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Greece is known by many as the birthplace of Mediterranean cruising and today the Piraeus-originating cruise business is a shadow of what it could have been. This is due to the antiquated laws excluding which required that all cruise ships operating from Greece be of Greek registry.
However all is about to change as the Greek parliament finally removed this inhibiting restriction.
The naming ceremony for Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth will occur on 11th October 2010 at Southampton by her majesty.
Peter Shanks, president and managing director of Cunard said
The naming of a Cunard Queen is a very special occasion and this will be an historic event in the true sense of the word. We are both honoured and proud that Her Majesty will name our new liner.
Previously a naval dockyard for over 150 years, Portland Harbour is now a thriving and successful commercial facility on the south coast of England and boasts five times the number of cruise visitors in 2010 compared with 2009.
Oceania cruises will introduce prices in pounds sterling in their next brochure due out in September this year, for bookings from the start of 2011. The benefits to the UK customer are that the prices will be be more static and not depend on fluctuating conversion rates from their dollar original.
There seems to be a growing trend amongst the large cruise companies to provide pubs. Carnival is following NCL & Cunard in adding a pub to one of it’s ships. The RedFrog Pub onboard Carnival Magic will serve a number of tasty Caribbean beers.
Queen Elizabeth
The ship will feature various English’ for international clientele such as an outpost of Fortnum & Mason, the quintessential English store found at the heart of London’s Piccadilly stocking preserves, biscuits and other gifts. There will alsob be men’s designer clothing by Hackett of London and hand-woven Scottish woollen products from Harris Tweed.
Celebrity Cruises is bringing the iPad on board its three Solstice-class ships Celebrity Solstice, Celebrity Eclipse and Celebrity Equinox to give passengers an in-depth look at its 14,000 works of original, contemporary art.
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Royal Caribbean has revealed a 63% increase in bookings from the Middle East for the first half of 2010 compared with last year. Most popular destinations for Middle East travellers were Mediterranean and Caribbean with cruises of 9 nights.
Royal Caribbean
The construction of Sea Cloud Hussar is suspended as the Spanish shipyard Factoria de Naval Marin files for bankruptcy. Read the rest of this entry »
Cuba could become a Caribbean destination for the various American Cruise lines in the future.