2026 World Cruise
January 6 - May 27, 2026
Tuesday, May 16, 2026 – Sailing from Banjul, The Gambia, to Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain.
Where in the World Are We?
10:00 Destination Lecture with Chris McPherson: “Funchal: A Garden City Rising from the Bay”.
Join Chris, your destination speaker, for an exploration into the history, culture and cuisine of Funchal, Madeira.
10:45 Enrichment Lecture with Cruise Director Moss Hills: “Sinking Of The Oceanos”.
Cruise Director Moss Hills was on board when it started sinking in the middle of the night with 571 people on board. During a terrible storm, senior officers abandoned the sinking ship and left everyone behind. It was the entertainers who stepped in to try to rescue everyone.
2:00 Enrichment Lecture with Scott Cutler: ”Digital Hygiene: Safeguarding Your Online Presence”.
Stay ahead of cyber threats—learn essential strategies to protect your personal data, secure your accounts, and maintain a strong digital identity in an interconnected world.
3:00 Enrichment Lecture with Mike Reiss: “The Science of Jokes”.
Why do we laugh? What makes something funny? Learn about jokes from a man who’s written 70,000 of them!
GARY WILLIAMS
PRE-DINNER SHOW
Star of the West End’s “Rat Pack”, Gary Williams has performed worldwide, from New York’s Carnegie Hall to Buckingham Palace, Birdland Tokyo to The Royal Albert Hall.
Described as “The UK’s leading standard bearer for the supercool era” by the London Evening Standard, he wrote the performers’ bible Cabaret Secrets, has recorded at Abbey Road Studios, presented programs for the BBC and was profiled in the Sunday Times’ ‘Fame and Fortune’.
Dinner was in The Atlantide Restaurant.
THE TOMMY DORSEY ORCHESTRA
In Big Band history, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra is recognized as one of the best all-around bands. It could swing with the best of them, and no other band could come close to Tommy’s when it came to playing ballads, especially when they were sung by a young Frank Sinatra. Now under the direction of trombonist Jeff Bush, today’s TDO carries on the tradition by playing the biggest hits such as Opus One, Song Of India, and Marie. Going far beyond a “tribute” show, The TDO includes fresh, new arrangements of entertaining material that fits the swinging Dorsey tradition.