Seattle based ultra luxary brand Seabourn Cruises has announced that they have reached and agreement with Fincantieri S.p.A. in Italy. She will be based on the Odyssey class of ships, launched in 2009 with the Odyssey (pictured above). The new ship…
UPDATE II: And here’s an official promo video. UPDATE: And its just been confirmed! Turns out the announcement was made official at an awards show in London. P&O just updated their site: A bold new look! Britannia will embrace a bold…
UPDATE Jan 14, 2014: Royal Caribbean PR have just released a new photo of the progress of the Quantum: Originally Published on Jan 12, 2014 @ 14:17 [embedvideo id=”_DbqkLNUxGI” website=”youtube”] Captured just a few days ago, this video shows several…
Vance Gulliksen Carnival Spokesperson: I can confirm that Carnival Cruise Lines is returning to Norfolk in 2015 to operate a series of cruises in the spring and fall. Specific ship, date and itinerary information is still being finalized.
In light of the recent success lines have had with their ultimate drink packages, NCL has announced a package that allows guests to dine at the additional fee restaurants for one flat fee. Norwegian Cruise Line today introduced an all-new…
Speaking onboard his newest ship, the Getaway, NCL CEO Kevin Sheehan made the announcement that NCL will deploy its largest ship, the Norwegian Epic, to Europe yearround starting April 2015. The 4,100pax ship will sail Mediterranean cruises out of Barcelona. Kevin…
Tune in here for live updates. You can also access the Getaway hub from the top of the page as well. I developed this page as a resource for all the latest info on NCL’s newest cruise ship. Hope you…
This is an archived post that originally appeared on CruiseInd on Jan 11, 2014 @ 12:11 Inaugural Schedule Track the Getaway Live NCL Getaway Homepage Current Time onboard the Getaway The Latest: This Page will be updated throughout her first…
Its only a minor difference, but enough to make one ship bigger than the other. When launched last spring, the Norwegian Breakaway came in at 146,600gt. Her recently launched sister, the Norwegian Getaway, is measuring 145,655gt. According to a CruiseInd source, the…
Norwegian Cruise Line has officially taken delivery of the 114,000GT Norwegian Getaway. The 4,000pax ship is now officially Norwegian’s. She is currently on her way to Rotterdam for a quick stop. She’ll arrive tomorrow. Afterwards she’ll be making her way…
UPDATE: Cruise Critic is reporting that a port in Britain is among 12 ports/groups that are in the process of bidding to accept the Concordia. Teesside Environmental Reclamation and Recycling facility (TERRC) at Able Seaton Port in Hartlepool, on the…
Tradewinds posted: Passengers on the seven-day Mexico cruise had been posting inquiries about the incident for days but the Carnival subsidiary did not break its silence until today. The ship in question was the 57,092gt Veendam belonging to Holland America. Anti-cruise blog Cruise Law…
In what can only be attributed to bad timing and bad luck, these two stories popped up right next to each other on CruiseCritic’s RSS feeds: As background, Jeff Bezos Amazon’s CEO and drone enthusiast, was recently evacuated from a cruise…
Port Canaveral has just broken ground on a 50 million dollar new cruise terminal. It will be located in a vacant area on the ports south side. The 187,500 square foot facility is scheduled to open in November 2014.…
In an interesting twist to the “will she/won’t she” be sold, Celebrity has now come out and denied claims that they will be selling their oldest ship, the 1995-built Celebrity Century. It was report earlier last month that the deal…
The U.S. state department has just issued a travel warning for its citizens travelling to Honduras. They rank the crime and violence in the central american country as Critically High. Travelers can take solace in knowing that the crime rates at…
UPDATE January 2: All 52 pax have been finally rescued. They are currently onboard the Australian ice breaker Aurora Australis, and are finally on their way home. BBC has this photo showing the loading of pax onto the helicopter. The helicopter landed…
Viking Cruises announced the keel was laid for its first ocean cruise vessel, Viking Star, marking the next construction phase of the company’s first-ever ocean product. The ceremony took place on Wednesday, December 18, at Fincantieri’s Marghera shipyard outside Venice, Italy. Viking Star is scheduled to…
Carnival has announced that the Carnival Splendor will reposition to Miami in November 2014 for the winter 2014-2015 season. This removes their only ship from yearound service out of New York City. She’ll be back in the summer 2015 for…
UPDATE December 26: MSC and Fincantieri have announced that they came to an agreement on a €200m program to refit and stretch the 4 Liricia class ships. They will add the rumored 200 cabins to each ship via a stretching. The…
Seatrade is reporting that Fincanteri is currently working on a prototype for a new MSC Cruises vessel. The details are unknown at this time, however the size is estimated in the 150,000gt and over 308m loa.The ship with have the…
Happy Holidays from all of us at CruiseInd. Photo of the The Grand Lobby on board Queen Victoria. From Cunard.
Getting work done at the airport. Too bad I don’t get to board her….this time.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just issues a travel notice for travelers headed to the Dutch/French Island of St Martin. There are currently 10 reported cases of Chikungunya, which is a virus spread from mosquito bites, on…