Cunard Releases Queen Victoria Plans

Cunard has released details of the changes they plan to make to Queen Victoria during its May dry dock, which includes the creation of Britannia Club facilities aboard the ship.

The work will be done during a monthlong dry dock at Fincantieri's Palermo yard beginning May 5. Completion is planned for June 4.

The complete story appeared in the March 17 edition of Cruise News Daily.

The new Chart Room aboard Queen Victoria

Britannia Club stateroom aboard Queen Victoria

The new Britannia Club restaurant aboard Queen Victoria

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Other Things You'll Want to Know - March 17, 2017

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Details appeared in the March 17 edition of Cruise News Daily.

Princess Details Dry Dock Plans for Caribbean Princess

Where has the winter gone? It's only ten days until Caribbean Princess' big spring dry dock on March 26 when she gets all spiffed up for her summer in Europe (and even bigger summer next year, you know where).

She's going to be spending two weeks in Freeport getting rejuvenated and a bunch of new features.

Details appeared in the March 16 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

(Almost) Too Many to Count

Quick! Can you remember which Holland America ship just scored a perfect score on its US Public Health inspection? (It was Oosterdam on March 3.) Holland America ships are so clean and the 100's are coming so fast, it's hard to remember which ships have obtained the hard-to-get score.

Here comes another one. The line said today Koningsdam now has also scored 100 on its unannounced inspection on March 12 during a turnaround at Ft. Lauderdale.

The complete story appeared in the March 16 edition of Cruise News Daily.

The Shape of Things to Come

You don't order a ship and have it delivered next week, or next year, for that matter. Then again you don't have to order it ten years in advance either. Yet the world's shipyards have cruise ships on order that far out.

The health of shipyards' order books relates directly to the strength of the demand for cruises, and right now, those order books have never been stronger.

Details appeared in the March 15 edition of Cruise News Daily.