Disney Cruise Line is offering a kids-sail-free promotion for a limited time on select 10- and 11-night Mediterranean Cruises in spring 2010. Guests 17 and under sail free on the Disney Magic when accompanied by two full-fare-paying guests in the same stateroom.

American Cruise Lines has added a new itinerary to its 2010 schedule -- the “Philadelphia and Potomac Cruise,” which will sail between Philadelphia and the Washington, D.C. area.

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. is ramping up its commitment to growing the South America cruise market with the opening of a new office in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the first Royal Caribbean company-owned office in the region.

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. is ramping up its commitment to growing the South America cruise market with the opening of a new office in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the first Royal Caribbean company-owned office in the region.

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. is ramping up its commitment to growing the South America cruise market with the opening of a new office in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the first Royal Caribbean company-owned office in the region.

Fred Olsen Cruise Lines announced that pop singer Lulu will perform in November on one of the line’s first departures from Portsmouth, England. Best known for singing the title song in the 1967 movie “To Sir, With Love,” starring Sidney Poitier, Lulu will perform with the Leo Green band. Green is a noted jazz saxophonist who has played with Van Morrison for 10 years, Jeff Beck, Jerry Lee Lewis and others.