Princess Cruises announced that the Caribbean Princess will return to New York in summer 2009 for a second season of the line’s roundtrip sailings to Bermuda and the Caribbean. The ship will change directions in late summer to head north for a season of roundtrip Canada & New England sailings.
The first phase of the project to build the Sans Souci cruise ship terminal is concluding with the reconstruction of piers, new infrastructure, and with the improvements of nautical systems, at a cost of more than $50 million.
Royal Caribbean International and its sister brands Celebrity Cruises and Azamara Cruises have unveiled new online group booking and management features on the cruise lines’ travel agent website, cruisingpower.com.
Carnival Cruise Lines on Tuesday showed off Carnival Imagination’s new digs, part of the $250 million Evolutions of Fun initiative for its eight Fantasy-class ships. The first Fantasy-class ship was built back in 1990 and, anecdotally, the blueprint for this line of ships was first drafted on a piece of paper by Carnival architect, Joe Farcus in 1987 in the office of Ted Arison, Carnival’s founder.
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. awarded a multiyear contract extension to SeaMobile Enterprises for SeaMobile’s satellite communication services. The agreement includes fleet-wide services for the Royal Caribbean, Celebrity and Azamara brands.
Deluxe cruise operators Oceania Cruises and Azamara Cruises have unveiled their 2009 European sailings, which are similar in that they both call at many less-visited ports of call.