EasyCruise Life grounded briefly today while entering the harbor at the Greek port of Syros. There were no injuries. The ship was towed to port, and the cruise will continue as scheduled.
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Friday, June 13, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
easyCruise Life Enters Service
easyCruise added a second ship to the fleet when easyCruise Life entered service May 17 almost a month late due to an ongoing labor action at the Greek shipyard where the €20 million refit was taking place. The ship will initially be operating Greek island itineraries.The ship is almost twice the size of easyCruise One. The line said they have shelved their previously-announced plans for newbuilds for now, and are instead looking for another similarly-sized ship to replace easyCruise One.
In the CND article, we looked at how different the two ships are and how they represent the evolution of the easyCruise concept.
The complete article appeared in the May 19, 2008 edition of Cruise News Daily.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
CND Headlines - EasyCruise Grows Again
EasyCruise is going to grow next summer, actually almost tripling in size, by adding a second ship more than twice the size of its first. The line has acquired the 1981-built The Jasmine (currently sailing as Farah) and will remodel it to its needs. They will place it into service next spring on a new 7-day itinerary that will take it to Greece and Turkey.
What's as interesting as its new itinerary is the way the easyCruise concept has quietly changed and evolved with little fanfare.
Details were in today's edition of Cruise News Daily.
What's as interesting as its new itinerary is the way the easyCruise concept has quietly changed and evolved with little fanfare.
Details were in today's edition of Cruise News Daily.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
From the was this really a good idea department:
This summer easyCruise has brought their unique style of cruising to Greece, and by most accounts they are doing good business. To promote the cruises to their home-turf-market in the UK, easyCruise published the results of a survey taken by the Lonely Planet guidebooks. It turns out the average person in the 24 to 34 age group (easyCruise's prime market) doesn't know too much about Greece.
The good news is that they know where it's located. 94% knew that Greece is bordered by the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas, and 92% knew that it shared a border with Turkey. But when it came to practical information needed for traveling in Greece, they began to get in trouble. 34% did not know that the Euro is now the currency of the country, and 88% did not know the word for "hello" in Greek. (A third of them thought the Spanish word for "hello," "ola," was Greek.) When it came to some background on Greece that would help their sightseeing, things were dismal there too. When asked to name as many of the 12 Greek deities as possible, 45% could not name any, and 10% could name only one. Only 28% knew that the Classic period of Greek history and culture was between the 6th and 4th centuries BC. (And that was a multiple choice question, where one choice was much earlier in BC, and one was AD.) They didn't fare much better with modern history. 78% did not know that the country's last dictatorship was from 1967 to 1974. (Again, it was multiple choice , with the other two choices being much earlier in the 19th and 20th centuries.) And only 4% of them knew the name of the current Greek prime minister.
98% did not recognize that Greece is considered the birthplace of wine; they just drink it.
There are two schools of thought on these results. One would have to wonder if it's a good idea for easyCruise to spend half a year in a place their market seems to have so little interest in that they would know so little about it. But the other is that they can fill their ship with people who would be eager to learn about a place about which they know so little.
Either way, Stelios knows the ship is full. He doesn't care why.
The good news is that they know where it's located. 94% knew that Greece is bordered by the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas, and 92% knew that it shared a border with Turkey. But when it came to practical information needed for traveling in Greece, they began to get in trouble. 34% did not know that the Euro is now the currency of the country, and 88% did not know the word for "hello" in Greek. (A third of them thought the Spanish word for "hello," "ola," was Greek.) When it came to some background on Greece that would help their sightseeing, things were dismal there too. When asked to name as many of the 12 Greek deities as possible, 45% could not name any, and 10% could name only one. Only 28% knew that the Classic period of Greek history and culture was between the 6th and 4th centuries BC. (And that was a multiple choice question, where one choice was much earlier in BC, and one was AD.) They didn't fare much better with modern history. 78% did not know that the country's last dictatorship was from 1967 to 1974. (Again, it was multiple choice , with the other two choices being much earlier in the 19th and 20th centuries.) And only 4% of them knew the name of the current Greek prime minister.
98% did not recognize that Greece is considered the birthplace of wine; they just drink it.
There are two schools of thought on these results. One would have to wonder if it's a good idea for easyCruise to spend half a year in a place their market seems to have so little interest in that they would know so little about it. But the other is that they can fill their ship with people who would be eager to learn about a place about which they know so little.
Either way, Stelios knows the ship is full. He doesn't care why.
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