Greg Dragonetti

Greg Dragonetti

Greg (he/him) is the founder and editor of CruiseInd. He has been writing about the cruise industry since 2009 and studying it since 1998. His first ship was the Norwegian Majesty.

Spirit of Oceanus Sold [OFFICIAL]

Here is an update of the Cruise West/Spirit of Oceanus saga. The Spirit of Oceanus has officially been sold by Cruise West. The buyer is Danish investment firm TN Cruise K They will have International Shipping Partners manage the the…

Hurricane Igor

Hurricane Igor, click above image for awesome NASA pic, is already a cat 4 storm and pretty much directly headed to Bermuda. Seriously, see below. You don’t get more head on than that. UPDATE: Royal Caribbean will alter the Oasis…

Crazy Video of Ship in Bad Weather

The above video is taken from the cruise ship Pacific Sun of P&O Australia. She encountered extremely rough seas in 2008. I know its old but the CCTV leaked and has made its rounds on the internets yesterday and thought…

BREAKING: Cruise West to Cease Operations?

According to their Chairman, Dick West, apparently not. Rumors broke out during the weekend that the troubled small-ship line was sold and all cruises cancelled. Then it was rumored by uber-cruise-site CruiseCritic, that only the Spirit of Oceanus was impacted…

Rumor Mill: New NCL ships?

Cruise social media guru Gene Sloan of  USA Today, tweeted this: So far @NCLFreestyle isn’t commenting on talk line in deal with Germany’s Meyer Werft for two 138,000-ton, 4,050-passenger vessels. The lines other ships were all built at Meyer Werft…

Webcam Grab Due to Earl

So due to the changes mentioned in a previous post, here is a webcam grab that is very rare. Princess no longer sails into the New York Passenger Ship Terminal’s finger piers up the Hudson. Since the QM2 gets priority…