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Passenger Jumps from Norwegian Star
A woman passenger is believed to have jumped overboard from Norwegian
Star the evening of Oct 11th as it was sailing away from Cabo San
Lucas on the last leg of an 8-night cruise round trip from Los Angeles.
Short-Lived Disruption for NCL in Hawaii
When the earthquake rumbled through Hawaii last Sunday morning, what
affected NCL's sizable fleet there was more the resulting airline
snarl-up than the earthquake or damage. The fleet and the
passengers are safe, as you would expect.
Oceania Cruises cancels spring sailing with Libya call
Oceania Cruises has replaced its previously scheduled April 17 voyage
that included Libya with a Barcelona to Athens itinerary that
commences the Regatta's 2007 Europe season.
Called the Epicurean Odyssey, it will be hosted by chef Jacques
Pepin, and will combine destinations in Italy, Spain and Greece, and
include four maiden calls: Mahon, on Spain's island of Minorca; Porto
Cervo, in Sardinia, and La Spezia, Italy; and Monemvasia, Greece,
near the UNESCO World Heritage site of Epidaurus.
The original 11-day itinerary also sailed from Barcelona to Athens
and called in Mahon and Monemvasia, but included additional stops in
Greece, Italy, Libya and Tunisia.
Libya recently denied entry to Americans on a Silversea cruise vessel.
NY gallery to show Carnival Freedom art
Months before the Carnival Freedom’s March debut in Venice,
watercolors and pencil studies of nine murals commissioned for the
110,000gt vessel will be displayed at Manhattan’s Flomenhaft Gallery.
The works are part of a six-week exhibit of figurative oil paintings
and sculptures entitled ‘Women Warriors: The Yin and Yang’
by Massachusetts-based artist Joan Barber, who is among several
artists responsible for creating the multimillion-dollar art
collection aboard the new 2,974-passenger vessel.
Ambassadors acquires Columbia Queen
Ambassadors Cruise Group acquired the 150-passenger Columbia Queen,
following the earlier assumption of the laid-up paddlewheeler’s
mortgage. Terms were not disclosed.
‘We are pleased to add a seventh U.S.-flagged cruise vessel to
our Majestic America Line fleet,’ said David Giersdorf,
president of Ambassadors Cruise Group. He said the vessel will
operate on the Columbia and Snake rivers starting in Summer 2007.
RCI schedules Australia/NZ sailings
Royal Caribbean International’s Rhapsody of the Seas will sail a
series of new itineraries to the South Pacific, Australia and New
Zealand as the ship heads for its recently announced Far East
deployment. Three of the five new itineraries on
Rhapsody, sailing Sept. 28, Oct. 15 and Nov. 24, 2007, have been chartered.
With ships returning to the Big Easy, will passenger levels follow?
New Orleans is heralding the return of cruise ships over the next few
months, as three ships will make the Crescent City a home port, but
booking levels appear to be patchy, and many passengers are bypassing
Bourbon Street and Creole fare.
The Norwegian Sun on Oct. 15 was slated to make the first cruise
departure from New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina devastated the
city in 2005 and will embark on a seven-day trip to the western
Caribbean from the new Erato Street Terminal.
Carnival Cruise Lines and Royal Caribbean vessels are soon to follow,
and Princess will make a short appearance in December, as well.
Seabourn places order for two new ships
Seabourn Cruise Line ordered two new ships for delivery in spring
2009 and 2010, representing the small-ship, luxury line's first new
ship order in more than 15 years.
The line signed a letter of intent with shipbuilder T. Mariotti of
Genoa, Italy, for an all-in cost of $250 million each. The two
32,000-ton, 450-passenger ships would more than double Seabourn's
current capacity of 634 berths.
The two new ships would be all-suite vessels, and 90% of the suites
in the new vessels would have full-size balconies, a feature most
Seabourn accommodations now lack.
Norwegian Pearl nearing completion at German yard
The Norwegian Pearl left the Meyer Werft covered building dock in
Papenburg, Germany, on Oct. 15 after completing extensive tests and
engine trials, Norwegian Cruise Line said. The Norwegian Pearl will
remain at the Meyer Werft yard in Papenburg at an outfitting pier for
the remaining work to be completed.
The 93,500-ton ship is scheduled to transit the Ems River to the
Dutch port of Eemshaven on Nov. 4 for sea trials, and then make its
way to Miami for a Dec.16 inaugural sailing.
The Norwegian Pearl will sail nine-day Southern Caribbean and
five-day Western Caribbean itineraries roundtrip from Miami through
April 2007, and will then reposition to Alaska to sail seven-day
itineraries roundtrip from Seattle for the summer before returning to
Miami in September for the remainder of the year.
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