Cruise News Daily Headlines for August 8, 2014

* Bringing Home a Little Seuss to Remember Your Cruise
There are new additions to the Fun Shops - Carnival’s online store for gifts and decorations to be delivered onboard your Carnival Cruise. And if I said one was a cat in a hat, would it give you a clue?

* Cape Town Asks the Age-Old Question: Which Comes First? The Chicken or the Larger Terminal?
Cape Town has decided not to build a larger cruise terminal, because they have decided they just don’t need it.

* Other Things You’ll Want to Know
CND subscribers also read about what happens if the weather cooperates ... and celebrating 100.

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The crew of Carnival Splendor turns out to celebrate their perfect USPH score.

Cruise News Daily Headlines for August 7, 2014

* Fitness Garden to be Constructed on Crystal Symphony
Crystal Symphony is scheduled for a refit this fall, and one of the new features to be added will be an outdoor fitness “garden” on Decks 7, 8 and 12 aft. At the same time the indoor facility will be refit with new state-of-the-art equipment.

* Move the Ship - Wiki Wiki!
With Hurricane Iselle headed toward the island of Hawaii tonight, Pride of America needs to move out of the way. The ship is at Kauai today (at the other end of the state) and had planned an overnight two-day call, but NCL said today the ship will leave tonight at 7pm (local time) and remain at sea all day Friday, safely out of the storm’s way.

* Other Things You’ll Want to Know
CND subscribers also read about being all dress up and nowhere to go ... and Iceland may tighten tender rules.

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Meyer Delays Quantum Float Out

Meyer Werft said today that Saturday's float out of Royal Caribbean's Quantum of the Seas would not take place as planned. Adverse weather is forecast for Saturday at Papenburg.

The decision will also cancel the rearrangement of the two floating sections of Anthem of the Seas in the building dock. One of those is already floating in the shipyard's harbor.

Meyer said they will make an announcement of a new date for the float out early next week.

Update August 8: The float out has tentatively been rescheduled for Tuesday, August 12 at 4pm (10am Eastern US time). 

Update August 12: Weather is still preventing the float out. The process is now scheduled to begin Tuesday evening at 8:00pm (2:00pm Eastern US time) with the moving of the sections of Anthem of the Seas out of the way, but the actual float out of Quantum of the Seas will now occur around 6:00 am on Wednesday, August 13 (just after midnight Wednesday in the US). It should be docked at the outdoor pier about three hours later. It's all still subject to weather conditions.

Quantum of the Seas sits at the ready to float out of the building dock. Just ahead of her is a section of Anthem of the Seas.

Photo courtesy of Meyer Werft. All rights reserved. May not be copied or used without permission.

Hans Hesselberg to Head MSC Hotel Operations

MSC Cruises appoints Hans Hesselberg as new Senior Vice President Hotel Operations


FORT LAUDERDALE, FL (August 7, 2014) – MSC Cruises USA President Richard E. Sasso announced today the appointment of Hans Hesselberg as senior vice president of Hotel Operations.

In this role, Hesselberg will be responsible for overall vessel operation including product delivery and shipboard services on MSC Cruises ships operating in the Caribbean. Sasso noted that this is a particularly strategic hire citing Hesselberg’s role to ensure that the signature service and onboard experiences of MSC Divina, the line’s first ship dedicated to the North American market, continue to evolve to meet the needs of the market as the ship prepares for her first season in the Mediterranean in spring 2015.

“Hans Hesselberg’s distinguished career of more than 40 years in the industry makes him uniquely qualified to contribute to our continued commitment to deliver a product that appeals to the North American market,” said Sasso.

Before joining MSC Cruises, Hesselberg served in a number of senior-level operations roles, most recently as the head of Hotel Operations for Costa Cruise Lines based in the Genoa, Italy, head office. Prior to that, he was vice president, Operations for the Americas for Costa. He joined Costa from American Hawaii Cruises where he served as vice president of Hotel Operations.

Hesselberg and his wife, Mary, are residents of Miami.


Source: MSC Cruises

Cruise News Daily Headlines for August 6, 2014

* The Place to Catch “Falling Stars”
Costa offers passengers aboard their neoCollection ships special experiences of various types, but aboard sailings over the next few days they are outdoing themselves.

* Other Things You’ll Want to Know
CND subscribers also read about Lusitania being remembered ... an unusual situation aboard Costa Concordia ... and Concordia’s captain still stirring things up in Italy.

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