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.

Royal Caribbean Cruises Reports Q1 2019 Earnings

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Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. today reported record first quarter results and updated its full year Adjusted EPS guidance to a range of $9.65 to $9.85 per share.  This range includes negative impacts of $0.25 related to the incident in the Grand Bahama Shipyard and approximately $0.25 as a…

First Look: Coral Adventurer

Australia’s Coral Expeditions took delivery of their largest vessel. VIEW CORAL ADVENTURER DECK PLANS The 120pax purpose build expedition ship was built in Vietnam at VARD. The ship takes its inspiration from the North Sea vessels that VARD has had…

First Look: Costa Venezia

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Costa Cruises just started sailing their first purpose built ship for China. Before we begin looking at her public areas, first some background. Carnival Corp designs ships for multi-brand deployment. The Venezia is part of the Vista-class of ships. She…

Recap Seatrade Cruise Global Final Day

Seatrade Cruise Global 2019 has come and gone. Here’s what happened today: The biggest news of the day is Celebrity Cruises announcing that they will build a fifth Edge-class ship. The ship will be built in France, like her sisters,…

Recap Seatrade Cruise Global Day 2

Just some quick notes from the show floor from the second day: Viking Ocean Cruises announced that they will start up a new cruise line in China. With the assistance of China Merchants Group, they aim to have cruises world…

Recap Seatrade Cruise Global Day 1

Just some quick notes from the show floor from the first day: The day started off with the annual State of the Industry. You can see our recap here as well as my commentary. There was Carnival’s awesome and over…