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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…
She looks ready to sail to New York!
The Norwegian Getaway has just departed on her first Sea trial based out of Eemshaven. Over the weekend she transited the Ems river towards the North Sea as she left Meyer Weft for the last and final time. Here are…
Norwegian Cruise Line and Nintendo of America announced that they are expanding their partnership to offer Wii U ™ video game systems and Wii U games fleetwide. As part of the partnership expansion, the line will feature Nintendo’s newest video…
Back in August, Norwegian Cruise Line announced that they were going to be altering their newest ships Inaugural festivities. Today it was announced that Bud Light, more specifically Anheuser-Busch inBev, are the charterers of the ship. They will transform her into…
Norwegian Cruise Line (Nasdaq:NCLH) Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd., NCL Corporation Ltd., “Norwegian” or “the Company”), today reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2013, and provided guidance for the fourth quarter and full year 2013. Quarter Highlights Adjusted Net Income growth of…
NCL’s latest ship is now sporting her hull art. What does everyone think?
Norwegian Cruise Lines has announced the names of their two Breakaway-plus vessels: Norwegian Bliss and Norwegian Escape. Due to launch out of Meyer Werft beginning in 2015, the 163,000grt ships will be similar to the current Breakaway class, but with…
The original itinerary of Rotterdam or Southampton to Miami has been replaced with Rotterdam/Southampton to New York. The reason; the Norwegian Getaway has been privately chartered from January 29, 2014 to February 5, 2014 for Super Bowl XLVIII. It will…
75 acres in Southern Belize will be converted into an eco-friendly cruise terminal. NCL will invest $50 million to turn Harvest Caye into their private port. This seems like it will be NCL’s version of Royal Caribbean’s Labadee in Haiti.…
Russian port authorities have announced that they have time chartered NCL’s Norwegian Jade as well as the former Baltic, now Mediterranean, ferry SNAV Toscana for the winter Olympics. The ships will be used as accommodation vessels. This is pretty similar…
Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCLH) successful IPO has spurred a second offering of common stock. UBS and Barclays will be underwriting it. In a S-1 filing obtained by Seatrade, the breakdown is as follows: Genting HK (Star NCLC) offering 10m shares…
As they promised to do in the recent congressional hearing. Here are the voluntarily released crime statistics form the big three. Carnival Corp Norwegian Cruise Line Royal Caribbean
In short, NCL posted a reasonably positive-mixed quarterly earnings. They beat their earnings per share by $0.02, however missed their target revenue by $14.86 million. This last parts a killer. Their stock is trading lower now because of it. But…
Norwegian Cruise Line confirmed that they have picked up the option for a second “Breakaway Plus.” Like her sister, she will be built at Germany’s Meyer Werft yard and is slated for a Spring 2017 delivery.
NCL is reporting that while on her way back from Bermuda to New York, strong winds ripped off a divider between two balconies in the forward part of the ship. Gusts were reportedly as high as 60 kts. Official statement…
Norwegian Cruise Line posted a loss of $96 million, or $0.49 per share, on revenues of $527.6 million for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013, compared to net income of $3.2 million, or $0.02 per share, on revenues of…
Chris Owen of Chriscruises & Gadling offers us the following case: New ships are something special to be sure. Packed with the best of what a cruise line has to offer, the hope is often for a ship to be…
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NCL CEO Kevin Sheehan announced that they have officially ordered a sister ship to the Breakaway Plus. She’s being called internally “Breakaway Plus II.” She will be the same 163000GRT and carry 4200 pax (double occupancy). She will be scheduled…
Ship photographer Andreas Depping has posted hundreds of high res photos from his tour of the brand new Norwegian Breakaway. This gets CruiseInd’s highest recommendation. You can view the main gallery here: Norwegian Breakawy – Panorama views from Deck 8,…