MSC Cruises will have two ships –the MSC Orchestra and MSC Musica- cruising the Mediterranean this winter, from November 2007 through February and March 2008. These winter cruises will promote relaxation and personal harmony. Rates begin at $1,649 per person, double occupancy, cruise only for a balcony stateroom.
Princess Cruise Lines reinstated ten calls to St. Thomas on the 1,950-passenger Sea Princess, a ship it markets primarily to U.K. passengers, after canceling them due to lengthy immigration procedures.
Casual cruise company Ocean Village is launching two brand-new, seven-night Caribbean, Mexican and Latin American options for its winter season.
The World, a private residence at sea, will begin 2008 along the western coast of Africa, following its New Year’s celebration in the Canary Islands. The vessel begins January in Senegal and continues south with stops in Sao Tome and Principe, Namibia and South Africa.
Seabourn Cruise Line has signed an agreement with Cruise Strategies Ltd. to handle sales and marketing in Canada. Cruise Strategies was recently established by cruise and travel executive Vanessa Lee.
From the Amazon to Antarctica, Peru to Patagonia, Buenos Aires to Brazil, there is no more enjoyable, convenient and comfortable way to explore the impressively diverse and often remote treasures of South America and the world’s most southern waters than by cruise ship. Luckily, 16 member lines of Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) do just that.