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  • Celebrity Cruises Gets Personal with Enhanced Concierge Service

    Celebrity Cruises has introduced a new “Personal Concierge” program aimed at further enhancing the brand’s “Designed for you” reputation, by emphasizing the extraordinary customized onboard service that has long set Celebrity Cruises apart from its competitors. By individually communicating with guests to learn their personal preferences, tastes and needs, Celebrity’s new Personal Concierges deliver individualized attention – much like that of a personal assistant – for any guests who wish to heighten special occasions and create new ones.

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  • Cunard Announces the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Company

    When Cunard Line’s new Queen Elizabeth debuts in October 2010, the Line will introduce an original concept in theatrical entertainment at sea with the newly formed Queen Elizabeth Theatre Company. Guests will enjoy a brand new repertoire of shows premiered by the Theatre Company’s 29 singers, dancers, actors and musicians.
    New shows will include the hit “Slice of Saturday Night,” a popular nostalgic pastiche of 1960s music which has been staged in London and toured extensively throughout the UK and US. Adapted especially for the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Company by its original writers, the Heather Brothers, “Slice of Saturday Night” features all of the Theatre Company members – the largest production show that Cunard has ever staged.

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  • President's Message – The New Bucket List

    In Rob Reiner’s film The Bucket List, Jack Nicholson’s and Morgan Freeman’s characters meet in a crowded hospital room, having just been diagnosed with terminal illnesses and prognoses of less than a year to live. The two become unlikely friends, and set off together to climb the Pyramids, traverse the Great Wall of China, safari in Africa, and share all the things on their list before they “kick the bucket!”
    With respects to legends Reiner, Nicholson and Freeman, and to those who have actually lived out final year bucket lists, I have to argue that this is the ‘old’ way about a Bucket List! The New Bucket List concept is quite different … and it’s ageless! First of all, very few of us are given one year’s ‘advance notice’ on our life expectancy, and then also have the time, resources and health, to knock off a list of 20 worldly pursuits in under a year.

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  • Norwegian Cruise Line Partners With SVEDKA Vodka on First True Ice Bar At Sea

    In another first, Norwegian Cruise Line has announced an exclusive partnership with SVEDKA Vodka and Inniskillin ice wine to be introduced on board Norwegian Epic, its largest and most innovative Freestyle Cruising ship ever. As part of the partnership, this unique frozen bar will be called the SVEDKA Ice Bar and will feature specialty SVEDKA and Inniskillin ice wine drinks.

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  • Oceania Cruises Announces 'Pillars of Distinction' Fleet Updates

    Oceania Cruises has launched a multi-million dollar initiative to update and enhance its award-winning fleet. The comprehensive “Pillars of Distinction” program – the most significant product investment in the company’s history – centers on the three hallmarks of the Oceania Cruises experience: comfort, cuisine and service.
    The 684-guest Nautica, the first Oceania Cruises ship to undergo its Pillars of Distinction update, re-entered service June 4. Sister ship Insignia will incorporate Pillars of Distinction this November and Regatta in January 2011. All work will occur during regularly scheduled dry-docks.

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  • The Cruise Web Gathers for Bowling Night

    On Friday, June 11th The Cruise Web celebrated the end of another hard work week with some bowling action. The company met at Annapolis Bowl in Maryland and promptly kicked-off the friendly competition. Pins rattled, players cheered and everyone had a great time.
    Michael Harris, Manager at The Cruise Web, had this to say about the event: “The star of the night was The Cruise Web’s Senior Manager, Chris Roth, who broke the 250 mark. He was also the clear winner of the pizza eating contest, where Chris not only ate the pizza at his table, but moved on to a few other tables as well.”

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  • The Cruise Web Named To Ensemble Travel Group's "Top 25"

    The Cruise Web, headquartered in Landover, has been honored with the “Top 25” award from Ensemble Travel Group, one of the travel industry’s oldest and most respected affiliated travel agency organizations. The honor was presented to less than six percent of Ensemble Travel Group’s 425+ member agencies in the U.S. Selection criteria was based on members’ 2009 sales performance with Ensemble Travel Group’s preferred suppliers.

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