The city of Liverpool is celebrating a record-breaking year in 2016, welcoming more cruise ships to the city than ever before, and bringing in over £7 million. Liverpool Cruise Terminal have released a new video which showcases what it is that cruisers love about Liverpool. Watch it here… In 2016, 114,676 cruise passengers and crew came […]
Hurtigruten to build new hybrid ships for greener sailing
Popular cruise line Hurtigruten has announced plans for new ships which will use the hybrid technology developed by Rolls Royce to reduce emissions by 20 per cent. The revolutionary engines installed in the new vessels will mean that ships can sail using electricity for up to 30 minutes at a time. Two new 530-passenger ships are […]
Carnival’s new ship to be called Carnival Horizon
Carnival Cruise Line have announced that the sister ship to Carnival Vista will be named Carnival Horizon, with the new 133,500-ton ship due to be delivered in March 2018. Look ahead to new horizons with Carnival Carnival Horizon will offer many of the indoor and outdoor dining, bar, entertainment and activity options available on […]
Royal Caribbean sells ship to Thomson Cruises
Royal Caribbean are selling one of their older ships, Legend of the Seas, to Thomson Cruises. The ship will be renamed as TUI Discovery 2 and will join Thomson’s fleet in March 2017. The ship will be all-inclusive and will offer popular facilities such as an outdoor movie screen, rock-climbing wall and mini golf course. […]
Royal Princess in BBC TV show
Cast your mind back to December and you may remember when we shared with you on these pages the news that Princess Cruises’ Regal Princess is set to feature in a new ITV show The Cruise in March. The good news is, you don’t have to wait until then to get a look at life […]
Princess Cruises to sail onto our screens again
Cast your mind back to June last year if you can and you’ll likely remember ITV’s documentary The Cruise Ship, which followed Princess Cruises’ Royal Princess in her maiden season and which shared with us the stories of both crew and passengers. If you enjoyed the show, the good news is that ITV will be […]
New Princess cruise ship getting closer
If you like to keep up with our blogs, you’ll already know that Princess Cruises has a new ship planned for 2017, following hot on the keels of the stylish and feature-packed duo Royal Princess and Regal Princess. Indeed, work is now well underway on the new as yet unnamed Royal Class ship, with her […]
It’s National Cruise Week!
It’s that time of year again! You may well ask ‘what time of year’ but if you like to keep up with our blogs, you’ll already know about Cruise Week as something which happens every year and something which, understandably, gets us pretty excited. For those not in the know, each year, Cruise Line International […]
William Shatner to host first official Star Trek cruise
NCL’s Norwegian Pearl will boldly go where no cruise ship has gone before when it becomes the venue for the first official Star Trek cruise in 2017. In news which is sure to get Trekkies from all over the galaxy rushing to beam themselves on-board, it’s just been announced that there will in fact be […]
Princess Cruises welcomes aboard celebrity chef Curtis Stone
Celebrity chefs are a firm fixture on both our TV screens and bookshelves and are fast becoming one within the world of cruising, too. Princess Cruises has just become the latest cruise line to announce a partnership with a culinary king, in the form of restaurateur, author and TV personality Curtis Stone. Chef Stone will […]