Beginning the middle of next month, passengers sailing aboard Royal Princess will be treated to the third production show in the series of collaborations between Princess and award-winning composer Stephen Schwartz.
Audiences will be treated to adventure, romance, and enchantment the evening they see “The Secret Silk,” but there is also a special twist to this show - live puppetry created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
The complete story appeared in the January 12 edition of Cruise News Daily.
The Hijos de J. Barreras yard had a keel-laying ceremony today in Vigo (Spain) for the first of three ships Ritz-Carlton has on order. During the event, the first block was lowered into the dry dock.
Details appeared in the January 11 edition of Cruise News Daily.
In case you've missed just about any newscast in the last couple of days, Norwegian Breakaway encountered extremely heavy seas as it sailed through winter storm Grayson on January 4 while it returned to New York from the Caribbean. Newscasts are showing lots of video of wet places in the ship as rain blew in through the various sliding doors, and there are numerous accounts of how rough the seas were.
There's an important piece of information being left out of most of the stories, however.
The complete story appeared in the January 11 edition of Cruise News Daily.
Princess Cruises' advertising has, for a long time, said you “come back new,” and guess what? The same applies to their ships. Star Princess has returned from her two-week stay in dry dock and is like a new ship. It has a bunch of new features just in time for its 2018 program to Hawaii.
The complete story appeared in the January 10 edition of Cruise News Daily.
A new advertising campaign is about to be launched by Carnival Cruise Line, and it's going to use a tried and true device that Carnival has used many times before in their ads: the customer testimonial. Each time they use it, they give it a new twist, and the new campaign by their new ad agency, Anomaly, is no different.
The campaign itself revolves around the theme that fun is a result of the choices you make, and you choose what's personally going to be fun for you.
The complete story appeared in the January 9 edition of Cruise News Daily.
The shipbuilding process has become so precise and exacting, that the builders and their customers can tell very quite accurately if they are falling behind or are running ahead of schedule and how much. This has been so perfected that they can now quite confidently tell almost a year before delivery that they will be able to deliver the ship early.
That has enabled STX France to notify Celebrity of Celebrity Edge's early delivery, and the line has now moved the ship's first sailing back from December 16 (2018) to November 21.
The complete story appeared in the January 8 edition of Cruise News Daily.
