruise sails from Fort Lauderdale on Feb. 28, 2012 on the MSC Poesia. Osmond siblings will also be on board.

Food Network Star Paula Deen hosts Paula Dean & Family Caribbean Party at Sea on the Celebrity Eclipse, sailing from Miami on Jan. 21, 2012.

Vampire Cruise on Holland America's 1,916-passenger Zuiderdam sails Alaska's Inside Passage. Vamps at Sea guests include vampire scholar John Edgar Browning and Dacre Stoker, a great-grandnephew of Dracula author Bram Stoker. Cruise sails from Vancouver - location where Twilight movies were filmed - on June 23, 2012.

Titanic Memorial Cruises - Three cruises focus on the 100th anniversary of the Titanic sinking, and visit the disaster site via the  Azamara Journey and Fred Olsen Cruise Lines Balmoral.

Motorcycle Rally at Sea - Hogs on the High Seas celebrates its 10th motorcycle rally at sea. This cruise sails on Oct. 28-Nov. 4, on Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas from Port Canaveral.

The Jam Cruise celebrates its 10th year cruise sailing on Jan. 9-14, 2012 on the MSC Poesia out of Ft Lauderdale.

The Smooth Jazz Cruise sailings are Jan. 15-22 and Jan. 22-29, 2012 on the Westerdam out of Ft Lauderdale.

Scientific American is hosting "Bright Horizons 11" on Holland America's Eurodam, Jan. 14-21, 2012 out of Ft Lauderdale. Topics include flower and plant evolution, astrophysics, primatology and physical cosmology.

Murder at Sea Cruise - The "Mystery Authors and Mayhem Revealed" cruise sales on May 13-20, 2012 on Allure of the Seas. This cruise brings together best-selling mystery writers with passengers to solve a shipboard whodunit.

NFL Legends Transatlantic Cruise - Football fans mingle with Coach Don Shula and famed fullback Larry Csonka onboard Crystal Serenity in May, 2012.

Baseball Greats - Fans meet up with former Major League stars including Vida Blue and Ken Griffey Sr. Caribbean sailings on the MSC Poesia.

Nudists Midsummer's Eve Cruisecan - Mediterranean sailing on Royal Clipper for 14 nights from Civitavecchia (near Rome), embarking on June 9, with special activities including workshops with relationship advisers.

Political Conservative/Liberal Cruises - The National Review and The Nation have competing annual sailings on Holland America. Conservatives (Nov. 12-19 on MS Eurodam, and liberals (Dec. 11-18 on MS Nieuw Amsterdam.

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