Porthole Cruise News Briefs – Mar. 20, 2015

Porthole Cruise News Briefs

Mar. 20, 2015

 

• Uniworld launches its Super Ship S.S. Maria Theresa later this month. Early photos show over-the-top décor for the “floating palace on water.” Empress Maria Theresa herself appears in a 10-foot-high painting in the grand lobby.

 

• Carnival Sunshine will debut a series of cruises from New York, Charleston, and Norfolk in 2016.

 

• AmaWaterways has signed a deal with active tour operator Backroads for bike-river vacations. The program starts on the Danube River this year and extends to the Rhine, Rhone, Seine, Douro, Garonne, and Mekong rivers in 2016.
  

 

• Windstar Cruises named veteran travel writer Wendy Perrin as godmother for the upcoming Star Breeze. The small-ship line also announced it will return to the island of Montserrat on new Caribbean itineraries next year.

 

• Royal Caribbean International is positioning Explorer of the Seas in Alaska next year, where it will be the largest ship to sail in the region.

 

— Fran Golden

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^{Photos: Uniworld, Windstar Cruises}

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