Holland America Line increased to 15 the number of 10-day cruises it will offer on the Ryndam through Mexico’s Sea of Cortez in 2008, four more than in 2007.
Puerto Rico’s San Juan now has two more piers that can accommodate mega cruise ships, said Fernando Bonilla, the executive director of the San Juan Port Authority, last week. Drainage work was completed on Piers 3 and 4, adding to four already existing piers in San Juan Bay that have the capacity to handle large cruise ships.
Beginning in September 2007, Norwegian Cruise Line’s Pride of Aloha will begin 10-day and 11-day itineraries from Honolulu, while the Norwegian Sun will be redeployed to Miami to sail seven-day western Caribbean cruises commencing in October 2007 and continuing through April 2008.
Cayman Islands-based Image, the largest shipboard photography concessionaire in the cruise industry, has signed an exclusive, long-term agreement to provide photo concession services on all existing Celebrity Cruises ships, as well as the planned Solstice-class new-builds beginning in 2008, Image announced last week.
Emerging from a five-week work period, Windstar Cruises’ motor sailing yacht Wind Surf sailed from Barbados on December 16 with all Degrees of Difference enhancements completed on board.
The Carnival Liberty will launch a seven-day Caribbean cruise schedule from Miami beginning in May 2008, and its upcoming, new sister ship, the Carnival Freedom, will reposition to Fort Lauderdale, to assume the Liberty’s six- and eight-day Caribbean cruises, in November 2008.