My parents have just booked on Carnival Sunshine, formerly the Carnival Destiny, and when built the worlds largest cruise ship and the first passenger ship to exceed 100,000 GRT. The ship has had a significant refurbishment and will be cruising the Mediterranean.
Along with Carnival Paradise, Costa NeoRomantica, Seabourn Legend amongst others… They have had Balcony Surgery. It’s the latest fad in the cruise industry and cruise lines are jumping head of heels to add Balconies to their fleet.
Since we started blogging We have been covering the takeover of Windstar Cruises by Xanterra Parks & Resorts. Now Windstar has provided pictures of the stunning refurbishment planned for its smaller cruise yachts; Wind Star and Wind Spirit. These amazing cruise yachts are among my favourite cruise ships, with their sleek sails soaring into the sky these amazing… Read More Windstar Gets New Look
2012 is nearly upon us, so what do we have to look forward to in the next year. Well five new cruise ships will be joining the oceans, Norwegian Cruise Line will be listing on the stock market and Costa Romantica will emerge as Costa NeoRomantica, after a daring refurbishment. So heres our guesstimations for the… Read More What Does 2012 Have In Store?
All Leisure Group PLC, the largest British cruise operator, which own Swan Hellenic, Voyages of Discovery and Hebridean Island Cruises has announced a change in its line up. Voyages of Discovery, which operates the former Love Boat ‘Discovery’ is to be joined by former Alexander von Humboldt of Phoenix Reisen. The ship was acquired by auction follow the collapse… Read More Voyager joins Voyages of Discovery
Our last blog, On Where does Princess fit? made me us think about how cruise lines have moved an developed their brand positioning. In Bob Dickinsons ‘Selling The Sea’ [We’ve got a blog for that] it covers how Norwegian Cruise Line has changed it’s brand positioning. From Memory we would say that Norwegian has had the most logos of… Read More Cruise Line Brand Positioning
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
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?
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