It may be Labor Day Weekend but we’ve still got a show for you this week. It’s a good thing too because there was a lot of cruise news this week.
Crystal announced that they’ve enhanced their onboard music classes in June. However Princess has enhanced their onboard fitness programs and Captains Circle benefits now.
Disney Wonder hosted a Disney Channel television premier and Royal Caribean announced the two newest neighborhoods on Oasis of The Seas.
The weather dominated the rest of the show, and based on the current forecasts it looks like that’s going to be the focus of the entire week. After quickly running down the changes this past week we talk about some of the things you want to keep in mind if you want to cruise during hurricane season.
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Filed under: Crystal Cruises, Disney Cruise Line, Podcast, Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean International Posted by Michael on 08/27/08
Disney Cruise Line will host a red-carpet, world-premiere event for the new Disney Channel original series “The Suite Life on Deck,” a spin-off of the Emmy-nominated “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody,” on the Disney Wonder Aug. 28-31.
During this special premiere at sea, guests sailing will experience a Hollywood-style, red-carpet arrival of some of Disney Channel’s hottest stars, an exclusive sneak-peek of the first episode of “The Suite Life on Deck” and an opportunity to participate in a Question & Answer session with stars of the show. Cast members from “The Suite Life on Deck” scheduled to appear include Cole Sprouse (Cody Martin), Dylan Sprouse (Zack Martin), Brenda Song (London Tipton), Phill Lewis (Mr. Moseby) and Debby Ryan (Bailey Pickett). All events will take place on decks 9 and 10 of the Disney Wonder on Friday, Aug. 29, at the Goofy Pool.
“We’re thrilled to give “The Suite Life on Deck” a fabulous bon voyage celebration aboard the Disney Wonder. The cruise ship setting of the series made the Disney Wonder a great fit to host this event,” said Adam Sanderson, Senior Vice President, Brand Marketing, Disney ABC Networks Group. A day after the world-premiere, and following a day of fun-and-sun on Disney’s private island Castaway Cay, another Disney Channel star will take the stage. Mitchel Musso, star of Disney Channel’s “Hannah Montana” and “Phineas and Ferb” will perform a mini-concert at the Goofy Pool. At the concert’s end, Musso will spend a few minutes answering questions from the audience.
This marks the first time Disney Cruise Line and Disney Channel have partnered together to develop a multi-day event. It should prove to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience for fans of the Disney Channel sailing on the sold-out voyage.
“The Suite Life on Deck” premieres on Disney Channel on Friday, September 26 at 8p.m. ET/PT. In this new live-action comedy series, “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody,” teenage twins Zack and Cody Martin, and spoiled hotel heiress London Tipton, go aboard a luxury passenger cruise liner, the SS Tipton, owned by London’s father, as it cruises the world with tourists and students who attend classes at its Seven Seas High. To his delight, the dutiful Mr. Moseby is reassigned from the Tipton Hotel to be the cruise ship’s hotel manager, but is quickly deflated when he finds out that Zack, Cody and London are onboard too. Joining in the hijinks is London’s new roommate Bailey, a sweet, southern girl who has just left her small town roots to experience a whole new world.
(0) Comments (Leave a Comment)Filed under: Disney Cruise Line Posted by Michael on 08/25/08
This week it was the Carnival Cruise Lines news show with three ships moving and one more getting some revised itineraries.
Carnival Fantasy will be moving to Mobile next year, being replaced by Carnival Triumph in New Orleans. Meanwhile Carnival Holiday will join the Iberocruceros fleet. Carnival Elation’s 3 and 4 day sailings from San Diego are being tweaked as well.
Disney Cruise Line has applied for Glacier Bay access beginning in 2010, and cruise lines have addressed the concerns raised earlier about Ocean Ranger’s access to shipboard operations.
Finally a proposal by the US Coast Guard to revise stability models may cause some passenger vessels to reduce their passenger capacity.
Speaking of the US Coast Guard, this past week I got the rare opportunity to sail onboard the USCGC Eagle the largest and only square rigged barque in US Government service. It’s a cruise of a different sort that we’re talking about this week. Photos from the trip will be up in the photo gallery very soon.
(0) Comments (Leave a Comment)Filed under: Carnival Cruise Lines, Disney Cruise Line, General News, Podcast Posted by Michael on 08/22/08
According to Seatrade Insider (registration required) Disney Cruise Line is among six operators submitting proposals for 10-year Glacier Bay contracts. The contract terms are from 2010 through 2019.
Disney joined Compagnie des Iles du Ponant, Cruise West, Holland America Line, NCL Corp. and Princess Cruises in submitting proposals to the National Park Service.
The contracts will include the initial allocation of a limited number of vessel use days in the peak Glacier Bay season, June through August, of each year of the contract term.
Princess and Holland America legally qualify as ‘historical operators’ in Glacier Bay, giving them the ability to lock up their existing historical permits, which number 71 of the total 153 available permits annually for the next 10-year contract period. Additionally, Princess holds 13 ‘preferential’ entry permits.
HAL and Princess have the potential to maintain 84 of the peak season entries of the total of 153 available.
Dave Nemeth, chief of concessions management for Glacier Bay National Park, said the National Park Service hopes to allocate the permits by year’s end.
(0) Comments (Leave a Comment)Filed under: Cruise West, Disney Cruise Line, Holland America Line, Norwegian Cruise Line, Princess Cruises Posted by Michael on 06/03/08
Discover how easy it is to escape to exotic destinations like the Bahamas, the Caribbean and Disney’s own private island, Castaway Cay. Disney Cruise Line® is offering a reduced deposit offer for any Disney Cruises booked now through June 15, 2008. You will pay a 50% reduced deposit on any sailings Sept. 1, 2008 – Dec. 30, 2009 for Categories 4-12.
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