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And so it begins… Well technically they started shuffling around the vision-class when they sent the Legend and Splendour of the Seas off to TUI cruises. The next in the vision-class to leave the Royal Caribbean International fleet is the…
…Vanuatu. Lelepa is off the coast of Vanuatu which is a chain of islands, 1076 miles ENE of Australia. Royal Caribbean, along with the Vanuatu government, will develop the island into a private cruise destination. The project is still in…
She’ll be named Wonder of the Seas and be based in China. The Wonder of the Seas was all but confirmed to be originally named Melody of the Seas. However today they just announced that she will in fact be…
A look inside the ship that made history with short cruises, European voyages, and Cuba sailings. Royal Caribbean’s Empress of the Seas began her story in the late 1980s under a very different name. Originally conceived by Admiral Cruises as…
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. today reported record second quarter results and updated its full year Adjusted EPS guidance to a range of $9.55 to $9.65 per share versus the company’s latest midpoint guidance of $9.45 per share (including the impact of the Cuban travel restrictions). This is…
Royal Caribbean’s upper-premium brand, Azamara Club Cruises, has re-branded to simply, Azamara. The design philsophy surrounding their new logo is broken into three different parts; “an open world symbol; the two artistic strokes represent both land and sea experiences; the…
The 1989-built 5,218gt luxary expedition vessel, Silver Discoverer has been sold to CroisiEurope. France’s CroisiEurope specialize in river cruises throughout Europe. They currently operate only one other bluewater vessel, the La Belle de l’Adriatique, but that vessel is basically a…
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…
UPDATE Tuesday: Royal Caribbean has announced that as a result of damage to the ship, they are canceling the next three cruises (April 7, 14 & 21 [Transatlantic]). There’s speculation that she suffered damage to one of her Azipods. At…
Royal Caribbean has just announced that they will be purchasing another Oasis-class vessel from french shipbuilder Chantiers de l’Atlantique . The original in the class, her sisters Oasis and Allure of the Seas were delivered from STX Finland. Her newest…