Carnival Funnel For the full history behind Carnival’s funnel, skip ahead to 23:28 in my recent interview I conducted with Joe Farcus, the designer of the Carnival funnel. Costa Funnel Costa’s funnel features the colors gold and blue, each with a unique symbolism behind their colors. Costa Cruises was founded in 1854, originally operating cargo ships around the […]
Nowadays, many of the major cruise lines offer various beverage programs for their guests. Below is a rundown of the major cruise lines and their various beverages packages and programs. Carnival Cruise Lines Cheer’s – Offers guests 15 drinks a day including beers, wines, non-alcoholic cocktails, and soft drinks. Price: $49.95 per day. Bottomless Bubbles […]
Celebrity Millennium Update (Updated on 8/20 at 5:00pm) Original article: Click Here Statement from Celebrity Cruises: Our engineers, along with expert consultants from the motor’s manufacturer, and our Marine Operations team in Miami, have continued working around the clock to resolve the mechanical issue onboard Celebrity Millennium. Together, they have been doing everything they can to […]
The Celebrity Millennium is currently experiencing a mechanical problem with one of its propulsion units. In a statement sent to Cruise Currents by Celebrity Cruises, the mechanical problem and its expected impact is further explained: “Due to a mechanical problem in one of Celebrity Millennium’s two propulsion units, the ship returned to Ketchikan last night. The ship […]
A problem with one of the Celebrity Millennium’s two propulsion motors caused the ship to show up in its disembarkation port, Seward, hours after her scheduled arrival time. The problem became apparent on the final day of a northbound Vancouver to Seward sailing. According to Celebrity, the problem with the propulsion system will need to […]
According to members on the Cruise Critic message board, a group of guests onboard the Celebrity Eclipse were robbed at gunpoint earlier this week while in St. Lucia. A group of guests were apparently on a Celebrity sponsored shore excursion when three masked gunmen approached their group and demanded that they hand over all of their jewelry, […]
According to reports as well as a statement from Celebrity Cruises, the Celebrity Millennium is currently experiencing an electrical issue that is affecting the ship’s propulsion. Celebrity Cruises has confirmed that engineers onboard are currently working to resolve the problem. Unfortunately the reduction in speed will alter force the ship to alter its itinerary. Here is the […]
Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. today announced that Michael Bayley has been promoted to President and CEO of Celebrity Cruises, replacing Dan Hanrahan, whose departure was recently announced. Bayley will report directly to Richard D. Fain, Chairman and CEO of Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. Bayley has been with Royal Caribbean for over 30 years, most recently as Executive Vice President of Operations. Bayley started […]
Last week we reported on a overboard on board Celebrity Cruises’ Celebrity Summit. (You can read the full story HERE.)We have recently learned new information through a comment left on our blog from a passenger who was on that cruise. She says… I was on this ship last week and the woman jumped/fell a few minutes after midnight. The boat […]
On Sunday we received emails inquiring about a Celebrity crewmember who went overboard from the Summit cruise ship. The Summit was sailing from San Juan, Puerto Rico, where it is currently based, to Barbados when the cruise employee disappeared. At the time we had no information. Today the U.S. Coast Guard issued a statement that the missing crewmember is a Filipino woman, age thirty, employed as a […]
The Centers for Disease Control (“CDC”) report that 118 of the 2,730 passengers aboard the Celebrity Solsticecruise ship have reported to the ship’s medical facility with vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms of gastrointestinal illness. The Solstice is currently on a 14 day cruise and will return to Fort Lauderdale on December 11, 2011. Pursuant to the CDC Vessel Sanitation Program, environmental health officers and an epidemiologist will board […]
The Virgin Islands Daily News reports today that the U.S. Coast Guard continues to investigate the fatal parasailing accident in St. Thomas which killed a Celebrity Cruises passenger and seriously injured her daughter on November 15, 2011. We discussed this incident in our article Celebrity Cruises Passenger Killed in Parasailng Accident in St. Thomas. The incidents resulted in the death of Bernice […]