Costa Cruises has launched a remodeled portal for travel agents: Costa Extra (www.CostaExtra.com). The site, solely for U.S.-, Canada– and Caribbean-based travel advisors, provides essential information, courses and marketing materials to help agents become proficient in Costa Cruises. The interface …
With Havana’s harbor closed to U.S. traffic, cruise lines have been tearing up their 2020 schedules and reworking them to make new use of smaller ships they had tapped to fit Havana’s diminutive piers. Ships such as Royal Caribbean’s Empress …
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WHY IT RATES: Cruise line partners with Andy Grammer, Family Affair Productions and Warner Chappell Music to curate the brand’s first-ever global music library. – Mackenzie Cullen, Editorial Associate RELATED OFFERS Slip Away for a Night or Two at Sea …
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Street protests aren’t the last thing Puerto Rico needs. That would be another hurricane. But the island stands to lose millions of dollars from lost cruise calls, on top of its other woes, as cruise lines shy away from docking …
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Barb Kaufman It is hot now, but soon the snow will fly. Taking a vacation when there is three feet of snow on the ground is the best defense against a cold winter. This month I want to talk about …
CLOSE Police say 1-year-old Chloe Wiegand of Northern Indiana fell to her death from the 11th story of a cruise ship docked in San Juan, Puerto Rico. But there are conflicting accounts of how that happened. Dwight Adams, dwight.adams@indystar.com The …
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A ban on the popular nighttime illumination cruises past Budapest’s brightly lit Parliament building has been lifted. But not all river lines are rushing to resume the sailings. The government ban was implemented after a deadly collision on an illumination …
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Lying south west of Spain in the Atlantic Ocean, the archipelago is made up of seven main islands: take a bow Tenerife, Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro. Those most frequently included on cruise itineraries …
“However, TUI cruise lines include all tips and service charges in the total cost of the cruise, with additional tipping left up to the guests’ discretion.” Meanwhile Express.co.uk recently reported how cruise ship firms often have generous luggage limitations – …
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Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line recently hosted its largest-ever Seminar at Sea for more than 200 North America-based travel agents aboard the Grand Classica. The two-day seminar featured presentations given by the cruise line’s leadership team, a series of networking opportunities, …
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