Erica's Cruises

  Norwegian Cruise Line has taken delivery of its brand new Ship Getaway, sister ship to Breakaway that launched last year. It has taken only 15 months to build the 145,465 gross ton Ship. The Getaway will sail from Rotterdam today 13 Jan and travel to Southampton where she will begin…

  Very sad to hear that a 65 Year old Man has gone missing on one of the world’s largest Cruise lines, the man was reported missing my his wife on Tuesday morning just before she docked into Grand Cayman. A full search of Royal Caribbean’s Independence of the Seas…

  Fred Olsen has announced It will offer solo traveller discounts on 38 of it sailings across all 4 of it Ships, the promotion will run for bookings until the end of Feb 2014. The solo discount to be offered ranges from 50 – 75 % discount off selected cabin…

Great news for fans of Thomson Cruises 3 of their ships are to add Balcony Cabins for clients to choose from, Celebration will be adding 26, Majesty 28 and Thomson Spirit will add 19 along with the Dream which already has 6 Balcony staterooms. I must admit I think it…

Celebrity Cruises has launched improvements to its Captains Club loyalty Program. Guest’s comments have helped change the new program, these now include two new, additional levels of status and rewards the existing Elite level, which at the moment with Celebrity is the highest level of membership.   After the 26…

Great news Crystal Serenity is now in dry dock in Spain undergoing her 17 Million pound refurbishment she will be out of service for 9 days whilst the work takes place. I am very excited with the changes that will happen as you know I have just recently sailed on…

It was revealed last week that Venice is to reduce the number of Cruises that sail through the centre of Venice, in the high of summer you can see as many as 9 Cruise ships docked at any one time, and this is to be reduced to maximum of 5…

I am back to work this weekend after a fantastic week off with my 2 boys for half term, we headed to my mums caravan in Ripley for some quality time together, a few days relaxing. Took the boys to Manchester for the night to watch United against Norwich we…

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Crystal Serenity is only one of 2 in the fleet she is due to undergo a 25 million refurbishment programme later in the year that will see some of the areas upgraded, she is 68000 tons and has a max capacity of 1070 passengers and along with 655 crew, she…