Recently I was lucky enough to take a sailing on Celestyal Cruise’s Celestyal Olympia. I booked the Iconic Aegean three nights cruise. This cruise started at Athens, stopping at Mykonos, Kusadasi (Turkey), Patmos, Crete and Santorini.… Read More My Celestyal Olympia Cruise
Here at Crociere.co.uk towers, we are worrying about the Quantum of the Seas, and for that we are worrying about Royal Caribbean.
Royal Caribbean has today announced the purchase of Crystal Cruises from NYK, the purchase will see Royal Caribbean’s current Azamara brand merged into Crystal with Azamara Quest and Azamara Journey being renamed Crystal Quest and Crystal Serenity.
We have previously discussed how there has been a strain of yields in the med (Too Many ships?). So does the Arabian Gulf offer an alternative? Personally I think yes, Dubai has a growing tourist industry, with the worlds largest building, and the Palms to visit, as well as great weather the United Arab Emirates… Read More Growth in the Middle East?
For as long as I can remember Richard Branson has been linked to starting a cruise line, to date this has not yet surfaced, and recently its been even more quiet… The core aspects of the Virgin brand is to create a memorable experience, with flair and fun. Virgin Atlantic succeeds very well in doing… Read More Richard Branson’s Virgin Cruise Dream
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
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
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.
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