Carnival Cruise Lines will switch the homeport deployments of its 2,124-passenger Super Liners Carnival Legend and Carnival Miracle beginning in spring 2007.
Carnival Legend, which currently sails from New York and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, will be deployed to Tampa to operate year-round seven-day western Caribbean voyages departing Sundays from that port beginning April 15, 2007.
Pearl Seas Cruises, a new offshoot of small-ship operator American Cruise Lines, signed contracts with Irving Shipbuilding in Halifax, Canada’s Nova Scotia, to build two new luxury cruise ships.
According to a statement, Pearl Seas said the two new ships will carry 165 and 210 passengers and would be ready for service in July 2008 and June 2009, respectively. The line also plans to build a third, larger ship, according to company spokesman Jamie Murrett.
Carnival Cruise Lines will switch the homeport deployments of its 2,124-passenger Carnival Legend and Carnival Miracle beginning in spring 2007.
Carnival Legend, which currently sails from New York and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, will be deployed to Tampa to operate year-round seven-day western Caribbean voyages departing Sundays from that port beginning April 15, 2007.
Carnival Cruise Lines’ 110,000-ton Carnival Freedom will operate a nine-day inaugural cruise in March 2007 featuring visits to five ports in Italy, Greece, Croatia and Turkey.
The cruise starts with a March 5 overnight call in Venice and includes daylong stops in a number of destinations in Croatia, Greece, Turkey and Italy.
Alaska cruise itineraries continue in 2007 with Holland America Line. Three Vista-class ships Oosterdam, Zuiderdam, and new to Alaska, Noordam offer more suites than ever before.
Each Vista-class ship features 162 suites in seven categories, plus 461 (479 on the Noordam) Deluxe Outside Verandah staterooms. With 156 total departures and eight ships, there’s ample opportunity to come aboard and embrace Alaska.
Travelers from the U.S. who want to discover Spain’s Canary Islands, an archipelago of seven islands 700 miles off the coast of Africa, can take advantage of the free air, free shore excursions and free hotel nights offer from Peter Deilmann Cruises on sailings in March 2007 on the line’s European ocean liner, the five-star MS Deutschland.
The cruises, six and eleven nights in length, feature not only the well-known islands of Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Lanzarote, but also the lesser-known ones of La Gomera, El Hierro and La Palma, the Portuguese islands of Madeira and the Azores and two cities in Morocco.