Dividing up the Pie

There's been a lot of coverage of growing home ports in the southeastern states - Charleston (SC), Jacksonville, and Mobile. Each is working to some degree or another for more or larger ships, and still other ports are marketing themselves to cruise lines looking for their first ship. Generally, there's excitement in those ports.

But for all the excitement there is in those ports, there's a bit of uneasiness a few hundred miles to the south in the larger ports of Port Canaveral and Tampa.

The complete article appeared in the June 4, 2010, edition of Cruise News Daily.

Largest LED Chandelier at Sea aboard Norwegian Epic

* Let There Be Light
Norwegian Epic is now home to the largest LED chandelier ever installed on a cruise ship. The three-week process was completed at the STX Europe yard in Saint Nazaire (France) where the ship is in the finishing process for handover later this month. A larger photo appears in a newsfile on the CND website.

The complete story appeared in the June 4, 2010, edition of Cruise News Daily.

Twiggy Becomes a Godmother and Royal Caribbean Links with Dreamworks

* Other Things You'll Want to Know
CND subscribers also read about Twiggy christening a cruise ship ... and a new entertainment alliance between Royal Caribbean and Dreamworks Animation.

Details appeared in the "Other Things You'll Want to Know" column in the June 4, 2010, edition of Cruise News Daily.

Pushing the Envelope - with a Guitar

Norwegian Cruise Line announced the latest addition to their lineup of entertainment options for Norwegian Epic, and it's one that may cause you to scratch your head. For just $10 a day, you will be able to rent a Gibson guitar to play in the privacy of your cabin aboard NCL's newest ship.

This may not seem too newsworthy, and in reality, it's probably not, but it is another sign that it's going to be "different out there" (to quote an old, old NCL advertising slogan) on Norwegian Epic.

In this CND article we see how NCL is continuing to expand the appeal of Norwegian Epic to a market beyond the traditional cruise market - one that is used to vacationing a very different way.

The complete article appeared in the June 3, 2010, edition of Cruise News Daily.

Staying in Belize, NCL's Latest Nod to Freestyle, Safety in Britain, Crystal Gets Jazzy

* Other Things You'll Want to Know
CND subscribers also read about ...
+ a passenger who liked Belize so well he just though he'd stay ...
+ a new "no jacket required" policy in a new place on NCL - NCL no longer requires passengers to wear life jackets during muster drills fleetwide, except on Pride of America ... truly Freestyle Cruising ...
+ British inspectors detaining another ship for safety violations ...
+ and Crystal scheduling a jazz cruise in the Caribbean.

Details of these items appeared in the "Other Things You'll Want to Know" column in the June 3, 2010, edition of Cruise News Daily.