Norwegian Cruise Line just announced a change to their summer deployment next year. This may seem last minute but that’s the benefit of a smaller fleet of ships to manage. The biggest highlight is that the Norwegian Sun will reposition…
The Norwegian Joy was just christened in China so I thought it might be interesting to take a look at Norwegian Cruise Lines first purpose built ship for the Chinese market. Shes a slightly modified Breakaway-plus class vessel which closely…
The below originally posted in 2017. You can follow along with the 2019 restrictions here. UPDATE 6/16/2017 PM:The new policy for US-Cuban relations going forward is out. As predicted, it won’t interfere with cruise operations too much. The relations will…
I had the opportunity last month to board the Norwegian Sky for a quick tour so I could document it for CruiseInd. This review will encompass the public areas and select cabins. It will consist of high-res photos and panoramas.…
Norwegian Cruise Line just announced the first details we have for their ambitious newbuild project. They will call it Project Leonardo. This first ship will be delivered in 2022 with future orders in 2023, 2024, and 2025. There’s also an…
Norwegian Cruise Line’s first purpose built ship for the Chinese market has just been floated out in Germany. This is our first time seeing what she’ll look like. While she may look like a modified version of the Breakaway-plus class,…
I had the opportunity last month to board the Norwegian Escape for a quick tour so I could document it for CruiseInd. This review will encompass the public areas and select cabins. It will consist of high-res panoramas and 360…
Norwegian Cruise Line announced that they have ordered four ships from Fincantieri. The new ships are scheduled for delivery in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, with an option for two additional ships in 2026 and 2027. Each ship will be 140,000gt…
NCL has announced that when not sailing Alaska out of her summer-homeport of Seattle, their newest and largest ship, Norwegian Bliss, will be winter-homeported in Miami. Commencing on November 17, 2018, Norwegian Bliss will sail 7-night Eastern Caribbean routes every Saturday. …
It’s official, US Cruise lines can now sail US passengers to Cuba from US ports. The US Government just handed approval to a bunch of cruise lines today. Let’s take a look. Royal Caribbean Cruises received approval for Royal Caribbean…
NCL recently made two announcements about their newest flag ship, Norwegian Bliss. This is in addition to the announcement that she will sail Alaska when launched. The first was that construction has finally begun. Representatives from NCL and Meyer…
Norwegian Cruise Line’s 2018 new build, Norwegian Bliss, will be seasonally based in Seattle and sail Alaskan cruises, the line announced today. The ship will be a breakaway plus vessel and a sister to the Norwegian Escape. The press release(below)…
NCL’s first dedicated Chinese newbuild will sport the above hull art what do you think? The Miami based cruise line hired Chinese artist Tan Ping to design the artwork. The design includes a phoenix which you can just make out on…
NCL today unveiled several onboard venues for their Shanghai & Tianjin based ship, Norwegian Joy. The highlight is easily the go kart track on the top deck. The full press release is at the bottom of this post. NCL seems…
NCL just announced details on their mysterious ‘2017 newbuild’. I say mysterious because when it was announced, no one really knew where this ship would fit in Meyer Werft’s yard orderbook. The below official release has her in China in…
The Norwegian Escape Liveblog is here. You can use the link below or access it anytime from the menu above. Hope you can follow along with me as NCL’s latest flagship is launched. Norwegian Escape Liveblog
This is an archived post that originally appears on CruiseInd Oct 13, 2015 @ 09:59 Now that Norwegian Escape has arrived in her new home, I’m going to end this live blog. As always, thank’s for following. Hello and welcome to…
NCL mentioned back in August that they were deploying the Norwegian Star to Asia. Now they are doubling down by placing a ‘new build’ direct from the yard to the Chinese market. An interesting note here, the presser below makes…
NCL’s latest newbuild, Norwegian Escape, has successfully completed the Ems river transit. She’s now berthed in the fitting out pier in Eemshaven in the Netherlands. She’s on schedule to sail on her inaugural preview cruise on October 25th from Hamburg…
Norwegian Escape was just floated out in Papenburg, Germany. This is the first time the public is being able to see the Guy Harvey artwork on the hull. What does everyone think?
Norwegian Cruise Line announced that they will expand to the Asian market. It was speculated that the Star would be the one going over there and now it’s confirmed. NCL is the latest line to join the ever expanding Asian…
Norwegian Dawn Webcam Norwegian Breakaway Webcam UPDATE Wednesday Noon: NCL’s latest statmenet and the last update on this: On Wednesday, May 20, a thorough assessment of Norwegian Dawn…
The Norwegian Star recent completed a drydock and returned to service on March 17, 2015. It seems one of her azipods has been acting up ever since and NCL has been forced to return the ship to drydock to fix…
Kind of surprising news here. In October, it was announced that Drew Masden would take over as COO; as they started shedding some of soon-to-depart Kevin Sheehan’s responsibilities. Today, NCL announced that he resigned and long time favorite Andy Stuart…
When the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro start up, 3,963 guests will be staying onboard the Norwegian Getaway. The IOC has announced that they time chartered the ship for the duration of the summer games. She’ll provide Rio de Janeiro…