Celebrity Cruises has been unveiling more and more details of the 122,000 GT, 2,850-berth Celebrity Solstice, set to enter service in December 2008. The latest is The Lawn Club, a half-acre (2,130 square meter) ‘country club’ featuring a cruise industry first: real grass!
The Lawn Club will offer bocce ball, croquet, putting, picnics and more. The [...]
Entries from January 2008
Monday, 21 January 2008
Solstice’s Latest Innovation: Grass
Monday, 21 January 2008
Genesis Name That Ship Contest
The Cruise Log and Royal Caribbean have launched a contest to name Royal Caribbean’s two new 220,000 GT, 5,400-berth Genesis-class ships, scheduled to enter service in 2009 and 2010.
Prizes for the winning names and runners-up include free cruises on Independence of the Seas and the Genesis ships.
If you’re a US resident, click here to try [...]
Monday, 21 January 2008
New Club Cruise Subsidiary to Market Van Gogh in UK - Updated
Following the collapse of charterer Travelscope, Club Cruise has announced the formation of a new subsidiary, Van Gogh Cruises, to continue to operate the popular Van Gogh in the UK.
After Travelscope entered administration, Club Cruise, together with the ABTA, was able to take over operation of the ship’s world cruise, which departed Falmouth on 4 [...]
Monday, 21 January 2008
Astoria to Leave Transocean Tours
Transocean Tours has announced that the 18,591 GT, 500-berth Astoria will leave the fleet after her final world cruise for the company concludes in April 2009.
Built in 1981 as Astor and later named Arkona, the ship has been chartered by Transocean since 2002. Originally chartered from Sovcomflot, Astoria was sold to Club Cruise in 2007 [...]
Monday, 21 January 2008
No, This Site Isn’t Dead…
…though I can’t blame you if you thought it was!
It shouldn’t have taken me three weeks to post the first post of 2008, but it did. I planned to blog from QE2, which I enjoyed a week aboard earlier this month, I really did, but I was having too much fun to sit in front [...]
