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UPDATE February 2015: Corrected the original article. Canamerica Cruises are in fact not looking for outside investors in the venture. Also correct the number of passengers the Scotia Prince carried during her most successful season. I’ve always been closely…
Semester at Seas was always a unique product. Their lone vessel Explorer (ex-Olympic Explorer) will head to a new home with Louis cruises this spring. That leaves the fall semester without a vessel. It’s being reported that they are stepping…
via Royal Caribbean: Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. today announced that Majesty of the Seas will transfer from its Royal Caribbean International cruise brand to its Pullmantur brand in 2016. Majesty of the Seas’ last 3-night sailing for Royal Caribbean International…
Princess cruises have agreed to sell the small 826-pax, 30,277gt, Ocean Princess to Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings [NCLH]. They will sail the ship under Oceania Cruises operations. Remember NCL purchased Prestige, and with it Oceania Cruises. She will join her…
via Royal Caribbean: Royal Caribbean International’s Voyager of the Seas, the largest cruise ship based in Asia Pacific, has just successfully completed her month-long $80 million revitalization bringing guests in the region a variety of first-at-sea features such as the FlowRider…
Here’s one of the first views that we have of what the newly Stretched MSC vessel’s will look like.
A rather uninspiring title, however interesting premise none-the-less. Reports suggest that former Home Improvement show runners are currently writing a sitcom that will be cruise ship centric for NBC. No further details are known at this point but it will…
**Make sure you’re following our Quantum of the Seas live blog. As she’s about to start her regular itineraries, the coverage will end soon, so make sure you’re all caught up. A group of pax on the maiden transatlantic voyage…
The worlds largest cruise ship recently made a stop in drydock last month. The Oasis of the Seas is so large that there are only a select few drydocks cable of handling the 225,282gt ship. Taking place in Rotterdam, Netherlands…
Costa Cruises held a lavish naming event for Costa Diadema in its headquarters city of Genoa, Italy. At 132,500 tons and more than 1,000 feet long, Costa’s new flagship, the “Regina del Mediterraneo” or Queen of the Mediterranean, was built at Fincantieri’s…