Holland America Line, a leader in premium cruising, has earned top honors with nine 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards from Porthole Cruise Magazine, one of the world’s leading cruise travel publications. The awards included Best Alaska Itineraries, Best Medium-Sized Ship for ms Nieuw Amsterdam and Best Private Island for Half Moon Cay, its exclusive island in the Bahamas.

Porthole Cruise Magazine’s Readers’ Choice Awards are determined by thousands of the publication’s readers who vote on their favorite cruise lines in a variety of categories.

With today marking Regis Philbin’s last day on television’s popular daytime talk show, Live with Regis and Kelly, rumors are rampant about what he’ll be doing next. Here’s one truth: come March 13, he’ll be heading east—the Far East that is, as a guest speaker aboard Crystal Cruises’ Hong Kong to Osaka voyage of its World Cruise.

Multiple Emmy Award-winner and the Guinness World Record holder for “most hours on camera,” Philbin is renowned in the U.S. for more than 50 years hosting TV talk shows, game shows, and a plethora of other entertainment programming. As part of Crystal’s award-winning enrichment program, guests will have a rare opportunity to see, and interact with, the ever-affable “Reeg,” speaking about his life and legendary career.