Royal Caribbean International plans to deploy a record eight ships in Europe for the 2009 summer and fall seasons.
Victoria Cruises, which operates cruises on China’s Yangtze River, is refurbishing the majority of its fleet for the 2008 season.
Value World Tours, a California tour operator specializing in international river cruises, is discounting select “Egypt Explorer” packages by $1,000 per couple. The discount will help introduce the company’s new 2008 Egypt river cruise programs. The discount applies to the July 20, Aug. 31, and Sept. 14 departures.
Costa Cruises will debut two new ships in 2009 and the line is giving travel agents a chance to be part of the celebrations.
The godmother for the Independence of the Seas will be an “ordinary British woman who has done extraordinary things,” said Royal Caribbean, which will launch the new ship from Southampton, England, in April.
A low pressure system over the North Atlantic which generated huge high swells across the Caribbean forced cruise ships to leave Grenada on Thursday.