Cruise
Avalon Offers $299 Airfares to Europe
Avalon Waterways is making European river cruising more affordable with special return airfares from Canada to Europe for $299, along with savings of up to $3,000 per couple on sailings. The sale, which applies to select cruises, is in effect between June 7 and July 11 and applies to departures between March 1 and April 30 and June 1 and Nov. 30 next year. Available cruises range from the popular spring Tulip Time cruises in Holland to The Canals, Vineyards and Paris itinerary and include many along the most romantic and historic stretches of the Rhine, Rhone and Danube...
Staying Connected With HAL
Holland America Line (HAL) is adding more ways for its sales team to connect with travel agents through the Facebook and Twitter platforms under the handle HALpartnerSHIPS. Featuring Eva Jenner, Holland America’s vice-president of sales, as well as other members of the trade team, the social media channels provide agents with tips, inside information, guidance for navigating the travel partner portal, instant access to HAL's sales executives and peers, and more. In addition to Jenner, HALpartnerSHIPS Facebook and Twitter pages feature HAL president Orlando Ashford; senior...
Sunwing Introduces NCL Cruises From Montreal
Thanks to a new flight connection between Montreal and Ft. Lauderdale, Sunwing will offer cruise packages with Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) this coming winter out of the Quebec city. Weekly flight departures will begin Dec. 10 and operate through April 15, 2018. Travellers booking one of the tour operator’s cruise packages with NCL will benefit from complimentary port transfers to Miami from where the Norwegian Getaway sets sail each Sunday. The week-long cruises explore some of the best of the Western Caribbean, including such destinations as Roatan, Honduras, and Harvest Caye,...
European Waterways Waives Single Supplement
With the solo traveller in mind, European Waterways is waiving its single supplement on many of its luxury hotel barge cruises for the remainder of the 2017 season. The promotion is applicable to such popular vessels as Anjodi, L’Art de Vivre, Panache, L’Impressionniste, and Renaissance in France, and La Bella Vita in Italy. It is also being extended to Finesse, one of the company’s newest and most luxurious hotel barges, and Spirit of Scotland, which makes its debut in the Scottish Highlands this month. The promotion cannot be combined with other offers. Derek Banks, managing...
NCL Extends Free At Sea Offers
Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) is heating up summer and kicking off the season by extending its “Free at Sea” promotion, which provides cruisers with up to five free onboard amenity offers, through June 30. Plus, for this week only, Norwegian is celebrating Balcony Bonus Week, where guests who book a new five-day or longer cruise vacation in a balcony stateroom or higher by June 12 will receive up to $500 in free onboard spending money. Also exclusive for this week, NCL is bringing guests halfway closer to their next vacation with 50% reduced deposits for all who book a new cruise...
Princess Debuts 2018-2019 Exotics Sailings
Princess Cruises has debuted its 2018-2019 Exotics program which will take travellers around the globe with more than 50 departures, ranging in length from three to 111 days. The diverse deployment includes six ships sailing on 27 unique itineraries throughout five continents, visiting 93 destinations and 47 countries. Guests can book cruises to South America, Southeast Asia and China. In addition, cruisers can experience less-travelled ports aboard the cruise line’s Pacific Princess that will circumvent the globe on a 111-day World Cruise sailing roundtrip from Los Angeles or Ft....
CLIA Opens Cruise360 Registration
Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) has opened registration for its annual Cruise360 conference taking place in Fort Lauderdale April 17-23, 2018, at the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center. CLIA’s 2017 Cruise360 conference, which took place earlier this year in April, welcomed more than 2,000 travel professionals, with travel agents representing nearly 1,100 of attendees. Next year’s event will once again offer CLIA’s professional development and training programs, including CLIA seminars, ship inspections, cruise line showcases, product and...
Celestyal Has Special Agent Offer
Celestyal Cruises is offering agents willing to share a stateroom 50% off when booking its Cuba cruises by June 30 for June, July and August (excluding Aug. 25 and 28) sailings. Those booking and who participate in upcoming Celestyal webinars will receive a $50 Visa Gift Card per booking. Both the 50% offer and the Visa gift card are for bookings made directly with Celestyal Cruises. Webinars dates (all from 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EDT) are as follows: June 6, (https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/928049837); June 7, (https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/887348085); June 13,...