Swan Hellenic has announced a return to river cruising with a new program for 2009 in partnership with the German river cruise line A-ROSA. It will offer six 10-night cruises on the Danube aboard the 200-berth, 2004-built A-ROSA Riva in May, September and October 2009 and four 7-night cruises on the Rhone and Saone in [...]
Entries from January 2008
Monday, 28 January 2008
Fred. Olsen Cancels Balmoral Inagural
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has cancelled the 30 January inaugural voyage of Balmoral.
The former Crown Odyssey/Norwegian Crown has just completed a lengthening and major refit at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, which increased the 1988-built vessel from 1,052 to 1,340 berths and from 34,242 GT to about 43,000.
The company already cancelled inaugural activities for the [...]
Thursday, 24 January 2008
Quail Cruises Unveils 2008 Program
Spain’s newest cruise line, Quail Cruises, has unveiled its 2008 program.
The company will charter the 1971-built, 20,186 GT, 640-berth Pacific (ex-Pacific Princess/Sea Venture) from her owner, Brazilian tour operator CVC, from April to October 2008. Pacific will operate 7-night Western Mediterranean cruises from Valencia, as she did in 2007 for Pullmantur Cruises. Pullmantur is [...]