October 7th, 2008 | Posted in Royal Cruise Financials | No Comment
By its purpose, a cruise is more than just a travel from place A to place B. A cruise is a vacation in itself. How many times, when you travel by train or by plane, you can say that you had an enjoyable vacation, or that you had spent a royal time? You’d rather describe it as a pleasant trip, that’s all. The vacation starts after you arrive. Well. with cruises, the vacation starts when you get on board of the ship. By the time you arrive at the final destination, your vacation is about to end, and most of the times, this harbor of destination is the same as the departure one.
The largest three cruise operators are Royal Caribbean International, Carnival Corporation and Norwegian Cruise Lines. Despite the fact that the oil price increased significantly over the past year, cruise operators claim they are still going to have a good profit this year. For example, Carnival predicted that in the third quarter of 2008 they expect to earn between $1.56 and $1.58 per share. Usually, on the stock market, royal cruise and the other companies sink together, as it happened in March this year, when shares of Royal Caribbean Cruises and Carnival decreased with 1.6%, respectively 1.3%.
Will a Royal Cruise Still Be Affordable in 2009?
This is hard to predict, if we think that the current crisis America is crossing will probably affect many categories of people. The rich will be tempted to save their money for difficult recession days, the poor will continue to struggle to live and pay the bills while not starving too much. However, there will still be vacations, the average people would still need to relax after one year of work, so there’s a probability that those people would still choose a royal cruise as their main vacation.
The high fuel prices had implications in the whole tourism industry, therefore all touristic packages became more expensive, not only the cruises. Besides, the private islands cruise liners offer to their passengers, with all attractions such as snorkeling, aqua parks, kayaking, parasailing and the possibility to reserve a private cabana on those exclusive beaches will always attract people.
September 26th, 2008 | Posted in Royal Cruise Destinations | No Comment
A Caribbean journey holiday Royal cruise has a great deal to put up to advanced travelers who acknowledge the groovy treasure in visiting the islands. If you wish a holiday that is copious with civilization abounding, quaint architecture, oceans to explore, terrific swimming and snorkel diving, then the Caribbean has it and to a greater extent.
Here, you’ll find a few groovy Caribbean vacation travel Royal cruise offers that are bonded to offer you the fullest value in cruise tripping.
A Seven-Night Stargaze in a Royal Cruise
Aspirations convert to fact while you ascertain yourself drifting through ardent, welcoming waters of the Caribbean on one of various Caribbean vacation travel cruise liners. Savor the sunshine, sand, and surf of a picture-perfect island on brief dry land expeditions in any one of your ports of call and expend the daytime luxuriating in duty-free frequenting, plunging in clear blue waters, or exploring Mayan ruins.
With the approaching of the low temperature seasons, the Royal Caribbean, one of the greatest cruise lines on the islands, is offering a lot of wonderful Caribbean vacation travel cruise offerings to its clients who opt to book early. One of these is the seven-night dream Caribbean vacation travel beginning at $478 per person, the cruise and featuring fabulous inside cabins where you can get excellent views of the dazzling ocean.
The Voyager of the Seas allows you begin your Caribbean vacation travel cruise adventure in Miami, Florida, and making brief stops in Hispaniola, Jamaica, Grand Cayman, and Mexico. The vessel provides you four varieties of room lodging, arraying from $549 to $2,049.00.
The Mariner of the Seas, which sets off from Port Canaveral, Florida and conducts you to 4 different ports of call where you are able to go on little dry land expeditions – Labadee, Haiti; Ocho Rios, Jamaica; George Town, Grand Cayman; Cozumel, Mexico – prior to you cruise back to Port Canaveral in Florida.
Extra midsized boats stand for a roomier and comfy Caribbean vacation travel cruise, with all the overhaul and conveniences you’d anticipate, but no awaiting in long lines for dinner, breakfast, lunch or port of calls. Everything seems to be there just for you, as on some of these ships, you have one staff person for three passengers only.
Three-Night Fascination or Four-Night Fervor: Your Royal Cruise Choice
Few positions on dry land are more contributing to relaxation than the islands of the Caribbean. Maybe, it’s the brightness, tropical airs that mildly comfort the psyche. Or the warm waters and affectionate receptions that expect you on every land. One matter is sure: onboard a Celebrity Caribbean vacation travel cruise, a Caribbean vacation proposes something for everybody.
Merely if you require your Caribbean vacation travel cruise to be brief but becharming, the Caribbean vacation travel cruise proposes various short-circuit cruises for your delight. You’ll discover short Caribbean vacation travel cruises, barely 3 nights long, out of San Juan, Puerto Rico, for as petty as $289 per individual. Not too much, I’d say, what do you think?
Or reckon a little longer, western Caribbean vacation travel cruise, 4 days beginning at $349, on the Enchantment of the Seas. Acquire a four-night Western Caribbean vacation travel cruise aboard the Century for only $330, commencing from Miami, Florida. The cruise supplies you with all the agreeableness you could ever wish from, from shipboard fittings to sea transfer, repasts, drinks, and amusement on board the watercraft.
September 24th, 2008 | Posted in Royal Cruise Fleet | No Comment
This is a follow up of our previous article about Royal cruise ships, which has the purpose of getting you acquainted with the various ship families in the Royal Caribbean cruise company, so you have a better picture of what you can benefit from is such cruises.
Brilliance of the Seas
This ship belongs in the Radiance class. It weighs about 90000 tons and it can accommodate 2500 passengers. The ratio crew-passengers is 1 to 2.9, which means that for a three member family, there’s one person in the staff dedicated fully to your needs and desires. Like her bigger sister, Adventure of the Seas, this ship has a rock climbing wall, three pools, a state-of-the-art fitness and spa center and great dining rooms, bars and cafes. Although it has only 12 decks, Brilliance of the Seas offers the same degree of comfort and the same luxury and leisure possibilities like the bigger ships. It only accommodates less passengers, that’s all. The level of professionalism and comfort stays the same, being representative for Royal cruise lines in general.
Enchantment of the Seas
Weighing about 80,000 tons and welcoming aboard 2446 passengers, this ship was put in service in 1997 and it was fully refurbished in 2005. The points of difference are the expanded pool deck that juts out over the ocean, 151 additional cabins for passengers, four bungee trampolines, two suspension bridge, and the interactive Splash Deck for children. These have been added with the occasion of refurbishing the ship, which has 11 decks, offering all entertainment facilities, theaters, dinig rooms and bars which we are already used to find on a Royal cruise ship. Besides, they offer trained children care staff, so moms and dads can feel young and romantic again.
Explorer of the Seas
This is another Voyager class member, weighing 142,000 tons. 3114 passengers can have a simultaneously great vacation aboard, served by a crew with a ratio of 1 to 2.6, which shows how much Royal cruise lines care about your comfort and relaxation.
Besides the entertaining, fitness and leisure facilities, there’s an internet center, allowing passengers to communicate with their friends and peers all over the world. One can even run an internet business from the deck of this ship, while enjoying luxury and peaceful atmosphere. Whirlpool spas can relax even the most stressed guy out there, you know?
Have you noticed one thing? Regardless the ship class, the level of comfort is high, all ships providing more or less the same facilities for a great vacation on the sea. Did you know that more than half of the people who take a Royal cruise are willing to take another one at least?
