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Princess Cruises has celebrated the float out of Enchanted Princess from Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy. The float out of a ship is Italian shipyard custom and celebrated by a ‘Madrina’ blessing the vessel and wishing it a safe onward journey, as well as signalling the flow of water into…

From today, Cunard will make its first cinema appearance with their new advert ‘Dreams’ which will appear in every UK cinema before every screening of the new Downton Abbey movie. The advert has been created by Cunard’s retained agency Alpha Century, focusing on the world’s only ocean liner Queen Mary…

Sky Princess set out to sea from a construction dock at Fincantieri Shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy to test the propulsion, steering and navigational equipment. Sky Princess is now back in the shipyard, where she will undergo further exterior and interior finishing in preparation for her 7-day Mediterranean and Adriatic maiden…

On Sunday 1 September Hurricane Dorian hit the northern Bahamas with winds of up to 185mph and battered the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama for two days before moving towards the US. The official death toll currently stands at 30, however, this expected to rise further. The International Red Cross…

Awards season is here, and last night the winners of the British Cruise Awards 2019 were announced at an impressive ceremony at the House of Lords attended by Baroness Floella Benjamin, OBE. Earlier this year we received the news that we’d been shortlisted for two categories in the 2019 British…

The Caribbean Tourism Organisation has launched a hurricane relief appeal after the destruction of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas with the death toll caused rising to at least seven. Cruise lines pledge support to hurricane relief appeal Royal Caribbean has dedicated more than $1 million to Bahamas relief efforts and…

The long-awaited Liverpool cruise terminal has been given the go-ahead. The 10,000 sq.m terminal will span two floors and will be built on a suspended deck on steel piles in the river. A baggage hall will be situated on the ground floor along with a passenger lounge, cafe and check-in…

With the launch of APT’s new Asia 2020 – 2021 brochure, the river cruise line is introducing two new river cruise ships, RV AmaMekong for APT and RV Apsara for APT Travelmarvel. New APT River Cruise Ships RV AmaMekong RV AmaMekong will be a brand new ship on the Mekong…

Hurtigruten, who last week shared they would transform three of their vessels to premium hybrid-powered expedition ships, today announced that one of these ships, the MS Maud to-be, would spend its Winter exploring the Norwegian coast, sailing from the UK. Expedition Norway Hurtigruten’s brand new programme, ‘Expedition Norway’, features all…

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has issued a travel alert for islands in the eastern Caribbean as Tropical Storm Dorian was forecast to hit on Tuesday 27 Aug 2019. Storm Dorian The FCO has amended its travel advice for a string of islands as the Caribbean enters its annual hurricane…