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May 23, 2013

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Festiva Sailing Vacations offers sailings in British Virgin Islands

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Festiva Sailing Vacations is offering the ideal family summer vacation — a seven-day all-inclusive sailboat package for a family of four in the British Virgin Islands. The offer is for two adults and two children under the age of 16 for $5,995. On select sailing dates this summer, two families of four will share an [...]

Five For Fun In Grenada

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Five For Fun In Grenada By Nancy Schretter Grenada is an appealing destination for Caribbean cruise passengers. Once best known as the site of a U.S. troop intervention under President Reagan, this lush island paradise is laden with white sand beaches, mountainous rainforests, and spice plantations. Known as the “Isle of Spice,” Grenada produces crops including [...]

Carnival Breeze Preview: Branded Features For All

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Some of the features on new Carnival Breeze that debuts in a few days,  were first on Carnival Magic. On sister-ship Carnival Magic, those features proved so popular that they were included in Carnival’s FunShip 2.0 initiative, a $500 million upgrade to existing ships in the fleet.  That’s all part of a branding focus that [...]

Royal Caribbean to deploy second cruise ship to China 2013

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Royal Caribbean International announced at a press conference today in Beijing, China that the recently refurbished Mariner of the Seas will head to Asia in June 2013, offering various itineraries from China, Japan, Singapore and Korea. Offering a wide variety of itineraries, ranging from three nights to 12 nights, the move is designed to offer [...]

Crystal Cruises To New Ports, Experiences

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Crystal Cruises’ passion for creating unique luxury experiences both on land and at sea have helped earn the company top ratings from international travelers for two decades. Here’s one reason why.  Crystal will be visiting seven new (to them) European ports-of-call for the first time this year,  stopping in quaint communities, centuries-old fishing villages, and [...]

Cruise Like A Norwegian: Freeport, Bahamas

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Doug is at sea this week aboard Norwegian Sky. This morning started out great.  I woke up around 7am to watch Norwegian Sky pull into Freeport, Bahamas. It was pretty overcast today and really windy so I’m sure a lot of people hung around the pier and didn’t try to go out to the beach. [...]

Norwegian unveils exciting concepts for upcoming cruise ship

New Aqua Park aboard Norwegian Breakaway. (photo: NCL)

When Norwegian Breakaway debuts in April 2012 she’ll have more exciting features like an Aqua Park, outdoor sports complex, ropes course and a new mini-golf area. “Norwegian Breakaway’s outdoor decks will offer spectacular fun and thrills for the entire family,” said ceo Kevin Sheehan, at industry conference Cruise3sixty in Fort Lauderdale on Friday. New concepts: [...]

Carnival announces return to Boston in 2013 with a cruise ship makeover

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Carnival Cruise Lines and Cruiseport Boston announced today that the 2,974-passenger Carnival Glory will be returning to Boston in 2013, offering four to seven-night Atlantic Canadian Cruises. Carnival Glory’s 2013 schedule from Boston will encompass four-day cruises to Saint John, New Brunswick, departing Sundays and five-day voyages to Saint John and Halifax, Nova Scotia, departing [...]

Costa Cruises announces ‘Kids Sail Free’ program

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  Now through Nov. 24, 2012, Costa Cruises is featuring a “Kids Sail Free” program where junior cruisers ages 17 and under can take a cruise vacation and only pay government taxes and fees when sailing as the third or fourth guest in a cabin. Available on most cruises on 11 ships in Costa’s fleet, [...]

Celebrity Cruises secures rights to broadcast 2012 Olympics from London

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It’s estimated that more than one-billion people will tune in for this year’s Olympic Games in the host city of London, and Celebrity Cruises has arranged the rare opportunity for guests sailing on its modern luxury fleet to be among them. From the eagerly anticipated Opening Ceremony July 27 to the celebratory Closing Ceremony August [...]

It’s official, MSC Cruises announces 13th ship

MSC Preziosa. (photo: MSC Cruises)

MSC Cruises officially announced their 13th ship on Tuesday, MSC Preziosa. The 139,500-ton MSC Preziosa will be the fourth ship in the series of Fantasia-class ships. “The new ship represents an investment of €550 million and will be delivered at the end of March 2013. Negotiations with STX France have lasted over nine months; a [...]

Sapphire Princess out of dry dock after refurb

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Princess Cruises Sapphire Princess is sailing again after a three-week stint in dry dock. The many changes to Sapphire Princess include: New Piazza Atrium – The ship’s atrium space has been redesigned to include this signature Princess feature — a European-inspired social hub of the ship combining always-changing quick bites and light meals, beverages, entertainment, [...]

Sapphire Princess Enters Drydock to Add Signature Princess Cruises Features

The atrium shot shows that work is already underway to transform the space into their signature Piazza. (photo: Princess Cruises)

  SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (January 9, 2012) – Sapphire Princess arrives today at the Victoria Shipyards drydock in British Columbia to begin a dramatic, four-week transformation. The drydock continues a multi-year fleet renovation process that has brought Princess Cruises’ signature features to most of its ships. When the ship re-enters service again on February 4, [...]

Norwegian Cruise Line To Introduce New Youth Program

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MIAMI – January 5, 2012 – To better meet the needs of the growing family vacation market, Norwegian Cruise Line announced today that it is revitalizing its current youth program and will implement a new best in class program fleet wide. The re-branded program will be introduced on Norwegian Gem in mid-February and will be [...]

Game-changing EA Sports Bar of Carnival’s Fun Ship 2.0 a proven success

EA Sports Bar aboard Carnival Liberty. (photo: Carnival)

Just how much do guests like the EA Sports Bar on Carnival Liberty after the Fun Ship 2.0 enhancements? Just ask any one of the dozens of guests in there for a Sunday or Monday night football game. It was almost like being at the game itself, after-all this is the first EA Sports bar [...]

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