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  • Royal Caribbean Expands Options For Stress-Free Family Vacations

    Royal Caribbean International has announced new fleetwide programming for cruise vacationers, expanding services and activities that cater to families with children as young as six months old. The new program includes enhancements to Royal Caribbean’s award-winning Adventure Ocean youth program, which will help families traveling with children enjoy a fulfilling and stress-free vacation. As a leader in innovative family vacations, Royal Caribbean provides enriching and entertaining programs that appeal to children of all ages, while providing options for parents and grandparents that contribute to a more carefree family vacation.

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  • Norwegian Epic Takes A Bow

    Norwegian Epic’s construction, underway at STX Europe in St. Nazaire, France, celebrated a milestone this month, when the ship’s bow was lowered into place. The bow, known as block 642, weighed 445 tons and measured 85 feet long, 108 feet wide and almost 30 feet high. The process of putting the bow in place took 100 workers about two hours. This significant step represents the completion of the lower part of the steel hull, those areas that come in contact with the sea, and indicates that only the superstructures, or topsides, remain to be finalized.

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  • Holland America Debuts Explorations Book Club

    An enriching new book club program will debut on Holland America Line’s sailings of 14 days or more starting in May 2009. As part of the cruise line’s ongoing Signature of Excellence initiative, the Explorations Book Club will launch with the popular novel “Like Water for Chocolate” on the Panama Canal ms Veendam sailing. Book club gatherings will be implemented on select sailings of 14 days or more starting in the fall, with a different novel selected for each itinerary.

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  • What is a Royal Caribbean Cruisetour?

    Courtesy of Royal Caribbean Cruisetours offer the best of land and sea vacations by combining your Alaska, Europe, Australia/New Zealand, Asia and South America cruise with an exciting land tour adventure. And as anyone who’s traveled before knows, coastal areas are beautiful, but some of the most interesting cities and sights are often inland. On […]

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  • Royal Caribbean now offering Orlando Packages

    Torn between going on a cruise and visiting a family destination in Orlando? Now you can do both! Book a 7 or 10/11-Night vacation adventure. Combine a 3/4-Night Bahamas or 7-Night Caribbean cruise out of Port Canaveral with a 3- or 4-Night stay at Universal Orlando Resort for the ultimate family vacation. You get the […]

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  • Norwegian Epic: The Only Tube and Largest Bowl Slide at Sea

    Courtesy of Norwegian Cruise Line Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) revealed another industry first to debut on its next generation of Freestyle Cruising ship, Norwegian Epic, which will include an expansive Aqua Park with the only tube slide and largest bowl slide at sea — The Epic Plunge. The line also unveiled seven decks of Freestyle […]

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  • Meet the new Celebrity Equinox

    Celebrity Equinox, one of the newest ships to sail in Europe, meets “Ancient Empires” on 13-night voyages from August 18 through October 23, 2009, roundtrip from Rome (Civitavecchia), with visits to Naples/Capri; Athens (Piraeus) and Rhodes, Greece; Ephesus (Kusadasi), Turkey; Haifa and Ashdod, Israel, and Alexandria, Egypt. Celebrity Equinox also will present a 10-night “Best […]

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