Cruise
Crystal: ‘You Care, We Care’
Crystal Cruises is continuing its "You Care, We Care"program, offering complimentary volunteering excursions on every cruise next year. Goodwill efforts in which passengers can take part in include: St. John, New Brunswick, help sort donated clothing and serve food to refugees and other less fortunate at the Romero House community food kitchen; Cartagena, Colombia: Aid impoverished "barrio"villages via the Granitos de Paz Foundation; Barcelona, Spain: Help protect endangered marine life at the CRAM Foundation for the Rehabilitation and Conservation of Marine Animals....
Buy one, get one free with AMA Waterways
GLP Worldwide, the Canadian representative for AMA Waterways, is offering specials deals on select cruises, including buy one, get one free or up to $400 off (or $800 for a couple sharing a cabin). The buy one, get one free and $400 p.p. offers are valid through Dec. 31 and on new FIT bookings only. Buy one, get one free offers include: Blue Danube Discovery: seven-night Budapest to Nuremberg cruise, departing Nov. 22; Christmas on the Rhine: seven-night Basel to Amsterdam cruise, departure dates, Dec. 13 and 27; Thanksgiving Cruise: seven-night Nuremberg to Amsterdam, departing Nov. 21;...
Variety introduces ‘Sights and Sounds of Cuba’
Cuba awaits with Variety Cruises' new "Sights and Sounds of Cuba"itinerary starting Dec. 21. The seven-night voyage explores the island's history, classic colonial architecture, beaches and landscape by small ship. Canadian passengers can experience Cuba up-close and personal aboard the Panorama three-masted sail cruiser. Renovated in 2009, the ship accommodates up to 49 passengers in 25 cabins. Amenities include two bars, a large sundeck, two lounges, a library and elegant dining room. The swimming platform on the Panorama stern enables guests to swim when weather and anchorage conditions...
Royal Caribbean launching three-day ‘WOW Sale’
Royal Caribbean International has announced that its final WOW Sale of the year will run for three days on Oct. 15, 16 and 17. For all new individual bookings made for a 2013-14 Royal Caribbean sailing, travellers can receive $50 onboard credit per stateroom on three- to five-night itineraries; $100 per stateroom for six- to nine-night itineraries; and $200 per stateroom for 10-night itineraries or longer. Guests can apply their onboard credit toward shore excursions, spa sessions or celebrate a special occasion during their cruise with a specialty dining experience. Vacationers also can...
Encore appointment
Amy Caron has been appointed to the role of product manager for Encore Cruises. Caron worked for Thomas Cook for eight years as the manager of the Call Centre and Operations for CruiseEscapes (now Encore Cruises), then moving on to work in the marketing and loyalty industry. In her new position, Caron will help manage Encore's portfolio of cruise lines, working with suppliers to put together a variety of offers and promotions. Caron is based out of Thomas Cook's Montreal office and can be reached at Amy.caron@thomascookgroup.ca...
ANCHORS AWEIGH: Set sail with Sunwing
It's smooth sailing with Sunwing Vacations with its newly released 2012/2013 winter Caribbean Cruises brochure. Sunwing is once again featuring MSC Cruises' MSC Poesia offering sailings from Ft. Lauderdale. New this season, Sunwing will be offering the Norwegian Cruise Line's (NCL) Norwegian Epic with sailings from Miami, as well as Disney Cruise Line with sailings aboard the Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy from Port Canaveral and the Disney Wonder from Miami. Back for a fourth year with Sunwing, the MSC Poesia sails primarily on two alternating one-week cruises from Ft. Lauderdale. An...
OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Crystal ready for 2014
Crystal Cruises has unveiled, and opened for booking, its full year of worldwide voyages for 2014, as well as itineraries up to mid-April 2015. New seven- to 89-day cruises in 2014 are among the 61 sailings aboard Crystal Symphony and Crystal Serenity, with 16 maiden calls, 194 total ports and 68 countries - including a World Cruise. Early 2015's global calendar offers 15 exotic cruises and a 20th World Cruise, as well as nine maiden calls and a return to ports Crystal hasn't visited in more than a decade. For 2014, UNESCO World Heritage Sites are featured on 54 of 61 cruises (or 89% of...
Record number register for Cruise Vacation Week
With two weeks to go before Cruise Lines International Association's "World's Largest Cruise Sale"during the second annual National Cruise Vacation Week (NCVW), almost 6,800 travel agents and agencies throughout Canada and the US have registered to host more than 5,360 live and online events, topping last year's total by almost 500 registrants. The 25 participating CLIA-member cruise lines continue to provide new special offers to help agents take full advantage of the cruise industry's single-largest consumer promotion. NCVW, from Oct. 21-27, last year generated $55 million in cruise sales...