Friday, January 19, 2018

Carnival Triumph to Homeport in Ft. Lauderdale & NYC

Carnival Triumph is moving into an interesting new assignment for the line next year. The ship's basic assignment is to be homeported at Ft. Lauderdale for four- and five-night cruises during the winter season. During the summer and fall months, the ship moves north to New York for a variety of interesting longer itineraries. As it repositions north and south en route to and from New York it sails short series of five- and six-night cruises from Norfolk.

The complete story appeared in the January 19 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Balcony Fall Results in Death

A woman aboard Carnival Elation fell from her balcony to a deck several decks below, resulting in her death this morning.

Details appeared in the January 19 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Thursday, January 18, 2018

The Big Ship Shuffle

Norwegian Cruise Line will be shuffling their largest ships among home ports as revealed when the line released their winter 2019/2020 programs this week.

The complete story appeared in the January 18 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Other Things You'll Want to Know - January 18, 2018

CND subscribers also read about:
  • Next winter (2018/2019) MSC will have a second ship homeporting at Dubai. MSC Lirica will be sailing longer cruises from the UAE port to the Gulf and India.
  • Seattle chef Ethan Stowell has joined Holland America's Culinary Council.
  • Carnival has declared a 45-cent-per-share quarterly dividend.
Details appeared in the January 18 edition of Cruise News Daily. 

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Fathom Rides Again

You may remember Carnival's Fathom brand. They came into being to operate people-to-people programs in the Caribbean, and began with several options in the Dominican Republic, operating with P&O's former Adonia. Then they branched out with programs in Cuba. Then P&O wanted their ship back and Fathom became a Carnival brand without a ship.

They have developed several people-to-people shore excursions that are available as day excursions on other Carnival brands calling at the DR. Now they've developed a program which has been sold as a group on a Crown Princess sailing in January. It was such a success, Fathom and Princess have scheduled two more group sailings in March and May of this year.

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