Royal Caribbean – Serenade Winter 2012-13 Dubai Season
Royal Caribbean (RCI) has declared that the Serenade of the Seas will be deployed for the 2012 – 13 winter season to Dubai. The cruise ship will be offering travelers seventeen sailings that will depart on 7 N itineraries every Monday to Oman and the United Arab Emirates.
The Brilliance of the Seas will be replaced by Serenade of the seas. The ship will offer the cruise tourists in the regional wholly different experience, and passengers can be offered a detailed exploration of the 2 nations in the Middle East. It is also possible to opt for a RCI cruise tour to explore as well as experience some more attractions inland.
The Serenade of the Seas has bookings open already for the Dubai cruises as well as cruise tours for winter season 2012 – 13.
For fans of cruise tours, they can opt [...]
Princess Introduces Roll Call on Facebook
Princess s has come up with a new section on the Facebook fan page of the cruise line known as the Roll Call. This is a special feature that will Cruiseenable each passenger on all sailings to connect with other passengers on the same cruise before and after the duration of the cruise.
The platform allows cruisers on Facebook an opportunity to get to know fellow passengers, share tips and advice, organize meet ups and generally share the excitement leading upto the cruise as well as the memories collected in the aftermath.
Jan Swartz, executive vice president of Princess Cruises, said that the Roll Call section was a feature that was requested widely by users, and that it works in tune with the social experience that cruising has always been.
The Princess Cruises Roll Call is categorized according [...]
Seabourn Quest Makes Inaugural Call at Marmaris, Turkey
Seabourn Quest, following the christening ceremonies, made its first port visit at Marmaris in Turkey. The ship started its maiden voyage from Barcelona a few days ago.
Seabourn Quest had four hundred and ten passengers as well as three hundred and forty four crew members on board, when it arrived at the Marmaris Cruise Port in the wee hours of the morning on Thurs, 30th June.
A welcoming ceremony was organized for the occasion of the maiden voyage as well as the inaugural call at Marmaris by Seabourn Quest. The new luxury ship was welcomed according to Turkish traditions of hospitality with red roses and folk dancers.
The passengers enjoyed the song, dance and other festivities and kept on taking photos. There were evil eye beads and gifts with views of Marmaris such as bookmarks, magnets, [...]
MSC Cruises Heads to Arabia
MSC Cruises has started offering itineraries to exotic locations in Arabia. The line is offering a hefty discount of fifty per cent off for one person per stateroom for winter sailings on a seven night cruise from 31 st July 2011.
MSC has rates beginning from $ 649 for one person, and $ 324.50 for another, in addition to GFT’s (government fees and taxes). If you have a kid aged seventeen and lower, they can sail for as less as $ 99.
MSC Lirica will be sailing on the seven night cruises to such intriguing locations along the Arabian Sea as Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The sailing will also be calling at Oman at the Al Fujairah, Muscat. You will come across such sights as the Great Pyramids of Giza or desert drives over sand dunes.
The seven night Arabian Adventure will sail round trip from Dubai [...]
P&O Cruises Replaces Tripoli in Winter Itineraries
As Libya is undergoing a period of civil unrest, P & O Cruises have replaced Tripoli as a port of call on all three scheduled itineraries. Adonia, part of the P & O fleet, has replaced a 20th Dec 2011 call to Tripoli with La Goulette on 31 s t Dec 2011 as a port of call.
The call dates for Malta, Ashdod and Haifa has been changed so that the change can be accommodated. The complete itinerary, along with changes, has been given below . . .
Cruise no D 1 1 5 will depart on 20 t h Dec, and will call in Naples, Salerno, La Goulette, Malta, Alexandria, Port Said, Haifa, Ashdod, Limassol and Pireaus, in the reverse order.
Prices will begin at £ 2, 239 per person on occupancy of two in an ocean view cabin, along with air fare.
In addition, a 11 t h Jan 2012 call to Tripoli as part of the [...]
Aruba Sees 32 pc Rise in Cruise Visitors in 2011
Aruba Ports Authority has stated that in the months of Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr and May, more than forty thousand additional cruise visitors have visited the island of Aruba. This is an increase by thirty two percent, as compared to the number of passengers in the year 2010.
This augment also features the 101, 363 (one hundred one thousand three hundred sixty three) passengers in the month of March. This is a simply record breaking figure.
In the first five months, from Jan to May, the calls made by cruise ships to Aruba have risen by twenty per cent. The port had 203 (two hundred and three) calls in total. This was an increase from 183(one hundred eighty three) in 2010.
Until May this year, the total number of cruise visitors that have set foot in Aruba is 368,860 (three hundred and sixty eight [...]
Liverpool will lose Fred Olsen’s Business
Even though the spanking new Pier Head cruise terminal has been set up at the city center water front at the Port of Liverpool, Fred Olsen Cruises will be pulling out from the port. The cruise line was one of the most valued customers for the Port of Liverpool, and it is set to lose the business. This is despite having set up the 19 million cruise terminal, which was inaugurated in 2009.
The Liverpool Port suffered the setback due to the brand new terminal being out of bounds for ship turnaround calls. Turnaround calls mean the embarking as well as disembarking commuters and supplies at the start and beginning of the voyage. This is not allowed at the Pier head Cruise terminal. The terminal can only be used for day visits by ships, and not for turnarounds.
This state of affairs is due to Southampton, [...]
MSC returns to La Goulette, Tunis
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 [...]
MSC Cruises Launches In Ship MSC Aurea Spa Suites
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 [...]
P&O Cruises Announces New Ship coming in 2015
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 [...]
