Cruise
Princess Celebrates Dads and Grads
Helping travellers celebrate life’s greatest occasions, from Father’s Day to graduations, Princess Cruises is offering a “Dads & Grads Celebration Sale,” running through June 19. Guests who book a cruise vacation can save up to 35% p.p., plus receive up to $100 onboard spending money per stateroom. More than 100 fall and winter cruises are featured in the sale to destinations in Mexico, Canada and New England, the California Coast and the Caribbean – including voyages on newest ship Regal Princess’ maiden Caribbean season. In addition to special fares, guests booking...
Enhanced Cruise Planner Unveiled
Recognizing that vacation time is precious and that every moment counts, Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises have developed an all-new planning tool that allows guests and/or agents “to seamlessly and intuitively plan all aspects of their cruise vacation quicker and easier than ever before.” The cruise lines have launched a totally revamped Cruise Planner, a tool that makes it possible for all reservations, activities and entertainment to be booked well in advance of departure, ensuring no vacation time needs to be spent on planning. In addition, Royal Caribbean’s...
NCL Launches New Travel Partner Portal
To further support its commitment to the travel partner community, Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) has launched an all new web-based Travel Agent Portal called Norwegian Central, making it simpler than ever for partners to access all of the tools they need to learn about, promote, and sell Norwegian cruises. A key element of Norwegian’s Partners First initiative, the new portal’s main feature is a single sign on, giving partners easy access to Norwegian’s Marketing Headquarters, NCL University, the line’s new booking engine and more, in one centralized, convenient...
Don’t Miss the Boat
There is nothing quite like a Mediterranean cruise in the summer and right now ALBATours is offering some special pricing on a number of its departures, including select sailings in June and July. For instance, travellers can take a 10-day/eight-night Western Mediterranean cruise aboard the MSC Musica for $2,099 plus taxes per person departing June 20, or $2,419 plus taxes per person departing July 18. Pricing includes airfare, a one-night pre-cruise stay in Rome, a seven-night cruise that starts and ends in Rome and travels to Palermo, La Goulette (Tunis), Palma de Mallorca, Valencia,...
Azamara Offers Complimentary Companion Airfare
Azamara Club Cruises is inviting up-market travellers to share a destination-immersive adventure with that special someone by offering complimentary companion airfare when they make a booking in June or July. Whether it’s reveling in the Sambadrome at Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival; enjoying the hospitality of charming European ports and towns where larger ships cannot reach; exploring the bustling metropolises of the Far East; or discovering Australia and New Zealand during Azamara’s inaugural season in the region, travellers have a choice of more than 100 voyages aboard the cruise...
Princess Debuts 2015-2016 Exotics Program
Princess Cruises has debuted its 2015-2016 Exotics program, which includes more than 40 unique itineraries to 140 destinations in 70 countries on six continents. Guests will be able to book cruises to Tahiti and the South Pacific, South America, Australia/New Zealand, Asia and Africa. In addition, cruisers will experience less-travelled ports -- available on the line’s small ships, or circumvent the globe on a 111-day World Cruise sailing roundtrip from North America. Among the highlights of next season’s offerings are the lines’ largest ever deployment of cruises in Australia...
Earn Double the Reward Points with Carnival
Carnival has doubled the amount of reward points travel agents may earn while playing Carnival Adventures, the line’s award-winning social learning game. As part of the game, agents earn Fun Points that are then converted to reward points which are redeemable within the Travel Agent Rewards Program. Prior to June 1, agents could redeem 100,000 Fun Points for 100 Reward Points. Moving forward, agents may redeem 50,000 Fun Points for 100 Reward Points, doubling their earning opportunity. Fun Points are redeemable in 50,000 increments only. “Carnival Adventures is the most...
Norwegian Epic to Sail from Southampton in Fall 2015
Norwegian Cruise Line has announced that Norwegian Epic has added two sailings to and from Southampton, England in 2015, marking the first time that the ship has visited the port since the inaugural celebration in June 2010. Norwegian Epic will sail one six- and one seven-night Iberian Peninsula itinerary. The ship’s six-night sailing will depart Barcelona on Sept. 20, 2015 and arrive in Southampton on Sept. 26, 2015, with ports of call including Cartagena, Spain; Granada (Malaga), Spain; and Lisbon, Portugal. Following a 15-day dry dock in France, Epic will embark on a...