French Country Waterways is featuring $250 price savings during its April departures. For those who are celebrating quinquennial wedding anniversaries (which take place every fifth year), the company is offering discounts that equal the number of years – 5 percent for the fifth anniversary, 15 percent for the 15th year all the way up to 50 percent for the golden anniversary.

Carnival Corp & PLC, which recently announced the sale of the 1984 built Artemis, received $100 million for the 44,588 gross ton ship, the world’s largest cruise shipping group says in its 2009 annual report. Carnival booked a $45 million profit from the sale.

Royal Caribbean International’s Oasis of the Seas is a “gratifying success,’ but parent company Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. probably won’t build more of the 225,000-ton ships after Allure of the Seas debuts in December. RCCL Chairman and CEO Richard Fain said Oasis is commanding “tremendous premiums’ and “onboard spending handily above other ships.’

Carnival Cruises is once again including Aruba as a destination in their itinerary. Carnival Miracle will make 11 port calls from October 2010 till March 2011. The first port call will be on October 22nd bringing 2124 passengers to the island. The 11 port calls will represent an extra 120 to 140 thousand extra cruise visitors to Aruba.

Avalon Waterways is offering savings on Europe river cruises. Savings are $300 per person on air-inclusive vacations and $150 on cruise-only bookings. The booking must be made and under deposit between Jan. 6 and March 2 for travel through Dec. 31, 2010.

Costa Maya, one of Mexico’s largest cruise ports and emerging destinations, will welcome European cruise lines Pullmantur and TUI Thomson in 2010. The two cruise lines join 12 others set to call Costa Maya this year, continuing the port’s re-emergence as one of the Western Caribbean’s and Mexico’s top ports.