Carnival Corporation today announced it has reached an agreement for the construction of two new cruise ships – a 99,000-ton ship for Holland America Line and a 135,000-ton vessel for Carnival Cruise Lines. A memorandum of agreement has been signed with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri for the construction of a 2,660-passenger ship for Holland America Line […]
Princess Cruises today unveiled additional details about the outdoor entertainment features that will be found on the top deck of the new Royal Princess, including the dramatic SeaWalk, the pool areas, an evening light show and a 30 percent larger Movies Under the Stars poolside theater. “We’re placing even more emphasis on our outdoor entertainment options with […]
It was reported earlier today that the Crown Princess has suffered small electrical fire in one of her passenger cabins. The fire began in one of the passenger cabins and was automatically extinguished by the fire fighting system. This incident occurred as Crown was sailing on the Ionian sea, during a cruise between the ports Corfu and […]
I have just received a text message from a close friend of Mikey’s Cruise Blog that the fire team has been dispatched to the galley on deck 2 of Princess Cruise’s Sapphire Princess. Here is the text from David Brooks of Brooks Cruise Services… Call for the Fire Team to go to the Galley in 2 decks….never a […]
Good afternoon everybody, this is your captain speaking to you from the bridge. It is currently 1400 hours and we are currently sailing at a steady speed of 19 knots with wind coming from the south at 4 mph. Don’t you wish you were hearing that right now? I know I sure am! Anyway, since the […]
Last week while I was at Cruise3Sixty, I had the chance to see 9 cruise ships in at Port Everglades. So every day I headed down to the John U. Lloyd Beach State Park to walk along the Port Everglades jetty to watch the cruise ships sail out of Port Everglades. I had the chance to take a […]
Love, exciting and new. Come Aboard. We’re expecting you. Love, life’s sweetest reward. Let it flow, it floats back to you. Remember these words? These words could be heard being sung on most TV’s throughout America years ago on Saturday nights. The Love Boat debuted on TV in 1977 and really put cruising in the […]
Yesterday, the Ruby Princess of Princess Cruise Line returned to Port Everglades, Flordia with a few passengers who had been infected with Norovirus. Princess Cruise Line has yet to release the actual number of people who were infected, but based on passenger accounts they are thinking around 20 passengers were infected during the 7 night voyage. This […]
First it was Carnival, then it was Holland America — now Princess Cruises has announced it is cutting trips to Bermuda. For the last three years the Caribbean Princess has been a regular caller to the island, bringing in more than 3,000 passengers a time. But next year the Caribbean Princess will make one solitary […]
Good morning/afternoon/evening everyone! I apologize for not writing a blog today, but I have been really tired lately and I have been swamped with school work, so I thought I would share with you one of my older and one of my favorite blog posts, New Ships & Hopes, which can be found HERE. Thanks […]
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