Cruise News

An advanced new `Infotainment’ system, which even gives passengers free access to a Google map tracing the route of the ship, has been installed by award winning river cruise line AMAWATERWAYS.

Cape Verde Islands, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo would be nothing more than places in an atlas for most cruise travellers.

Caribbean Cruise Line (http://www.caribbeancl.com/) plans to begin service to the Bahamas out of the Port of Palm Beach starting March 15. With its new flagship, the Bahamas Celebration, Caribbean Cruise Line will be the first multi-day cruise line to operate out of the port since 1966, according to port officials.

Swan Hellenic’s dedicated 2010 River Cruise programmes are now fully sold out. Trips around the Danube, Rhône and Rhine are now employing a waiting list – dependent on cancellations – for anyone wishing to book a Swan Hellenic river cruise this year.

P&O Cruises is offering its largest ever cruise programme next year, including fly-cruise holidays to the Mediterranean on new small ship Adonia joining the fleet in May 2011 and the first full year of cruising for 3,100 passenger ship Azura.

The third of five in Celebrity Cruises’ stylish, $3.7-billion Solstice Class fleet, Celebrity Eclipse today made her first departure from the innovative Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany, to embark on what is very likely to be the most challenging ride of her life: an event known as the “conveyance.”

Travelling through 40-45 metre-wide locks normally reserved for canal boats, and on aqueducts over an autobahn (motorway), several roads and railways - all backwards and early in the morning - is just the first day of work for new 2,850-guest ship Celebrity Eclipse.

Princess Cruises has unveiled its most extensive Europe season ever for 2011, with more ships, departure choices and itinerary options than in previous years. In total, seven vessels will offer 42 itinerary choices, including seven new routes, with calls at more than 135 ports.

Cruise West (www.cruisewest.com), the world’s leading provider of small-ship explorations to the most fascinating destinations on earth, ventures to rugged and mysterious Patagonia in 2011 with four departures aboard the spacious 64-cabin mv Via Australis

While some travelers yearn to look refreshed from their vacations, Crystal guests can actually return home with a head-to-toe makeover.