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• 31/05/2021 05:40

Costa Cruises switches Costa Pacifica with Costa Firenze for 2021 Dubai cruise season

Costa Cruises has replaced Costa Pacifica with Costa Firenze on the schedule for its upcoming 2021 winter cruise season in the Arabian Gulf. Instead of homeporting Costa Pacifica in Dubai for the winter cruise season, Costa Cruises will instead deploy its newer, larger cruise ship Costa Firenze.

Costa Firenze, designed… read more

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• 28/05/2021 05:41

Norwegian Cruise Line announces plans to put eight ships back into service in 2021

Norwegian Cruise Line has announced plans for eight additional ships to resumes cruises from September, 2021, but these vessels will be operating from the United States. The announcement marks the first time Norwegian Cruise Line has announced a plan for the resumption of cruises from the US in addition to other regions.

Norwegian C… read more

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• 27/05/2021 21:24

Holland America extends Mediterranean season aboard Eurodam for 2021

Holland America Line has extended Eurodam’s Mediterranean cruise season this summer, with the ship now due to assume the previously scheduled cruises on Westerdam from September 12th through to its October30 transatlantic departure. Eurodam will sail her four already announced Greek cruises this summer, before taking over Westerdam… read more

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• 21/05/2021 21:01

Princess Cruises introduces Dine My Way for convenient and contactless dining

Princess Cruises has unveiled Dine My Way, another flexible MedallionClass enhancement that makes it easy for guests to pre-plan and tailor their dining experiences, and pairs with the revolutionary OceanNow  on demand service to offer the ultimate in onboard dining flexibility and convenience.

Dine My Way gives guests t… read more

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• 21/05/2021 04:46

New Carnival cruise ship Mardi Gras ramps up for US cruise restart from Florida

Carnival Cruise Line has reflagged Mardi Gras from Panama to the Bahamas and will soon reposition her from Barcelona to Port Canaveral ahead of an anticipated reopening of the US cruise sector this summer. Mardi Gras will depart Barcelona on Friday, sailing a trans-Atlantic cruise to Florida without any passengers. Ahead of her rep… read more

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• 19/05/2021 19:42

AIDA Cruises confirms AIDAnova for Dubai 2021/22 cruise season

Just days after it appeared to drop its 2021/22 Dubai cruise season for AIDAcosma, AIDA Cruises has confirmed that it will instead be deploying her sister ship AIDAnova in the region.

AIDAnova, which at the time of her launch in 2018 was the world’s first LNG-fueled cruise ship, will homeport in Dubai, cruising roundtrip from the ci… read more

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• 17/05/2021 05:18

AIDA Cruises expands AIDA Ahoy tour options out of Kiel, Germany

AIDA Cruises has launched additional AIDA Ahoy voyages aboard AIDAsol out of Kiel, Germany as a result of unexpectedly high demand. The AIDA Ahoy voyages aboard the ship are due to depart from Kiel on May 22nd, 2021, and were opened for booking earlier this month, selling out within days.

As a result, AIDA Cruises will be exp… read more

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• 16/05/2021 06:30

Royal Caribbean confirms Odyssey of the Seas Israel cruises cancelled

Royal Caribbean International has confirmed that they are in fact cancelling Odyssey of the Seas Israel cruises amid ongoing conflict between Israeli security forces and Palestinians. A previous version of this story indicated that the planned cruise season would go ahead as planned, based on information provided by the cruise line… read more

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• 14/05/2021 21:56

Four ships to sail roundtrip cruises from Dubai for the 2021/22 winter cruise season

The 2021/22 Arabian Gulf cruise season is shaping up to be one of the slowest in over a decade, with just four cruise ships currently offering cruises from Dubai, as the global cruise industry struggles to resume operations. Last year was meant to be the biggest cruise season on record for Dubai, with ten cruise ships from nine cruise lin… read more

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• 13/05/2021 15:52

These new cruise itineraries pack the wow factor

When it comes to itineraries, cruise lines up the ante every year, offering more ports, harder-to-reach locales and ever more creative themes. And when ships begin returning to service in earnest after the long pandemic pause, many cruise lines will debut some of their unique itineraries.

Here are a few of the most intriguing ones on offer… read more