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Serenade of the Seas Delayed in NOLA. Sailed Without ~500pax

A rather tense turnaround day for Royal Caribbean in New Orleans yesterday. While traveling up the Mississippi River yesterday morning, the 90,090gt Serenade of the Seas experienced ‘navigational issues,’ then a burst pipe led to flooding of several cabins and…

Royal Caribbean Executive Promotions Update

via Royal Caribbean: Recognizing the deep bench of internal talent that has powered its long-term success, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd named two senior company executives to chart the future course of the company’s two largest brands. Michael Bayley, who worked…

Finance Friday: Royal Caribbean Added to S&P 500

Full presser via PRNewswire: S&P Dow Jones Indices will make the following changes to the S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600 indices effective after the close of trading on Thursday, December 4: Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE:RCL)…

Majesty of the Seas To Transfer to Pullmantur in 2016

via Royal Caribbean: Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. today announced that Majesty of the Seas will transfer from its Royal Caribbean International cruise brand to its Pullmantur brand in 2016. Majesty of the Seas’ last 3-night sailing for Royal Caribbean International…

Voyager of the Seas Emerges From Drydock

via Royal Caribbean: Royal Caribbean International’s Voyager of the Seas, the largest cruise ship based in Asia Pacific, has just successfully completed her month-long $80 million revitalization bringing guests in the region a variety of first-at-sea features such as the FlowRider…

Quantum of the Seas Interiors

**Make sure you’re following our Quantum of the Seas live blog. As she’s about to start her regular itineraries, the coverage will end soon, so make sure you’re all caught up. A group of pax on the maiden transatlantic voyage…

[Analysis] Changes Made to Oasis in Recent Drydock & Why

The worlds largest cruise ship recently made a stop in drydock last month. The Oasis of the Seas is so large that there are only a select few drydocks cable of handling the 225,282gt ship. Taking place in Rotterdam, Netherlands…

Quantum of the Seas Inaugural Blog [Page 2]

This is an archived post that originally appeared on CruiseInd on Oct 29, 2014 @ 16:31 CLICK HERE FOR LATEST POSTS ON THE QUANTUM OF THE SEAS LIVEBLOG ARCHIVE October 27: October 25: Quantum of the Seas is still currently…

Royal Caribbean Reports Q3 2014 Earnings

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. today reported third quarter results and provided a preliminary outlook for 2015. Net Yields and Net Cruise Costs as well as Adjusted Net Income all performed about as expected for the quarter generating Adjusted Net Income…

Oasis Returns from Drydock

Oasis has sailed from her drydock and is now berthed in Rotterdam. These two webcams come courtesy of virtualvisit.nl. Over on CruiseCritic, someone has released the total changes. I have yet to cross check them with the deckplans as they…

Steel Cutting for Ovation of the Seas

With Quantum of the Seas about to head out of Papenburg Germany, Meyer Werft is wasting no time. Today they are celebrating the steel cutting ceremony of the third Quantum class ship, Ovation of the Seas.

Quantum of the Seas Liveblog

Hey everyone, Just a quick note. If you haven’t already, make sure to check out out Quantum of the Seas live blog. The link is right below the top menu. Also can be accessed here.  As with out other new…

Royal Caribbean Reports Q2 2014 Earnings

via Royal Caribbean: Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE, OSE: RCL) today reported second quarter results, updated full year guidance and introduced its Double-Double Program, a new three-year profitability initiative. KEY HIGHLIGHTS Second Quarter 2014 results: Net Yields were up 2.6% on a…

Newbuilding Rumors for NCL and Royal Caribbean

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I am hearing severla rumors that NCL is looking at building a ship around the 200,000gt mark. That puts it at just slightly smaller than the current largest Oasis and Allure of the Seas which come in at 225,000gt. The…

Quantum of the Seas Inaugural Blog

This is an archived post that originally appeared on CruiseInd on Jun 11, 2014 @ 19:58 This Live Blog Has Closed November 19: If you’re interested in the interiors of Quantum, check out this post. ———- In other news, during…

Fire Damages Partially Completed Ship at Meyer Werft

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UPDATE VI: CruiseCritic is reporting that it was the Quantum of the Seas that it was on. This seems to be the final word on the matter. There latest story is here. UPDATE V: …And it was pulled again. CruiseBusiness is reporting…

Quantum of the Seas AND Anthem of the Sea Floated Out

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Royal Caribbean’s newest ship, Quantum of the Seas, is getting ready for her debut this fall. In preparation for the Emms River transit from the Meyer Weft shipyard in Germany to the final fitting out berth in Bremerhaven, both the…

What Will Lines Do With Their 20+ Year Old Ships?

In a great article at Travel Weekly, Tom Stieghorst ponders what lines will be doing with their older tonnage. I’ve often wondered what carnival will be doing with the Fantasy class. The first ship, Carnival Fantasy, first started sailing in 1990…