You Can’t Get It Any Fresher (unless you’re a bear)

For many people going to Alaska, one of the biggest thrills is sport fishing and catching their own salmon or halibut, and then having it processed and shipped home to dine on just days after it was caught.

Now Princess Cruises can do something even better for you. Imagine catching your salmon this afternoon, going back to the ship and having it served to you that evening. You can’t get it any fresher than that.

The complete story appeared in the February 18 edition of Cruise News Daily.

Behind the Design

Holland America has another video series beginning about Koningsdam. This one is a conversation with the ship’s interior designer Adam Tihany about his design concepts for the ship.

In the first video he reveals how the “Architecture of Music” and the curves of particular instruments influenced public spaces on the ship.

The video is below.

Details appeared in the February 18 edition of Cruise News Daily.

Other Things You'll Want to Know - February 18, 2016

CND subscribers also read about:

• Houston’s KPRC is reporting that when the winter cruise season ends in a few weeks (April), and Norwegian Cruise Line and Princess Cruises leave, Houston’s Bayport Cruise Terminal will likely be repurposed for cargo use. 
• Ovation of the Seas has now seen the daylight. The ship was towed out of the building dock this afternoon at Meyer Werft (early morning in the US).

Details appeared in the February 18 edition of Cruise News Daily.

Ovation of the Seas departing the building dock today.

 Photo courtesy of Meyer Werft. All rights reserved. May not be copied or used without permission.

An Entertaining Switcheroo

Norwegian Cruise Line says they were overwhelmed by the popularity of the Supper Club show “For the Record” aboard Norwegian Escape, Norwegian is moving it to the (main) Escape Theater and making it a complimentary show. It will leave The Supper Club on April 9 and reopening in the Escape Theater a week later on April 16.

This will set off a series of entertainment changes across two ships.

Details appeared in the February 17 edition of Cruise News Daily

Rescued at Sea and Arrested

Passengers aboard Disney Wonder were atwitter Tuesday when the ship rescued a couple from a sailboat in the Florida Straits which had sent a distress call. What the passengers didn’t know, however, was who the couple was, why they were on the sailboat and that a bigger part of the story was going to play out when the ship returned to Miami.

Details appeared in the February 17 edition of Cruise News Daily.