AIDAnova Ready to Go

Meyer Werft plans to send the 183,900-ton AIDAnova off down Ems River early Monday morning.

The plan is for the ship to begin maneuvering to leave at 7am in the Meyer lagoon and pass the barrier into the river at 8am.

The complete story appeared in the October 5 edition of Cruise News Daily.

A Most Generous Donation

Most of us cannot begin to imagine being able to tell someone to write a $5 million check for us to give away, but thankfully people like Micky and Madeleine Arison can and do.

The Micky and Madeleine Arison Family Foundation will make an immediate donation of $5 million to Save the Children and Direct Relief to support the urgent relief needs in communities affected by Hurricane Florence in North and South Carolina, Super Typhoon Mangkhut in the Philippines and the recent Indonesia earthquake and resulting tsunami.

Details appeared in the October 5 issue of Cruise News Daily.

Not Your Grandfather's Art Gallery

Symphony of the Seas, currently the largest cruise ship in the world, has 13,347 pieces of art aboard. Take a look at the nine coolest (below).



Video courtesy of Royal Caribbean International. All rights reserved. May not be copied or used without permission.

Building Singapore

Carnival's Costa brand has renewed for three years its three-way partnerships between the cruise line, the Singapore Tourism board (to leverage the city's cruise hub) and the Changi Airport (to leverage the city's large air travel hub) and further enhance the city's appeal as a destination and port of embarkation.

The agreement is expected to bring more than 100,000 fly/cruise passengers to Singapore over the next three years.

Details appeared in the October 4 issue of Cruise News Daily. 

You Can Be Immortalized in the Sky

Your vacation memories could help decorate Sky Princess for years to come and be seen by thousands of other Princess cruisers. In the process, you could win yourself a cruise for two on the new mega-liner.

There will be a thousand winners in this contest who have their photos printed and framed and displayed in the stateroom corridors aboard Sky Princess when it sails out of the yard next October, but only one of those will win the grand prize of a cruise for two up to a week long.

The complete story appeared in the October 4 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

New Interior Designers Give Mein Schiff 2 a New Look

When Mein Schiff 2 is delivered to TUI next spring, it's going to have a new look in many areas.

Two areas that will definitely have a different look and wow passengers are the Day & Night Bistro and the Schaubar ("Show Bar"). For Mein Schiff 2, award-winning German designer Werner Aisslinger has created new designs for both.

The complete story appeared in the October 3 issue of Cruise News Daily.

The Day & Night Bistro aboard Mein Schiff 2

The Schaubar aboard Mein Schiff 2

Renderings courtesy of TUI Cruises. All rights reserved. May not be copied or used without express permission. 

Other Things You'll Want to Know - October 3, 2018

CND subscribers also read about:

• "Pizza Viennese" being served aboard Pacific Explorer. 
• In case Superman sail

Details appeared in the October 3 edition of Cruise News Daily

Pizza Viennese as served aboard Pacific Explorer

Photo courtesy of P&O Australia Cruises. All rights reserved. May not be copied or used without express permission. 

Costa Fortuna to Receive 8 Million Euro Restyling for European Return

The 103,000-ton Costa Fortuna is returning to Europe next summer after several years of carrying the Costa flag in Asian markets. Before it returns, many areas of the ship will be restyled in a dry dock which will be completed in Singapore in December.

The complete story appeared in the October 2 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Renderings courtesy of Costa Crociere. All rights reserved. Many not be copied or used without express permission.

Other Things You'll Want to Know - October 2, 2018

CND subscribers also read about:

• A "Frightfully Fun" time aboard Carnival
• Milestones for Icy Strait Point

Details appeared in the October 2 issue of Cruise News Daily. 

Scrub-a-dub-dub

How much do you know about closed-loop Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems (EGCS). Well, if the first thought that popped into your mind wasn't “scrubber,” you are one of the people a new group is targeting. Well, you are if you are a leader of industry, national and international authorities, non-governmental organizations. If members of the public, like you and me, also get informed, that's ok too.

The new group of 18 shipping industry giants, including Carnival Corp and their nine brands, has formed the Clean Shipping Alliance 2020 (CSA 2020) to inform their target audience about Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems and their associated air and water emissions.

The complete story appeared in the October 1 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Other Things You'll Want to Know - October 1, 2018

CND subscribers also read about:

• A new show aboard AIDAluna
• Grand Celebration has again been chartered for two months to house relief workers, this time in Massachusetts. The ship will be out of service for all of October and November. 
• A woman was arrested for cutting and stabbing her boyfriend with a steakknife aboard Carnival Fantasy during an argument. 

Details appeared in the October 1 issue of Cruise News Daily. 

A scene from "Augenblick" aboard AIDAluna. Note the performer hanging above the state at the top of the picture.

Photos courtesy of AIDA. All rights reserved. May not be copied or used without express permission.