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MSC Cruises Heads to Arabia
MSC Cruises has started offering itineraries to exotic locations in Arabia. The line is offering a hefty discount of fifty per cent off for one person per stateroom for winter sailings on a seven night cruise from 31 st July 2011. MSC has rates beginning from $ 649 for one person, and $ 324.50 for another, in addition to GFT’s (government fees and taxes). If you have a kid aged seventeen and lower, they can sail for as less as $ 99. MSC Lirica will be sailing on the seven night cruises to such intriguing locations along the Arabian Sea as Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The sailing will also be calling at Oman at the Al Fujairah, Muscat. You will come across such sights as the Great Pyramids of Giza or desert drives over sand dunes. The seven night Arabian Adventure will sail round trip from Dubai [...]
P&O Cruises Replaces Tripoli in Winter Itineraries
As Libya is undergoing a period of civil unrest, P & O Cruises have replaced Tripoli as a port of call on all three scheduled itineraries. Adonia, part of the P & O fleet, has replaced a 20th Dec 2011 call to Tripoli with La Goulette on 31 s t Dec 2011 as a port of call. The call dates for Malta, Ashdod and Haifa has been changed so that the change can be accommodated. The complete itinerary, along with changes, has been given below . . . Cruise no D 1 1 5 will depart on 20 t h Dec, and will call in Naples, Salerno, La Goulette, Malta, Alexandria, Port Said, Haifa, Ashdod, Limassol and Pireaus, in the reverse order. Prices will begin at £ 2, 239 per person on occupancy of two in an ocean view cabin, along with air fare. In addition, a 11 t h Jan 2012 call to Tripoli as part of the [...]
Aruba Sees 32 pc Rise in Cruise Visitors in 2011
Aruba Ports Authority has stated that in the months of Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr and May, more than forty thousand additional cruise visitors have visited the island of Aruba. This is an increase by thirty two percent, as compared to the number of passengers in the year 2010. This augment also features the 101, 363 (one hundred one thousand three hundred sixty three) passengers in the month of March. This is a simply record breaking figure. In the first five months, from Jan to May, the calls made by cruise ships to Aruba have risen by twenty per cent. The port had 203 (two hundred and three) calls in total. This was an increase from 183(one hundred eighty three) in 2010. Until May this year, the total number of cruise visitors that have set foot in Aruba is 368,860 (three hundred and sixty eight [...]
Liverpool will lose Fred Olsen’s Business
Even though the spanking new Pier Head cruise terminal has been set up at the city center water front at the Port of Liverpool, Fred Olsen Cruises will be pulling out from the port. The cruise line was one of the most valued customers for the Port of Liverpool, and it is set to lose the business. This is despite having set up the 19 million cruise terminal, which was inaugurated in 2009. The Liverpool Port suffered the setback due to the brand new terminal being out of bounds for ship turnaround calls. Turnaround calls mean the embarking as well as disembarking commuters and supplies at the start and beginning of the voyage. This is not allowed at the Pier head Cruise terminal. The terminal can only be used for day visits by ships, and not for turnarounds. This state of affairs is due to Southampton, [...]
MSC returns to La Goulette, Tunis
MSC Cruises gave the news that cruises offered by the company will be reinstating La Goulette at the Tunis Port in Tunisia as a port of call on their regular itineraries, beginning from July. Major cruise lines had stopped calling at Tunis since there were a few internal security issues. As the country has now returned to normalcy and the security levels become stable, MSC will be offering the port of La Gaulette as part of the itinerary for the seven night Mediterranean cruises. MSC Cruises CEO, Pierfrancesco Vago stated that tourism is one of the most important resources for the economic revival of Tunisia, and that they were proud of being able to support this. MSC Lirica and MSC Fantasia is scheduled to come back to La Goulette on 5 t h of Jul, with MSC Sinfonia and MSC Splendida coming [...]
MSC Cruises Launches In Ship MSC Aurea Spa Suites
This fall, MSC Cruises are reaching out to spa lovers all over the world by introducing the new MSC Aurea Spa Suites. This category of suites will have their debut on the MSC Fantasia and the MSC Splendida. The category will have a range of similarities with the MSC Yacht Club accommodations. MSC Aurea Spa Suites will make their entrance for the first time in the MSC Fantasia on a 11 night round trip cruise that departs from Genova on 5 t h November and calls at Portugal, Morocco, Spain and Italy. On MS Splendida, they will debut on the 11 night 13 t h cruise from Genoa that calls in Turkey, Greece and Italy. The elegant retreat close to the MSC Aurea Spa as well as an assortment of spa facilities are provided to the guests booking the MSC Aurea Spa Suite as part of the cruise fare. There [...]
P&O Cruises Announces New Ship coming in 2015
P&O Cruises announced a considerable expansion of its fleet last week by the addition of a cruise ship weighing 141, 000 GRT. The ship will be built by Fincantieri ship yards in Italy. The new ship will be part of the service only by March 2015 at the earliest. The ship is as yet unnamed and has a capacity of three thousand six hundred and eleven passengers. The ship will be the largest in size among the fleet of P&O Cruises. The ship is the largest cruise ship that is built aiming at the British Market specifically. The ship will be built at the Monfalcone yard of Fincantieri and will have an all in cost of about € 155,000 per lower berth. The ship will usher in an era of excitement for P&O cruises, and will feature an innovative and stylish design. The passenger facilities will [...]
2011 Hurricane Season Forecast
Along with sunshine, Caribbean Cruise season, BBQ’s and more, this year’s summer will also be marked by something much more unwelcome – the Atlantic hurricane season. The season starts from June 1st and goes on till Nov 30th every year. The yearly occurrence is however predicted to be much higher than above normal in the 2011 season, according to the annual preseason report issued by the Climate Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). To be more specific, what the NOAA is forecasting is twelve to eighteen named storms or winds that have velocities of more than thirty nine mi / hr or more. Of the storms, six to ten has a potential of becoming hurricanes or winds that have seventy four mi per hour or more velocity. Out of the hurricanes, 3 to 6 can [...]