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
In Selling the Sea By Bob Dickinson, he describes how cruises are seen as premium products due to the high price. But he also points that this is an artificially high price, as your entertainment, food, and basic beverages are included. That book is now 14 years old, and despite the rapid growth of cruising during… Read More The Problem of Pricing
If you are on Facebook, I suggest you like MSC Cruises, Or follow them on twitter. MSC have been arranging tours onboard the MSC Opera, and they are telling you about them through Facebook & twitter. The ship visit was in Southampton, unfortunately living in Liverpool and not being able to drive, a 5 Hour train journey… Read More MSC Opera Ship Visit
Since our last book review ‘Wind Star : The Building of a Sailship’ went down so well, and was included on the Windstar Blog, I thought I would do another one, This time I am reviewing the First Addition of ‘Selling the Sea’ By Bob Dickinson and Andy Vladimir. My copy of the book has no… Read More Book Review : Selling the Sea
Well the hype of Norwegian Cruise Line’s Project Breakaway appears to have hit a peak today, with CruiseCritic interviewing NCL CEO Kevin Sheehan about what might and might not be carried over from Norwegian Epic. You can find the link at the bottom of this post. To create additional hype NCL was using the twitter hashtag #nclpb to keep… Read More Project Breakaway
The original Royal Princess has re-emerged as Artania for the German Market under operator Phoenix Reisen. The vessel appears to have had a significant makeover with addition balcony cabins being added. The ship was original built by Wartsila in Finland, in 1984. She carries 1,200 passengers. According to ‘P&O PRINCESS: The Cruise Ships by Roger… Read More A re-invented Princess.
On the 3rd March 2009 Royal Caribbean stock was low, in fact very low at $5 a share. This was during the construction of the worlds largest cruise ship, The Oasis of the Seas. Now, Just over two years later the stock price has soared, despite rising fuel costs and instability during the Arab Spring.… Read More The Oasis. The Royal. And The Halo.
In the growth of the Cruise Industry in the past few decades, there has been several attempts at launching a ‘Low Cost’ Cruise Line, non seem to have met any significant success. So I decided to investigate, I have chosen the little known ‘Vacation Liners’ and Stelios’ ‘EasyCruise’. In air travel the opposite is true with… Read More Why hasn’t ‘Low-Cost’ Crusing Taken Off?
This isn’t a new concept, its been around since 2009, but I think it is an interesting one, and one I would like to discuss. The design is by STX Europe and the ship is a five hulled vessel, it’s an environmentally friendly concept which reduces CO2 emissions by 50%. As a cruise ship it… Read More EOSEAS – A concept worth thinking about?
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