Miami-based cruise line, Royal Caribbean International, recently announced that its cruise ship, Anthem of the Seas, will sail from Southampton in the United Kingdom for its 2015 spring launch. The Anthem of the Seas boasts some unconventional attractions for cruise ship passengers. The ship's feature attraction, the North Star, is a mounted glass capsule designed to rise […]
Miami-based cruise liner Royal Caribbean International has announced that because of mechanical issues affecting its ship Allure of the Seas, the liner will be forced to cancel the ship’s upcoming February trips in order to complete the repairs. According to Royal Caribbean International president and chief executive officer Adam Goldstein, the ship will be docked […]
Six-year-old Qwentyn Hunter drowned on Sunday, October 13 in one of the pools on a cruise ship he was riding on with his family. According to officials from Carnival Cruise Lines, the boy had been on a four-day Caribbean cruise with his family and their company’s “CareTeam is [currently] providing assistance and support.” The ship […]
Norwegian Getaway Cruise Line will incorporate fun, Miami-themed features in their next new ship. The cruise line’s new ship will first tour passengers in January of next year. It will feature the Miami Beach-inspired Tropicana Room and the Flamingo Bar & Grill, both of which are free of charge for guests. The restaurants will serve Latin American […]
Japanese-based cruise line Crystal Cruises, a liner which sails two all-inclusive ships, is under new management with the former head of sales and marketing at Miami-based Azamara Club Cruises Edie Bornstein. Poised to assume a higher-profile role on Wednesday, October 16, Bornstein is set to become the president and chief operating officer of the Los […]
To be successful in today’s market cruise line, CEOs underlined the importance of adapting and sometimes taking tips from one another, industry executives said in Thursday, September 19 panel discussion with travel agents at the Hyatt Regency Miami. The heads of Miami-based Royal Caribbean Cruises and Norwegian Cruise Line, and Viking Cruises talked about onboard experiences […]
Celebrity Cruises will be changing a dysfunctional propulsion motor on Celebrity Millennium so that the ship can begin making trips again on September 22. Celebrity Cruises spokeswoman Tavia Robb said both the Millennium’s 2,158-passenger vessel and the 250-ton Rolls Royce Mermaid pod will be retired to the Grand Bahama Shipyard from Rotterdam. Since the electrical issue […]
Princess Cruises, part of Miami-based Carnival Corp., will be headquartering its cruise ship Sapphire Princess in Shanghai, China in May 2014 and will take advantage of the opportunity at the same time to introduce the most recent addition to its line of cruise ships, called the Princess Class. A spokesperson from the Shanghai Municipal Tourism Administrative […]
According to the Miami Herald, the cruise line Celebrity Cruises, which is a division of Royal Caribbean Cruises, cancelled four cruise trips in August and September on the cruise ship Celebrity Millennium due to propulsion errors. The trips scheduled to leave on August 23, August 30, September 6 and September 13 were cancelled in mid-August […]
Until recently, the only information available to the general public concerning cruise ship crime data came from the FBI. Unfortunately, this data only concerned crimes that had been closed, meaning that reported but unsolved crimes were not included. Recently, though, three large cruise ship companies – Norwegian Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean Cruises, and Carnival Corp. […]
