Cruising is a booming market, which has weathered the recession and the stream of new ships very well. As the industry grows worries will develop about the islands and destinations the ship visit, and if they are being overwhelmed by a huge influx sometimes significantly bigger than the local population. According to Wikipedia; Sustainable tourism… Read More Sustainable Tourism & Cruising
We have touched on the topic of ‘Green’ Cruising in our article on EOSEAS, the concept environmentally friendly cruise ship. See that article here (opens in a new window) However when we did that article we were unaware that Viking River Cruises, seen here, actually operate two hybrid Diesel Electric river cruise vessels. These ships,… Read More Green Cruising.
The Magic Kingdom is having a great season on the high seas, with Disney Cruise Line posting excellent occupancy rates. The Orlando Sentinel has said that the new Disney Dream has been very popular with consumers showing an average occupancy of around 150%. Occupancy is worked out on lower berths, so once children are added to a… Read More Want to cruise with Mickey? Dream on.
Recently we have been mesmerised by the story of some ships which spend a large part of their life laid up and empty, so we are going to have a look at two ships, the United States and SS Aquarama which have interesting stories to tell. SS United States America’s flag-ship is by far the most well-known ‘Empty… Read More Empty Ships: Aquarama & SS United States
A life at sea is something which has tempted many a sailor in to the maritime industry, now there are several plans to launch floating communities. As every other blog is full or NCL’s stock market listing and Royal Caribbean’s ‘Royal Advantage’ refurbishment program (which we covered here), we thought we would do something different!… Read More A Life on the Ocean Waves
We’re going to be doing a series of blogs titled ‘The Rise and Fall of : …’. These will investigate the business decisions and influences that caused some cruise businesses to end services. Our intentions are to run an article on each of the on the following: Regency Cruises, First European/Festival Cruises & Royal Olympic Cruises and of… Read More The Rise and Fall of : Regency Cruises
As the Global Economy has stalled, cruise line have worked hard to keep vessels full, and weather the storm. Carnival axed its dividend…Royal Caribbean …er… got the Worlds two largest cruise ships drastically increasing capacity… okay, bad example. (We have a blog for that) But as the growth of the industry has created a market… Read More Out with the old and….In with the refurbished?
Well its obvious, isn’t it? No Airplane, no flights, no airports. Now we are fans of avoiding the Airport, The queues, the shops, the gates, the lighting, na… We would rather not go to the Airport. This appears however to be the view of an increasing amount of cruisers, while this has been popular in the States… Read More What is so great about No-Fly Cruising?
Royal Caribbean is planning new ships, slightly larger than the Freedom class, but smaller than the Oasis class. Royal Caribbean is like Apple, and is amazing at keeping ship under wraps. So we have to guess, and this is what we think will happen. Now if we were Royal Caribbean we would be building this new… Read More Our Project Sunshine
Aside from the disastrously boring title of this post, and the fact instead of ‘three a week/two if slow’ policy on blogs I have been busy (and hurt my finger) so this week is a pretty bad week. I do hope this interests you however. I think River Cruising is going to be huge, I… Read More River Cruising
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