Saga has purchased the 18,591 GT, 500-berth Astoria from Club Cruise, as previously rumored. The ship, on charter to Transocean Tours until April 2009, will be renamed Quest for Adventure and become the second ship in Saga’s Spirit of Adventure brand. She’ll join the 9,570 GT, 352-berth Spirit of Adventure in offering an enrichment-focused product [...]
Rumors are strengthening that Club Cruise’s Astoria, whose charter to Transocean Tours ends in April 2009, has been sold to Saga to become the second ship for its Spirit of Adventure brand. Club Cruise has come on hard times lately recently, having sold the recently-acquired ferry Da Vinci (ex Finnjet) for scrap and been forced [...]
The past week has looked rather grim for Dutch-based operator Club Cruise. First came the news that Van Gogh Cruise Line, the British subsidiary set up to market its 15,240 GT, 727-berth Van Gogh following the bankruptcy of charterer Travelscope, would cease operations. (It had previously cancelled its summer 2008 cruises in favor of a [...]
Van Gogh Cruise Line has cancelled its summer 2008 cruises. According to a report in Seatrade Insider News, the cancellation was caused by the length of the process required for the company to gain membership to the ABTA and its resulting inability to sell the cruises during the past three months.
Instead, the 15,240 GT, 727-berth [...]
Club Cruise subsidiary Van Gogh Cruise Line now has its own web site. As I reported last month, it is marketing the 15,402 GT, 503-berth Van Gogh in the UK following the collapse of charterer Travelscope. Van Gogh, built in 1975 as Gruziya, has been a popular ship in the budget segment of the UK [...]
