Cruise Hive on LinkedIn: Cruise News Update: Hits Pier, Private Island Tax, Service Charge

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• Amsterdam Confirms Plan to Halve River Cruises
• Loyalty Perks Get Pulled From Three Carnival Voyages
• Cunard Officially Welcomes Queen Anne with Ceremony at Fincantieri Shipyard
• Port Operator Announces Expansion Plans at Caribbean Destination
• Royal Caribbean Orders Another Oasis-Class Ship
• Cruise Ship Collides With Dock at Turkish Port
• Cruise News Update: Royal Caribbean Cancels, Carnival Policy, NCL
• Upside Down Pineapple Meaning on Cruise Ships

Carnival Cruise Line, in the last two years, has promoted three cruise directors to fleet cruise director posts. They are Mike Pack, Chris “Donkey” Salazar, and Chris “The Flying Scotsman” Williams. The 4,000-guest ship continued on its voyage, a 7-night Eastern Caribbean cruise that is due to conclude in Port Canaveral on April 20, 2024. Norwegian Aqua will debut in Southampton in April 2025 and sail a transatlantic cruise to Boston before operating two cruises from Miami.

Amsterdam Confirms Plan to Halve River Cruises

The cruise line will designate separate dining room areas for each of the three options aboard every ship in the fleet, besides Coral Princess and Island Princess. On those ships, reservable and anytime-dining will be combined into one dining room area, due to space constraints. Cruise ship visits and embarkations are set to increase for the three ports, all situated on the Seine River, the gateway to Paris.

Loyalty Perks Get Pulled From Three Carnival Voyages

Guests booked on three cruises departing on July 10, July 17, and July 24 onboard Holland America’s Rotterdam cruise ship have been informed that they no longer need to comply with the testing requirements. As the fifth ship in the fleet, it will operate three- and four-night itineraries to the Bahamas, including Disney’s own private island Castaway Cay. Carnival Pride is sailing a 14-night repositioning cruise from Tampa to Baltimore (now to Norfolk as a temporary homeport), while Carnival Spirit is on a 16-night repositioning from Tampa to Seattle ahead of the Alaska season. In a later social media post, the guest says she was told by crew members that the route change was a directive from the cruise line’s Miami office. An irate guest sailing aboard Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Star is calling attention to an itinerary change she says is ruining her vacation at sea.

Cunard Officially Welcomes Queen Anne with Ceremony at Fincantieri Shipyard

In the meantime, multiple itineraries are being adjusted due to the change in available speed. Impacted guests have reported the sailings departing on August 1, August 8, and August 15 already adjusted, and it is likely that additional sailings may also be impacted if the issues cannot be repaired. After the Norwegian Sun cruise ship hit an iceberg while transiting to Hubbard Glacier on June 25 during a nine-night Alaska voyage, the cruise line has now canceled sailings.

Port Operator Announces Expansion Plans at Caribbean Destination

If unvaccinated guests want to sail on longer cruises, they must apply for a vaccine exemption for 2023. Guests aged five and older must also present a PCR or antigen test taken within three days before departure. Public bookings opened on Tuesday, October 25, 2022, just five days after new details of the ship were revealed, including many of its unparalleled features. Members of the Crown & Anchor Society loyalty program – actually had the opportunity to book the day before, on Monday, October 24. At this time, no other benefits have been restricted for any of these three cruises. Blue (first sailing), Red (second sailing to 24 cruise points), and Gold (25-74 points) passengers have no changes to their benefits, and all other upper tier benefits remain intact.

Royal Caribbean Orders Another Oasis-Class Ship

The guest, who has not been identified, complained to Heald about the steward’s action. All told, the eight new-builds will add 25,000 berths as the ships debut between 2026 and 2036. Along with the ship orders, the parent company also revealed it will develop a bigger pier at Great Stirrup Cay, the private Bahamian island destination.

After that, she will be based in Port Canaveral until August 2025 and then will reposition to New York for the fall 2025 season. Loyalty club guests on three upcoming Carnival Cruise Line voyages will not receive some of the perks and services they normally do, according to an email alert they received. Sun Princess launched in February 2024 with the three-choice dining plan in place.

Cruise News Recap: Carnival Tampering, Dining Changes, Evacuation - Cruise Hive

Cruise News Recap: Carnival Tampering, Dining Changes, Evacuation.

Posted: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 14:24:26 GMT [source]

Cruise News Update: Royal Caribbean Cancels, Carnival Policy, NCL

Stay updated on cruise ships, ports, policy changes, deals, and anything else impacting cruise lines and your vacation at sea. Here’s your cruise news update in what was another busy week in the cruise industry. The latest developments on some new vessels and the ongoing coverage after a Norwegian cruise ship hit an iceberg.

Even when the new Rotterdam begins sailings out of Fort Lauderdale this weekend, guests will enjoy fewer requirements. After that first cruise, the ship will offer alternating 7-night Eastern and Western Caribbean sailings, with the western cruises visiting Honduras, CocoCay, and two ports in Mexico. That maiden voyage is a 7-night Eastern Caribbean roundtrip sailing from Miami, visiting St. Kitts, St. Thomas, and the cruise line’s private destination in The Bahamas, Perfect Day at CocoCay. The impacted cruises are all longer Carnival Journeys voyages, which often have such benefits curtailed due to the logistics of having higher-than-typical numbers of high-level loyalty passengers aboard.

The changes affect Holland America’s “Standard Protocols,” which apply to most cruise ship departures. There may be different requirements for charter sailings, Canada and Australia cruises. Guests can check which protocols apply to them by using the cruise line’s Health Protocols Tool.

Posting videos on TikTok using the name “ruinedvacation,” the woman’s complaints have attracted more than 3 million views. Guests booked on the cancelled cruise are receiving a full refund of their cruise fare and all pre-paid services. The line also is offering a 50% future cruise credit for any future Princess Cruises sailing booked by November 30, 2024 and sailed by December 31, 2025. Boston will be the seasonal homeport for summer sailings to Canada aboard Brilliance of the Seas, while Baltimore will continue to host Vision of the Seas on a year-round basis.

Carnival Cruise Line has reached out to guests at the highest levels of the past passenger loyalty program, alerting them that some of their benefits are unavailable for specific sailings in April 2024. Royal Caribbean opened for sale a slew of 2025 and 2026 cruises to the Caribbean and Canada/New England from a wide choice of ports. Bookings for voyages onboard seven ships opened to Crown & Anchor Society members on February 14, 2024 and to the general public a day later. The video does not confirm which cruise ship the guest was sailing on, but it is a Carnival Cruise Line vessel. While the date of the filming is unknown, one clue is found in the price of the 1.5-liter bottle.

The video shows the price as $4.25, but the line raised the cost of that size bottle to $4.50 in December 2023, so presumably, the tampering happened sometime before then. Royal Caribbean International has been reaching out to guests on multiple upcoming sailings of Quantum of the Seas, advising them of engine troubles leading to itinerary changes that include shortened port times and route alterations. These are not the only Eastern Caribbean cruises Mardi Gras is sailing, however, but other departure dates have not yet been affected. The remaining Eastern Caribbean sailings still include San Juan on the itinerary. Also included in the simplified “Standard Protocols” are Panama Canal transits up to 15 nights long. New ships such as Nieuw Statendam out of Fort Lauderdale in Florida and Koningsdam out of San Diego are also part of the more straightforward procedures.

Carnival Ship Rescues 27 People Adrift at Sea in the Caribbean - Cruise Hive

Carnival Ship Rescues 27 People Adrift at Sea in the Caribbean.

Posted: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 00:14:53 GMT [source]

It’s easy to stay on top of the big cruise headlines of the week with Cruise Hive, a leading source for cruise news and features. In 2023, global cruising attracted 2 million more guests than in 2019, a 7% increase, and the outlook for 2024 is equally as positive, with a prediction for the total number of cruise guests to reach 35 million. A search continues in and around Cozumel, Mexico, for a guest missing since April 3, 2024 from Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas. The ship was docked at the port call when guest Brad Solomon debarked the ship with his family and later became separated from them. When construction is complete, the coins will be removed and positioned on the finished vessel, to continue bringing luck to her crew and all who sail on her in the years to come.