A new cruise terminal opened in Northern Ireland’s Belfast Harbour Monday following a more than $612,000 upgrade. The dedicated facility marks the first of its kind on the Emerald Isle. Featuring spaces for coaches, shuttle buses and taxis as well …
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Norwegian Cruise Line is relaunching its affinity group sales program, offering travel advisors discounts of up to 15% on prevailing rates depending on how far in advance the booking is made. Camille Olivere, the cruise line’s senior …
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Nearly 800,000 U.S. visitors travel each year to Australia, among them travelers arriving on a South Pacific cruise or embarking an oceangoing cruise ship at such ports as Sydney or Melbourne. So, what’s new for Australian cruising? With 25 percent more summer 2020-2021 capacity …
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The parents of Chloe Wiegand are suing Royal Caribbean after their 18-month-old toddler fell 11 stories from the ship’s open window. USA TODAY
Event producer AMFAMFAMF, a LiveStyle company, has just announced a line-up of stellar musical programming for the second annual edition FriendShip Music Cruise, which will sail aboard Royal Caribbean’s Navigator of the Seas from Monday, January 6 through Friday, January …
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Victoria’s cruise ship industry will add a new wrinkle next season as — for the first time in decades — passengers will be able to begin and end regularly scheduled trips at Ogden Point. In what will be its second …
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By Candyce H. Stapen Our after-dinner stroll on Holland America Line’s Nieuw Statendam landed us in the middle of a lively indoor street bash. Outside the Rolling Stone Rock Room several couples boogied to “A Hard Day’s Night,” others clapped …
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Cruising isn’t one size fits all. Increasingly, the products attract their own audiences and repeaters. That’s created an arena for new products. Virgin Voyages will take to the water early next year with the 2,770-passenger Scarlet Lady. Whatever people think …
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FROM hidden on-board morgues to jail cells for rowdy passengers, luxury cruise liners are brimming with secrets. And that’s before we’ve even got started on the code words staff use when they want to hide things from passengers… suffice to …
“The 1991 sinking of the cruise ship Oceanos was anything but ideal,” explained Herring. “A leak in the engine room caused the ship to lose power, and the water continued to rise until it became unstoppable. “Once the crew released …