Time Lapse Video from Cruise Ships

This fascinating-to-watch video, created by a British Columbia freelance video producer, is a compilation of interesting things he’s seen from the deck of cruise ships around the world.



You'll want to watch it more than once.

A Few Minutes with Dan Harahan from Celebrity Cruises

Dan Harahan, the president of Celebrity Cruises, answered question posed by customers on Facebook during a video conference on Livestream this morning. During the informal Q&A, he answered questions about suspending the line's calls at Egypt, expansion of the Qsine restaurant, new features on the line's forthcoming ships, the why's behind the line's smoking policy, and future plans after Celebrity Reflection joins the fleet.



Yes, the recording does start in mid-sentence. The first few minutes of the video conference were lost apparently when someone at Livestream or Celebrity forgot to push the "record" button.

Weekly Video Cruise News Summary May 7, 2011

This week's news from the industry, courtesy of Cruise News Daily includes stories about Carnival Cruise Lines, a passenger overboard from Celebrity Millennium, a bill to aid cruise ship crime victims introduced in the California state assembly, Carnival Magic, Costa Favolosa, Royal Princess, Adonia, Cozumel, and Grand Princess.

Links mentioned in the video can be found at http://www.cruisenewsdaily.com

AIDA Passengers Celebrate Carnival's 100th Ship

Carnival Corp recently celebrated the addition of the 100th ship to their fleet. Last Friday, passengers across all ten brands celebrated the accomplishment. There was a champagne toast (provided by Carnival) at dinner for all 227,000 passengers. (Can you imagine what 227,000 glasses of champagne cost?) After dinner it was up to each brand and ship to decide what they wanted to do. AIDA is Carnival's German brand, and on the AIDA ships, they had a deck party. You don't have to speak German to understand the video below from AIDAcara. It shows the German people know how to party. But then again, you get the feeling that these people would party for any reason - like even Carnival's 27th ship.

Video of Grand Princess Drydock - Day 24

This is it. Grand Princess left the Grand Bahama Shipyard, and has arrived in Ft. Lauderdale. The first passengers are now aboard the "new" Grand Princess enjoying the new piazza and other new facilities. Martyn gives us a final tour just before Grand Princess sailed this evening for Europe.



Want to see more of how it all happened? Princess has a photo journal that details the work being done in all the areas over the last 23 days.

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