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Disney Cruise Line
Nov 17th
Disney Cruise Line Logo
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
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!
Costa Cruise
Nov 1st
Costa Cruise Logo
Costa Cruise (Costa Crociere S.p.A.) is Italian cruise line based in Genoa, Italy. Their slogan is “Cruising Italian Style“, and they offer you high quality service mixing sophisticated and elegant European culture with spirit of Italian people. Costa Cruise offers cruises all around the world, from 7 days and more.
They started in 1800’s, as a transportation company, shipping fabrics and olive oil between Genoa and Sardinia in Italy. Costa Cruise was founded in1924. as Costa Line, and at start they transported people between Italy and South America. Later they became the biggest and (some say) best cruise line in Europe. Now, they are part of Carnival Corporation.
Costa Cruise fleet has currently 14 ships sailing, Costa Deliziosa will start sailing in 2010. and 2 more Concordia class ships are currently built and will start cruising in 2011. and 2012.
Costa Cruise Ship
Costa Cruise Fleet
- Costa Marina (1990)
- Costa Classica (1991)
- Costa Allegra (1992)
- Costa Romantica (1993)
- Costa Victoria (1996)
- Costa Atlantica (2000)
- Costa Europa (2002)
- Costa Mediterranea (2003)
- Costa Fortuna (2003)
- Costa Magica (2004)
- Costa Concordia (2006)
- Costa Serena (2007)
- Costa Luminosa (2009)
- Costa Pacifica (2009)
Joining Costa Cruise fleet shortly:
- Costa Deliziosa (2010)
- Concordia class ship (2011)
- Concordia class ship (2012)
* Cruise Expert is curently building a huge database with all ships descriptions, guides and pictures… check it soon 
Costa Cruise Destinations
Atlantic Ocean and Canary Islands, Canada and United States, Eastern and Western Caribbean, Eastern and Western Mediterranean, Far East, Indian Ocean / Mauritius, Middle East, North Europe and Norwegian Fjords, South America and Transatlantic.
Some more info
Some years ago people didn’t like lots of smokers onboard. Italy made a law, as whole European union which restrict people to smoke in some areas. So now, you can’t smoke everywhere, but if you are a smoker you wouldn’t mind it, because restrictions are not to harsh. You can’t smoke in restaurants and some lounges and bars. There is no ashtrays in hallway, so probably you can’t smoke there too. But everywhere else you can, even in your room 
(if you have a room without windows, don’t be afraid, air conditioning is great). You can ask your cleanser to bring you an ashtray, and if he says that smoking in room is forbidden, just show him a little book which you’ll find on your table (ship rules), which say that if you want to smoke ask your cleanser for an ashtray
Years ago, staff on ship were mostly Italians, and people didn’t like their lack of English skills. Now, staff are mostly people from Philippines, India and South America, and they speak English very good. They are really polite, and they’ll help you in any situation. You have a cleanser works in your and maybe 4-5 more rooms, so every time you leave your room, when you return it will be clean…
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
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