Ft Lauderdale gets Independence 2007-12-04 10:15:37 Royal Caribbean's Independence
of the Seas, due in service in spring 2008 and currently under construction at Aker Yards in Turku, Finland will, according to a Royal Caribbean statement, reposition to Ft. Lauderdale
for Caribbean voyages, becoming the largest ship ever to call the Florida port home.
Her repositioning cruise will be a 13 night transatlantic crossing departing November 6, 2008. Her itinerary will then be a rotating series of six-night Western Caribbean and eight-night Eastern Caribbean cruises from Ft. Lauderdale throughout the winter of 2008 and spring of 2009.
At 154,407-ton, and able to carry some 3,634-passengers, the Independence of the Seas joins her sister ships, Freedom of the Seas and Liberty of the Seas as the largest cruise ships in the world.
Royal Caribbean introduce Fuel Supplements 2007-11-16 18:53:00 Royal Caribbean
have introduced Fuel Supplements as a result of rising fuel costs. The supplement will be $5 per person, per day, applicable for the first two guests in a stateroom, and will not exceed $70 per person, per sailing. The surcharge is effective on all new or existing North American bookings on all Royal Caribbean, Celebrity or Azamara ships that sail after February 1, 2008.
Guests who have already paid for their cruise in full are not be required to pay the fee. Read more:Royal
Independence of the Seas gets hot! 2007-11-15 18:37:00 Royal Caribbean has announced that Independence
of the Seas will have heated outdoor pools, a first for the cruise line. This is as a result of concerns for the UK climate; she is due to cruise for 6 months of the year out of Southampton. P&O are the only other cruise line that offers a full season of ex UK cruising with heated outdoor pools.
Island Cruises Press Release 29 September 2007 2007-10-02 13:27:00 Island Cruises regrets to announce the cancellation of its Island Star cruise from Palma, Majorca, on Saturday, September
29. This is due to essential repairs which have to be carried out on the vessel's engines. 1489 passengers are affected.
Island Star was forced to cut short its September 22 cruise because of related mechanical failure and the company does not wish to risk inconveniencing and disappointing passengers on the September 29 cruise. It is now being taken to a nearby port for further repairs.
Patrick Ryan, managing director of Island Cruises, said: "we deeply regret needing to take this decision but the safety and comfort of our passengers must always come first. We will be offering our passengers a 100 per cent cash refund and a 25 per cent future cruise discount certifi Read more:Press
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Island Cruises Press Release 27 September 2007 2007-10-02 13:26:00 Island Cruises confirms that one of its ships, the Island Star, suffered a power outage on Tuesday evening, September
25, while on a week's Mediterranean cruise.
The cruiseliner, with 1,476 passengers on board, docked at Villefranche, near Nice on the French Riviera, where every effort was made to resolve the problem. Unfortunately, this proved not to be possible and the decision was taken to fly cruise passengers home on Thursday 27 September.
Island Cruises' managing director, Patrick Ryan, flew to Nice to meet with passengers personally. He said: "Island Cruises apologises for the disappointment this has caused passengers and offers its assurance that everything possible was done to get Island Star's voyage underway again before this difficult but unavoidable decision was taken".
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Royal Caribbeans' Island Cruises Update 2007-09-30 01:18:38 Island Cruises, jointly owned by both Royal
Caribbean and First Choice holidays have cancelled the next cruise of Island Star after a catastrophic power failure caused by was has been reported as an explosion but probably more like a generator failure.
A source told us that the they were watching a show in the Theatre at about 8pm when there was a loud "Bang" followed by the power failing. Further sources quoted that the ship was not running under any form of power, though this has yet to be substantiated. Eventually the ship was able to limp into Villefrance were engineers were able to join the ship about 4pm. At about 7pm the engineers tried to re-instate the power which lasted but 2 minutes. Soon afterwards the Captain announced that the Cruise was being cancelled and that all the pass Read more:Island
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Island Star Cancels Cruise! 2007-09-28 14:16:04 Rumours are afloat (sorry about the pun) that the IslandCruise
s has canceled a cruise on the Island Star, part way through the week apparently caused by some form of explosion (not suspicious) ! Though not yet confirmed, this will be a big blow (sorry pun) to the cruise line as Island Cruises only has two ships, the Island Star and the Island Escape. Apparently the ship limped into Villefranche in France and the guests where not told till later that day of the cancellation.
Island Cruises operate out of Palma in the summer, with the both the Island Cruises and Island Escape cruising from Brazil in the winter. The Island Star however will sail in the Caribbean for the first time (as Island Star) during the winter of 2008.
Island Cruises was is jointly owned by both Royal Caribbean and Fi
Royal Caribbean Cruise announce they have joined up with Cruise VIP 2008-03-28 01:43:33 Royal CaribbeanCruise
are pleased to announce they have joined up with Cruise Holidays specialists Cruise VIP and will soon only promote them from within this website. Cruises are a growing industry and Cruise VIP are a new fresh company with a growing reputation. Read more:Royal
Royal Caribbean Website Updated 2008-05-30 01:36:28 We hope you like the re-design of this RoyalCaribbean
site, we have added cruise search boxes for the members of the UK readers to search for cruises via Cruise VIP. We have left two US affiliate sites for readers from over the pond!
Updated Cruise Search and Cruise Holidays on Cruisegle 2008-06-01 14:12:40 Cruisegle the Cruise Search
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website has been updated to enable both searches for cruises from the UK and the US. We are pleased to still have a link on their site and feel it is a growing cruise resource and more updates are expected over the next few days. Read more:Cruise
Drabdesign Buy Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas 2008-06-01 13:12:23 As part of the Cruises network, Drabdesign has purchased two new domain names, Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas, the names given to the two new Royal Caribbean cruise ships due in service in 2009 and 2010 respectively.
These domains are currently parked with the cheap hosting company Hostasitehere, where they were purchased at a cost of £3.54, which is pretty good value for dot Com's. T
Royal Caribbean For Sale 2008-06-05 11:41:13 The owners of this website have stated on their blog at Drabdesign that this site is up for sale. I wonder how many people will think that it is actually RoyalCaribbean
For Sale?
Anyway the site is currently in position 2 on Google.co.uk, above Royal Caribbeans (real) UK based website. So it must be worth a fair bit, especially as it received over 2,000 unique UK visitors alone last month and t
We have joined up with Cruise VIP 2008-03-28 01:43:33 We are pleased to announce we have joined up with Cruise
Holidays specialists Cruise VIP and will soon only promote them from within this website. Cruises are a growing industry and Cruise VIP are a new fresh company with a growing reputation.
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