
Louis Cruises details its Eastern and Western Mediterranean cruises in its new March 2011-March 2012 brochure. The 60-page publication includes itineraries on five vessels, including the Louis Cristal, Louis Majesty, Coral, Orient Queen and Aquamarine.

Crystal Cruises is offering new bonus savings of $2,000 per couple on penthouse accommodations and $1,000 per couple on verandah staterooms for its March 31 Mexican Riviera cruise when booked by Dec. 31. The 10-day cruise sails roundtrip from Los Angeles.
Oceania Cruises will offer its first South Pacific season during winter 2011-12, a season that will bring Oceania ships to 16 new destinations and 33 new ports.

Windstar Cruises is offering two-for-one cruise fares on select seven-day Caribbean voyages on new bookings made by Oct. 31. Eligible cruises are Wind Surf’s “Sea of Enchantment” voyages departing Nov. 28, Dec. 12, Dec. 19, Jan. 2, Jan. 16, Jan. 30, Feb. 27, March 13 and March 27. This itinerary is roundtrip from Bridgetown, Barbados, and visits St. Kitts, St. Martin, St. Barts, Îles des Saintes and St. Lucia. The two-for-one rates start at $1,379 per person, double occupancy.

MSC Cruises is offering air/sea packages from West Coast gateways for bookings of select balcony accommodations on Caribbean sailings of MSC Poesia that are made by Oct. 15. The packages include roundtrip air from Los Angeles or San Francisco to Fort Lauderdale, airport transfers and select balcony accommodations.

Royal Caribbean International has partnered with Chefmakers Cooking Academy, a cooking school dedicated to aspiring home cooks of all ages, to bring cooking programs to guests aboard the Liberty of the Seas and, beginning this fall, the Freedom of the Seas. The program is available at an additional cost and features more than a dozen classes that are taught in the ships’ galleys.