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Vacation on a Cruise Ship
Nov 3rd
All cruise ships are rated on a scale with 100 points. Every ship needs to have a score bigger than 86 out of 100. Cruise is a great place for your next vacation. Lots of parents would take a cruise alone, but they don’t know that on every ship there is section for children, and that they can leave them there. Children will have a great time there everyday. If you don’t like cruise ships after watching Titanic movie, you probably aren’t informed enough. Every cruise ship is equipped with life jackets, life boats, doctors, firemen and lots of emergency personnel while cruising.
Cruise ships are like hotels, but on water. They offer everything a 5 star hotel could offer you. You go there to relax and enjoy while lying on the sun, swimming, or just relaxing while watching beautiful sea. All cruise lines have strict environmental regulations which they must follow, so sewage and waste water from showers and sinks don’t end up in sea.
Every passenger has a life jacket in his room, and every passenger has assigned life boat in case of an emergency. Capacity of lifeboats exceeds number of passengers and crew on a cruise ship. Statistically speaking, cruises are safer places than regular hotels. Fires or any type of crime is happening more often in regular hotels. All ships have rooms with satellite TV and phone, and in some cases internet.
Did you maybe heard somethin about cruise ship dining, and you didn’t believed it? Well, it’s true. Food is fantastic. At every single meal you’ll get big choice of appetizers, salads, soups, vegetables, main courses and desserts, and each day menu will be different.
So as you see, we highly recommend to take a cruise for your next vacation, and we are 100% sure that you’ll have a great time, maybe even the best time in your life!
MSC Cruises
Nov 1st
MSC Cruises Logo
MSC Cruises (part of Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. – MSC) with headquarters in Naples, Italy, was founded in 1987. Before that, in 1960’s Achille Lauro founded a cruise line called Lauro Lines, from which MSC Cruises were born. In that era, there were only two ships operating – Angelina Lauro and Achille Lauro. Unfortunately, you can’t go on a cruise with either of these two, since they both sunk. Achille Lauro sunk in 1996. near coast of South Africa because of a fire (all passengers were saved).
Their biggest competitor is Costa Cruises, since both of them are in Italy. Few years ago, Costa Cruises was bought by Carnival Cruises, and since then, Costa plan and construct their ships with much similarities to Carnival Cruises. On the other hand, MSC Cruises are making and designing their own ships. They made a huge breakthrough in 1990s for organizing low cost but high quality cruises.
MSC Cruises Fleet
- MSC Armonia
- MSC Sinfonia
- MSC Lirica
- MSC Opera
- MSC Musica
- MSC Orchestra
- MSC Poesia
- MSC Fantasia (Flagship)
- MSC Splendida
- MSC Melody (previously called Melody only)
Ships under construction:
- MSC Magnifica (2010)
- MSC Meraviglia (2011)
- MSC Favolosa (2012)
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MSC Cruises
MSC Cruise Destinations
Their main terrain is of course Mediterranean, and some of their stops are: Italy, Greece, Malta, Canary Islands, Croatia, Portugal, Morocco, Spain, Istanbul and even the Ukraine. There are more and more cruises in Northern Europe…
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Interesting thing to know is that Sophia Loren, famous actress was a godmother ta all MSC ships which are made after MSC Lirica.
On all MSC Cruises ships strong Italian-influenced ambient is present. They mainly sail in Mediterranean, so their passengers are mostly from Europe. There is more and more people from UK and Ireland every day. On MSC Cruises in Caribbean, more than 90% people is from USA. All announcements on ships are spoken in Italian, French, Spanish, German and English language.
Italian food and good wines are one sure thing on MSC Cruises.
Celebrity Cruises
Nov 1st
Celebrity Cruises Logo
Celebrity Cruises – founded in 1988, later in 1997 merged with Royal Caribbean International. Headquarters of Celebrity Cruises is in Miami, Florida. They were founded by a Greek company, so the X in their logo is the Greek letter chi, for “Chandris”. On Celebity Cruise ships you can find large swimming pools and lounges, aft-glass dining rooms, libraries, elegant spas and gyms, lots of restaurants, great balcony and suite rooms…
They make big ships, but breaking myth that luxury and prestigious cruises must have smaller ships with small number of passengers. They managed to build good planned ships, so even when ship is full, it seems like half empty, as there is no crowd or lines.
Celebrity Cruises Ship
Celebrity Cruises Fleet
- Celebrity Century
- Celebrity Mercury
- Celebrity Millennium
- Celebrity Infinity
- Celebrity Summit
- Celebrity Constellation
- Celebrity Xpedition
- Celebrity Solstice
- Celebrity Equinox