Cruisers Missing Ships Due to Bad Weather
We are getting reports of cruise passengers missing their ships due to nationwide weather delays. Please keep in mind that flights with stopovers in cities like Chicago, where bad weather often causes delays, can mean you arrive at your destination hours later than anticipated.
Even though a Holland America ship [...]

This has been a big news week for the Cruise Industry. Oasis is arriving early, F3 is back on and Carnival reported earnings that beat expectations.
Oasis of the Seas Arriving Early!
Oasis of the Seas, the next “Largest Cruise Ship In the World” will be arriving almost two weeks earlier than expected. The first cruise will [...]

Princess Captain’s Circle Introduces Faster Benefits Options
The Princess Captain’s Circle has introduced new ways to allow passengers to more quickly reach the program’s higher Platinum and Elite membership levels. The loyalty program will now count “cruise credits” instead of number of sailings, and passengers who travel in full suites and those who pay a single [...]

Silversea Cruises has just put the finishing touches on a multimillion-dollar renovation of Silver Wind, involving virtually every aspect of the ultra-luxury ship.
Undertaken over the past month during a dry dock at the San Giorgio shipyard in Genoa, Italy, the comprehensive refurbishment of Silver Wind features a new décor the line describes as a “sophisticated [...]

MSC Cruises received its flagship MSC Fantasia today at a hand-over ceremony at the STX France shipyard in St Nazaire, France. The official handover of the flagship from the shipyard to MSC Cruises saw the lowering of the French flag and the flag of STX France, and the raising of the MSC Cruises flag, along [...]

Last week, all of the cruise lines effectively eliminated the fuel surcharges immediately. They are now offering onboard credits for people who paid surcharges for cruises sailing in the near future. These fuel surcharges could come back if the price of oil goes up again, but right now it does not appear likely that will [...]

Think Floyd USA, the number one touring production of Pink Floyd in the country, will perform upon the first Pink Floyd themed cruise aboard a Carnival Cruise Ship to the Bahamas. Dubbed “Great Gig in the Sea”, the cruise will allow Pink Floyd music fans to combine sun and sea with an amazing concert experience.
The [...]

Respected German cruise line, Hapag-Lloyd, is planning to disembark its passengers currently sailing a world cruise on its MS Columbus cruise ship and put them all on a charter flight from a port stop in Yemen (Hodeidah) to Dubai.
The ship will then sail - without passengers - through the “danger zone” where several pirate attacks [...]

Royal Caribbean, Celebrity Cruises and Azamara Cruises End Fuel Supplement Charges
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. today announced the suspension of its fuel supplement for Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises and Azamara Cruises sailings that depart on or after January 1, 2009, anywhere in the world.
The decision reflects the recently sustained lower price of fuel. Effective Monday, [...]

The QE2, short for Cunard Line’s Queen Elizabeth 2, has arrived in her final destination where she will be permanently moored and repurposed as a floating hotel. The grand ocean liner, built in 1969 and which crossed the Atlantic over 800 times and sailed around the world 25 times, was purchased by the Emirate for [...]