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Disney Cruise Line
Nov 17th
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Disney Cruise Line is a cruise line owned by – can you guess 
– The Walt Disney Company. Their headquarters are in Celebration, Florida. Their main goal is to have luxurious, elegant and “family friendly” cruises.
Disney Cruise
Disney Cruise Line operates with two ships – Disney Magic (built in1998) and Disney Wonder (built in1999). Disney cruises have a exclusive port of call – a private island in Bahamas called Castaway Cay. Each sip have 875 guest rooms, which have similar design, lots of restaurants and places to have fun. Not only for children, but for the whole family. Time on ship is adjusted for babies, young kids, teens, and adults, so everyone will have a great time. In the end, they are classified as luxury cruise line. Thing different from other luxurious cruise lines is that Disney Cruise ships don’t have casinos onboard. They also don’t have libraries (like anyone read books on such great vacation).
In near future, this cruise line will make two more ships. Disney Dream (will be finished in 2011) and Disney Fantasy (2012). Both of them will have a capacity of 4.000 passengers, or if you like this number better, there will be 1.350 rooms.
Disney Cruise Ship
Cunard Cruises
Nov 8th
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Cunard Cruise Line – part of Carnival Cruise Line Corporation, was founded in 1840 by Samuel Cunard. Cunard got a deal with British government to transport Royal mail from Britain to America. In 19th century, Cunard was building bigger, better, faster and luxurious ships. In 20th century, Cunard wanted help from Britain’s government to build the biggest AND fastest ship in the world. They agreed and helped the company, but in return, Cunard must permit their ships to be used as armed merchantmen in time of war. They made two new ships, Mauretania and Lusitania, which were bigger then the largest ship in the world by one third.
In newer history – 1998. Cunard became part of Carnival corporation (for a small fee of US$500 million).
In their long history, thay had more than 50 ships, but now there are only 2 in service.
Cunard Cruises Fleet
- Queen Mary 2 (2004)
- Queen Victoria (2007)
- Queen Elizabeth (building)
Cunard Cruises Ship
Crystal Cruises
Nov 1st
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Crystal Cruise Lines – usually called Crystal Cruises is a cruise line with two ships in their fleet – Crystal Symphony and Crystal Serenity. Capacity of Crystal Symphony and Crystal Serenity is approximately 1000 passengers each. Cristal Cruises company was founded in 1988., headquarters are in Los Angeles, and owner of this cruise line is Japanese company Nippon Yusen Kaisha. More than 70% of passengers on this cruise line are comeing from the USA, and big majority of them is from California. Their luxury ships are on some guides rated in top 20 of all currently cruise ships.
The line offers Caribbean cruises, Mexico cruises, Mediterranean cruises, Australia & New Zealand cruises, Northern European cruises, New England & Canada cruises and Panama Canal cruises. Each year Crystal Cruises also offer a World cruise on Crystal Serenity ship, which lasts about 110 days.
They have really good and deserved reputation for dining onboard. They are also famous by their wine cellars, sushi bars… Their programs for children aren’t as good as Disney Cruise or similar, but in a luxury category of cruise lines they are one of the best in that field.
Crystal Cruises Fleet
- Crystal Symphony (1995)
- Crystal Serenity (2003)
Crystal Cruises Ship