Eighth in a series of new ships for 2016 Seabourn is an ultra-luxury cruise line that has been around for 30 years but effectively became a player in 2009 when the revolutionary Seabourn Odyssey arrived. With selling older ships Pride, Spirit and Legend to Windstar, the Encore is now Seabourn’s fourth ship and will be followed… Continue reading New ship No. 8 — Seabourn Encore
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New ship No. 6 — Mein Schiff 5
Sixth in a series of new ships for 2016 Most North Americans, it’s safe to assume, know little about TUI Cruises. It’s a smaller cruise line, or a cruise line of smaller ships, or both. It is, however, owned by Royal Caribbean and that gives it a cache of credibility for people interesting in cruising on… Continue reading New ship No. 6 — Mein Schiff 5
New ship No. 5 — Harmony of the Seas
Fifth in a series of new ships for 2016 This third Oasis Class ship is already being called the world’s biggest ship by Royal Caribbean, but who’s measuring. Harmony of the Seas is the identical length of its predecessor for the title, Allure of the Seas, and weighs 718 tons more but is 49 feet smaller… Continue reading New ship No. 5 — Harmony of the Seas
New ship No. 3 — Ovation of the Seas
Third in a series of new ships for 2016 Royal Caribbean’s newest class of ship is the Quantum Class and when Ovation of the Seas joins it, two-thirds of the ships will be based in Asia. Unless you go off to search for it to take a cruise cruise, the only place you’ll find out about… Continue reading New ship No. 3 — Ovation of the Seas
Cruise Advertising From Customers
In an era when every-day baseball statistics now are WHIP, WAR and OBP, it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that measuring success for the cruise industry now includes statistics from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. For example: Norwegian is publicizing the fact that in one 20-day period on the Escape, its customers logged 576,896 Facebook… Continue reading Cruise Advertising From Customers