Friday, October 5, 2018

AIDAnova Ready to Go

Meyer Werft plans to send the 183,900-ton AIDAnova off down Ems River early Monday morning.

The plan is for the ship to begin maneuvering to leave at 7am in the Meyer lagoon and pass the barrier into the river at 8am.

The complete story appeared in the October 5 edition of Cruise News Daily.

A Most Generous Donation

Most of us cannot begin to imagine being able to tell someone to write a $5 million check for us to give away, but thankfully people like Micky and Madeleine Arison can and do.

The Micky and Madeleine Arison Family Foundation will make an immediate donation of $5 million to Save the Children and Direct Relief to support the urgent relief needs in communities affected by Hurricane Florence in North and South Carolina, Super Typhoon Mangkhut in the Philippines and the recent Indonesia earthquake and resulting tsunami.

Details appeared in the October 5 issue of Cruise News Daily.

Not Your Grandfather's Art Gallery

Symphony of the Seas, currently the largest cruise ship in the world, has 13,347 pieces of art aboard. Take a look at the nine coolest (below).



Video courtesy of Royal Caribbean International. All rights reserved. May not be copied or used without permission.


Thursday, October 4, 2018

Building Singapore

Carnival's Costa brand has renewed for three years its three-way partnerships between the cruise line, the Singapore Tourism board (to leverage the city's cruise hub) and the Changi Airport (to leverage the city's large air travel hub) and further enhance the city's appeal as a destination and port of embarkation.

The agreement is expected to bring more than 100,000 fly/cruise passengers to Singapore over the next three years.

Details appeared in the October 4 issue of Cruise News Daily. 

You Can Be Immortalized in the Sky

Your vacation memories could help decorate Sky Princess for years to come and be seen by thousands of other Princess cruisers. In the process, you could win yourself a cruise for two on the new mega-liner.

There will be a thousand winners in this contest who have their photos printed and framed and displayed in the stateroom corridors aboard Sky Princess when it sails out of the yard next October, but only one of those will win the grand prize of a cruise for two up to a week long.

The complete story appeared in the October 4 edition of Cruise News Daily.