Luxury cruise specialist Crystal Cruises has significantly upgraded its onboard computer network with new state-of-the-art technology and applications that enable guests to optimize their time online with faster connections and quicker downloads regardless of where in the world the ships travel.
Crystal has also undertaken a number of additional steps to upgrade the performance and speed of its shipboard networks, including increasing bandwidth by 33 percent, upgrading components responsible for routing traffic within the ships’ networks, and implementing equipment specially designed to deal with the delays inherent in satellite communication.
(0) Comments (Leave a Comment)Filed under: Crystal Cruises Posted by Michael on 09/24/07
We’re back with a new episode this week and it’s nothing but cruise news. We hadn’t planned on just doing a news episode, but we were discussing the stories we had lined up and just ran out of time.
Speaking of episodes, don’t forget to go back and check out Episode 78 it actually was posted on time but due to a publishing error it didn’t make it into the podcast feed until a week after it was posted.
So what got us talking for so long?
Well, there was the first steel getting cut for Celebrity Equinox, and details about the Solstice Class staterooms can be found here…
The Dutchess of Cornwall will be naming Queen Victoria.
NCL passes on the option for a third F3 ship, announced a contest with Lego, and the Norwegian Gem began her sea trials.
Carnival and M&M’s to partner for Halloween fun onboard Carnival’s ships.
Juneau is looking to build a new cruise ship pier, and Independence of The Seas has been shifted to the wetdock for further fitting out.
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Filed under: Carnival Cruise Lines, Celebrity Cruises, Cunard Cruise Lines, Norwegian Cruise Line, Podcast, Royal Caribbean International Posted by Michael on 09/20/07
Piece by piece, the detail of Cunard Line’s Queen Victoria continues to evolve revealing her magnificent public spaces. The ship’s much-anticipated Queens Room - where guests will dance the night away to the sounds of a live orchestra is seeing a near complete dance floor. It’s also the setting for Cunard’s signature white-gloved afternoon English tea service. Other hallmark Cunard activities to take place here include formal balls, the traditional Captain’s cocktail parties and Cunard World Club events.
The dramatic double-height Queens Room, a loggia-style venue, is reminiscent of a grand ballroom in a large country house, with cantilevered balconies overlooking the ballroom paying homage to the line’s iconic and much-loved QE2. The room’s stunning ceilings feature a pair of gleaming crystal chandeliers as well as specially commissioned murals - by British artists - reinforcing the line’s British heritage.
(0) Comments (Leave a Comment)Filed under: Cunard Cruise Lines Posted by Michael on 09/20/07
Celebrity engaged a panel of five boomer women, identified by the line as “Celebrity’s Leading Ladies,” specially selected for their distinct points of view – a frequent cruiser, a travel agent, a travel writer, a hotelier and a cruise considerer. The women participated in an immersive, fourmonth process led by Synectics, a world-renowned innovation consultancy firm, to make the staterooms onboard Celebrity SolsticeSM among the most spacious and inviting at sea.
Why women? “Women are not only the primary cruise planners; they are the most discerning guests when it comes to the stateroom,” said Celebrity’s Senior Vice President of Marketing, Ellen Taaffe. “Their standards are high and Celebrity is committed to exceeding them, while also creating a great experience for the spouse, family or friends with whom they may be traveling.”
Following several weeks of inaugural activities, Celebrity Solstice will make its maiden voyage December 14, 2008, on a seven-night Eastern Caribbean cruise roundtrip from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., visiting San Juan, Puerto Rico; Basseterre, St. Kitts; and Phillipsburg, St. Maarten. The itinerary will be offered on Sundays through April 5, 2009, with an alternating itinerary calling on San Juan, Puerto Rico; Phillipsburg, St. Maarten; Tortola, B.V.I; and Labadee, Haiti, through April 12, 2009. Fares for veranda staterooms begin at $1,099 per person, based on double occupancy. Call us at 888-286-9827 for more information or to book on board
Click on “more” to learn about the new staterooms
(0) Comments (Leave a Comment)Filed under: Celebrity Cruises Posted by Michael on 09/18/07
In less than a year, Royal Caribbean International’s Independence of the Seas will make her debut in Southampton, England where she will be the largest ship ever to be home-ported in Europe. With her hull now complete, Independence of the Seas, under construction at Aker Yards in Turku, Finland, reached an important maritime milestone today when she was “floated out” - moved from dry dock to wet dock - for the final months of finishing work leading up to her May 2008 debut.
At official ceremonies held at the shipyard, Royal Caribbean executives, Harri Kulovaara, executive vice president, Maritime; Lisa Bauer, senior vice president, Sales, and Captain Hernan Zini were joined by Juha Heikinheimo, president, Aker Yards Cruise and Ferries, and Jykri Heinamaa, Turku Yard Director, Aker Yards, as well as an exclusive group of Royal Caribbean’s travel partners, to turn the valve releasing 87 million gallons of water into the wet dock area.
Independence of the Seas will share the title of worlds largest cruise ship with her sister-ships, Freedom of the Seas and Liberty of the Seas, weighing in at 160,000 GRT and holding 3,634 guests, double-occupancy. In addition to new programs and onboard embellishments yet to be announced, amenities on Independence will include the popular innovations already found on her sister-ships, including the FlowRider surf simulator; the wet and wild H20 Zone aqua park; cantilevered whirlpools suspended 112 feet above the ocean; an ice-skating rink; a boxing ring; and the 1,215-square-foot Presidential Family Suite, which sleeps up to 14.
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