Archive for December, 2007

Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) Freestyle 2.0 Is Better

Citing feedback from both past guests and travel agents, NCL recently announced its Freestyle 2.0 fleet wide initiative featuring significant enhancements in its onboard experience further improving the guest satisfaction level. With the pending completion of the financial agreement for $1 billion with Apollo Management, LP (“Apollo”) nearing completion, the enhancements include a major [...]

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Hurtigruten Offers Many Holiday Specials For Norwegian Coastal Voyages

Hurtigruten Cruises, formerly Norwegian Coastal Voyages, has a wealth of specials to assist you in experiencing nature up close and personal from a cruise perspective. Having witnessed first hand the onboard environment of Hurtigruten, I can highly recommend it to adventure cruisers. I personally spoke with one of their onboard guides for Antarctica, [...]

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Azamara Cruises Offers Onboard Credits

If you weren’t motivated by getting a butler with your stateroom on an Azamara Cruise, they have sweetened the pot even further. The newest player in the deluxe cruise market launched the “Azamara Cruises European Premiere Event,” a promotion that offers onboard credit to guests in North America who book European voyages with the [...]

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Queen Mary 2 Best Luxury Cruise Ship

Queen Mary 2 has just been named the world’s “Best Luxury Cruise Ship” by the editors of Travel Weekly, the national newspaper of the travel industry, at its fifth annual Readers Choice Awards black-tie gala at the Pierre Hotel in New York. The award represents a synopsis of some 40,000 reader’s opinions about [...]

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Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) Christens Norwegian Gem in New York

The “It Girl” Godmother has finally arrived in the form of Cindy Cardella of Fairfield, NJ, who came out the winner among five finalists chosen by an online poll conducted by Norwegian Cruise Line. The ship’s Christening ceremony was held yesterday in New York. Cindy’s online video showcased how she best fit the [...]

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Princess Donates $10,000 to Alaska Natural History Association

Princess Cruises and Tours has donated $10,000 towards the Alaska Natural History Association’s continued work in developing educational programs for the state’s National Parks and other public lands. Princess Cruises, long an industry leader in Alaska cruise travel, fills the need to maintain the pristine wilderness which comprises our largest state. Educational [...]

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2007 World Travel Awards Vote Princess Best Cruise Line Website

A key member of the world’s leading cruise lines has been awarded the best cruise website for 2007 by the World Travel Awards. Princess.com won the award as the “World’s Leading Cruise Website” at the 14th Annual World Travel Awards. More than 167,000 travel agents and industry professionals in more than 160 [...]

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