Princess Cruises is an American-British owned cruise line situated in Santa Clarita, California in United States renowned for its excellence. Families are welcome aboard most princess cruise lines and you will find plenty of entertainment and fun for everyone. Originally a subsidiary of P&O Princess Cruises PLC, it is now one of the ten cruise line companies controlled by Carnival Corporation and PLC and records around 19 percent share of its revenue. Being situated in United States, executive control of Princess Cruises was transferred to American division of Carnival Corporation following merger between P&O Princess and Carnival in the year 2002. Carnival UK is responsible for marketing and sales of Princess Cruises in United Kingdom. It was made popular by The Love Beat TV series,  [...] 

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Premier Cruise Line is a subsidiary company of Premier Cruises and was the cruise line located in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was at one time licensed as official cruise line of Walt Disney World. Premier Cruises was basically a cruise holding firm found in the year 1990, which focused mainly on family cruise market along with developing cruise operations in new geographic markets. The main business focus of the company was to obtain older cruise vessels and revamp these vessels in order for offering conventional cruise experiences, operate the ships in geographic locations like Europe and Central/South America were the main operators like Carnival Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean International and Norwegian Cruise Line. Premier Cruise Line was originally founded by two cruise veterans in the  [...] 

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MSC Cruises gave the news that cruises offered by the company will be reinstating La Goulette at the Tunis Port in Tunisia as a port of call on their regular itineraries, beginning from July. Major cruise lines had stopped calling at Tunis since there were a few internal security issues. As the country has now returned to normalcy and the security levels become stable, MSC will be offering the port of La Gaulette as part of the itinerary for the seven night Mediterranean cruises. MSC Cruises CEO, Pierfrancesco Vago stated that tourism is one of the most important resources for the economic revival of Tunisia, and that they were proud of being able to support this. MSC Lirica and MSC Fantasia is scheduled to come back to La Goulette on 5 t h of Jul, with MSC Sinfonia and MSC Splendida coming  [...] 

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This fall, MSC Cruises are reaching out to spa lovers all over the world by introducing the new MSC Aurea Spa Suites. This category of suites will have their debut on the MSC Fantasia and the MSC Splendida. The category will have a range of similarities with the MSC Yacht Club accommodations. MSC Aurea Spa Suites will make their entrance for the first time in the MSC Fantasia on a 11 night round trip cruise that departs from Genova on 5 t h November and calls at Portugal, Morocco, Spain and Italy. On MS Splendida, they will debut on the 11 night 13 t h cruise from Genoa that calls in Turkey, Greece and Italy. The elegant retreat close to the MSC Aurea Spa as well as an assortment of spa facilities are provided to the guests booking the MSC Aurea Spa Suite as part of the cruise fare. There  [...] 

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P&O Cruises announced a considerable expansion of its fleet last week by the addition of a cruise ship weighing 141, 000 GRT. The ship will be built by Fincantieri ship yards in Italy. The new ship will be part of the service only by March 2015 at the earliest. The ship is as yet unnamed and has a capacity of three thousand six hundred and eleven passengers. The ship will be the largest in size among the fleet of P&O Cruises. The ship is the largest cruise ship that is built aiming at the British Market specifically. The ship will be built at the Monfalcone yard of Fincantieri and will have an all in cost of about € 155,000 per lower berth. The ship will usher in an era of excitement for P&O cruises, and will feature an innovative and stylish design. The passenger facilities will  [...] 

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The newest ship part of the fleet of P & O Cruises, the Adonia, was named by Dame Shirley Bassey, singing legend, in Southampton, UK. The Adonia has a capacity of 710 passengers. The ship, formerly part of Princess Cruises and named Royal Princess was rechristened as Adonia part of P & O cruises. The ship underwent an over haul for three weeks at the Grand Bahama Shipyard, where a number of additions and refurbishments were made to fit in with the rest of the fleet at P& O. The theme for the christening ceremony, which was headed by Dame Shirley Bassey, a legend vocalist, was diamonds. The diamonds theme was placed in honor of the song “Diamonds are Forever”, which is one of the greatest hits sung by the diva. Adonia is now the smallest ship part of the P & O cruises fleet.  [...] 

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Holland America Line has announced that it will be deploying the cruise ship Rotterdam leaving from Europe on a number of extended itineraries that will start from Rotterdam in the Netherlands. This will be with effect from Sept 2012. Rotterdam was chosen as a homeport as the HAL has a deep connection with the city and also because of its convenient situation in North west Europe. The Itineraries that are launched till spring 2013 will include two extended trips that will set sail for thirty four and ninety days and a number of regional sailings from 14 to 18 days. After concluding the European summer season that was previously announced, the Rotterdam will set sail on 15th Sept, 2012 for the fourteen day Portugal and Spain Explorer Cruise which will take the Strait of Gibraltar to Barcelona  [...] 

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The list of cruise ships that have pulled out of the So Cal (Southern California) Market has another addition, and this time it is Holland America Line (HAL). The So Cal region is suffering under a depression of sorts with respect to the cruise ship market. A number of big cruise lines have deployed ships in the region on other destinations. The Holland America Line’s cruise ship Oosterdam, which was sailing on regular cruises on the ex San Diego Mexican Riviera region from Oct to Apr, has been announced to be redeployed to Australia in Oct 2012. However, Holland America Line has not declared all the deployments it plans to make beyond fall 2012 and it also has not commented whether Oosterdam would be replaced by a ship on the Mexican Route. According to the statement made by Holland America  [...] 

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‘Voyages to Antiquity’ Cruise Line was set up in 2010 by Gerry Herrod, famous cruise entrepreneur. Herrod is famous for heading such lines as Discovery Cruises, Orient Lines and Ocean Cruise Line. Voyages to Antiquity have passengers from countries such as United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia as their targeted passenger base. There is only one ship part of the fleet at Voyages to Antiquity. The cruise line entered the market with a number of cruises on the Mediterranean on the Aegean Odyssey, which was formerly named as Aegean I. Gerry Herrod is said to have been inspired to set up the concept for Voyages to Antiquity when he read the “Middle Sea” by Lord John Julius Norwich, who described the ancient civilizations of the central and eastern Mediterranean region. There  [...] 

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Grand Princess was on a hiatus that was the most extensive dry dock ever in the history of Princess Cruises. The passengers set sail in the ship Fri 6th May, 2011. The dry dock transformed Grand Princess totally in the duration of the dry dock. The extensive revamp made it one of the  most talked about ships in the media lately and the daily updates on video regarding the remodeling procedures carried out daily, attracted close to half million views. The Grand Princess Dry dock journal had posted twenty six videos as well as the three hundred photographs in total of the daily progress of the revamping procedure. The progress was watched by hundreds of thousands of fans while the ship was docked in Bahamas. The Skywalkers nightclub on the stern of the ship was removed, and the atrium of the  [...] 

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