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
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
CruiseOctopus.com 