Trans-Atlantic Passenger Freighter Voyages – Updates

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Passenger freighters are working cargo ships, usually container ships, which carry a small number of passengers as well as freight. The limit for passengers in a freighter is twelve. If the ship carries more than twelve, she becomes a [...]

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MARCO POLO Cruise Offer from New Operator

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Marco Polo (ex Alexandr Pushkin)
9-night British Isles Discovery7th May 2008Departing London Tilbury to Invergordon, Kirkwall (Orkney Isles), Portree (Isle of Skye),Tobermory, Dublin, St Mary’s (Isles of Scilly), St Peter Port, Guernsey
Cabin Type
Rate per person
Standard Plus Inside
£699
Superior Twin Inside
£799
Standard Twin Outside
£899
Standard Plus Twin Outside
£1049
Superior Plus Twin [...]

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New Solstice on the Books for Celebrity

Celebrity Solstice. Photo courtesy Meyer Werft
Celebrity Cruises has ordered a fifth big cruise liner from MEYER WERFT in Papenburg, Germany. The previous contracts for four ships of the Solstice class are now followed by a pre-contract for the construction of a fifth cruise ship.
Delivery of the fifth ship is scheduled for [...]

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Smallest New Ship for Alaska

With all the cruise ships plying Alaska waters this summer, the newest one may well be the smallest. American Safari Cruises’ new luxury yacht, the 36-passenger, 145-foot Safari Explorer, will make her first Alaska port call May 30 in Juneau for the start of her eight-day, seven-night roundtrip cruises from the Alaska capital.
Now undergoing a [...]

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QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 and QUEEN VICTORIA on the North Atlantic

Photographs of QE2 and QV crossing the North Atlantic in January 2008.

Photo courtesy LinersList. May not be reproduced without permission.

Queen Elizabeth 2 crossing the North Atlantic on her last westbound voyage, a job for which she was designed.
Photo courtesy LinersList. May not be reproduced without permission.

Another view of QE2 taken from Queen Victoria, making [...]

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HSH PRINCE ALBERT II for Silversea

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Inaugural Schedule Features Polar Expeditions
Silversea Cruises advises its new expedition ship (originally acquired as World Discoverer) will be renamed HSH Prince Albert II, in tribute to Prince Albert of Monaco. 
The name is fitting for a ship that will be [...]

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Short Cruises on Princess

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New 3 & 4 day sailings in Caribbean Princess
Are you holidaying in in Florida? Are you interested in experiencing Princess but don’t have a full week to spare? Are you a a family who is planning on visiting Disney World and would like to combine [...]

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Great Pacific Cruise from Vancouver

Regent Seven Seas Cruises, voted the #1 Small-Ship Cruise Line” in Condé Nast Traveler’s 2007 Readers’ Choice wards poll, will offer a memory-making journey to the home of some of the world’s oldest civilizations and cultures during the Grand Asia Pacific
Voyage, a 101-night journey featuring calls to 46 ports in 13 countries.
Sailing from Vancouver, B.C. [...]

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Princess Specials for Ontario as of 17 February

Not Many Specials this Week from Princess
SOUTH PACIFIC
Sun Princess – March 5 – Australia 28 Day – “$$ Off Early Booking Discount”
From: $4,030 Inside Standard – $6,000 Outside Standard RDA
*Calculation is the same, but fares may be higher and ship may be different. All fares are non-air unless otherwise stated. [...]

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Azamra and Celebrity Join Princess in Allowing Shipboard Weddings

Passengers who wish to be married at sea by captains of Azamara
Cruises’ and Celebrity Cruises’ ships will soon be able to “tie” their
own steadfast “knot” at sea, when the lines launch legal, captain-led
wedding ceremonies later this year to complement their existing vow
renewal and in-port wedding offerings.
“While many of our guests come onboard seeking a once-in-a-lifetime
wedding [...]

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