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While watching the Olympics on NBC, Royal Caribbean showed a commercial for their webseries called Caribbean Cup Challenge. It features 3 former olympic athletes competing in various competitions onbard and ashore. The series can be viewed on their YouTube…
UPDATE: Their website is back, but if you want to view it, its here. And the error page is fantastic! royalcaribbean.com may be down, but the view is pretty spectacular. — Cruise Currents (@CruiseCurrents) February 21, 2014
From Cunard: In a world-first, more than 120 crew aboard Cunard Line’s flagship Queen Mary 2 gathered together on the ship’s bow in Sydney today for a dramatic portrait marking the legendary liner’s 10th birthday. The history-making photo captured crew from every one…
The first of the Breakaway-plus class ships, the Norwegian Escape, won’t be launching until October 2015. However NCL have teased us with several images of her accommodations. Pretty much an exact mirror of Norwegian Breakaway/Getaway’s. All photos can be found…
Its being reported that while undergoing her bunkering operation in the Falkland Islands, the barge allided with the Celebrity Century. There was one lifeboat davit that was damaged. They were eventually able to repair it and the ship sailed at…
UPDATE: Some notes on the earnings: Kevin Sheehan told investors on the earnings call, that bookings have softened a bit from earlier. At that point in time, NCL was selling cruises at double digit increases. They forecast a 4% yield increase…
NCL recently announced that they will be retrofitting six ships with exhaust scrubbers. This is a technology whereby the exhaust is essentially scrubbed of sulfur oxides by running it through seawater before venting it through the funnel. The company has contracted…
Passenger on Cruise Ship Killed by Freak Wave (kiii tv) Were not even a full two months into the new year and we already have what probably is a contender for the worst story of the year. This comes from the…
No announcement on where her new home will be but my money is on France’s CDF Cruises. via CruiseCurrents: After much speculation and rumors, the oldest ship in Celebrity’s fleet, the 19 year old Celebrity Century, will be leaving the…
P&O Cruises have released some renderings of their upcoming flagship. The interiors have a very bright sense to them. That’s a trend were seeing lately. In the early 2000’s it was about bight, but bold colors. We’re still seeing some of that…