The Carnival Magic is just getting its sea-legs and wrapping up its first few voyages. USA Today’s cruise log says it looks like Carnival Magic is a hit – and we take a look at three reasons why cruising on Magic is different from any other Carnival cruise. 1) RedFrog Pub: Carnival is billing this [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Building a cruise ship is no easy task – from design to production to having hoards of guests filling the staterooms takes years. The Disney Dream and Oceania Cruises’ Marina already debuted earlier this year, but there are four more new ships coming in 2011 and another six in 2012. One notable trend – there [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 3, 2011
Princess Cruises hasn’t sailed from Galveston, TX since 2007, and today they announced they will resume itineraries from the island just outside of Houston in 2012. The 3,070-passenger Crown Princess will start a winter series of seven-night itineraries that sail to Costa Maya, Mexico; Roatan, Honduras; Belize City, Belize; and Cozumel, Mexico. Tossing in the [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 28, 2010
Back in June we asked if the Norwegian Epic entertainment model would go industry wide, and among the newest mega-ships, that seems to be the case. The Tony award winning musical Chicago recently made its seven-seas debut aboard Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas. The question more and more cruise execs are asking themselves is [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Hurricanes have wreaked havoc on cruise ship ports in the last few years. Hurricane Ike demolished Galveston, TX to the tune of 3 Billion dollars in 2008, and New Orleans is still recovering from Katrina in 2005. However, Carnival Cruise Lines is sending the message that these two ports are back on the map, most [...]
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
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