Cruise Activities For 2011: Changes To Expect

Cruise lines are currently promoting their cruise activities slowly for the upcoming winter season, but it does not mean those plans cannot change.
A number of cruise lines have been noticed to make some last minute revisions to their winter cruise itineraries for 2011. Here are some of them:

* Celebrity Cruises informed that their ships would leave from Baltimore for 2011. However recently, they cancelled their Baltimore plans and announced their ships will now have Australian itineraries. Cruise companies are trying to follow market demands, thus the quick changes in plans.

* Celebrity Cruises plans on offering three more 12-night round trip journeys with focus on different ports of call. These new cruise itineraries will allegedly be offered for September and October 2011. Celebrity’s Constellation will expectedly sail all three cruises. The trip will begin with an overnight stay in Istanbul then will go ahead to sailing for Bo drum, Ephesus and Marmaris in Turkey. Then it will also call on Athens, Chania Crete, Santorini and Mykonos in Greece.

* In addition, Constellation will also go on a 12-night voyage from Amsterdam to Istanbul on September 7, 2011. It will then go on a repositioning cruise on October 25 from Istanbul going to Barcelona on an 11-night journey. If you would like more details on these cruises, simply go to Celebrity’s official website at www. Celebritycruises.com.

* Princess cruises will be putting up trips to Asia next year. Ocean Princess, in particular, will sail from Rome to Singapore on a 28-day voyage on October 25, 2011. The ship will shortly visit Sorrento, Kusadasi and Athens to pick up passengers then it will continue to the Suez Canal then continue to El Sheikh, Dubai, Aqaba, Safaga, Mumbai, Muscat, Kuala Lumpur and Cochin.

* Brilliance of the Seas, a ship owned by Royal Caribbean will start cruise to Dubai in January 2011. Extra winter season cruises are considered and will start on November 2011 in United Arab Emirates.

* Royal Caribbean will also add two 12-night voyages starting March 2011. The trip will begin in Dubai then will continue to Muscat, Oman, Goa, Cochin and Mumbai. It will also visit Mangalore Port in western part of India. Repositioning cruises are also featured from Barcelona to Dubai and vice versa on board Brilliance of the Seas.

* Carnival Magic will return in Europe summer of next year. Carnival Magic is sister ship to Carnival’s Dream. It will sail both nine-day and 12-day cruises out of Barcelona. Nine-day ports of call include Florence or Pisa, Monaco, Rome, Messina, Naples, Marseille and Palma de Mallorca. On one hand, 12-day cruises will visit ports in Rome, Livorno, Marseille, Messina, Naples, Dubrovnik and an overnight stay in the beautiful Venice.

* Norwegian Epic will also sail from Caribbean to Barcelona for summer next year. The trip will offer seven-day cruises with stopovers in Rome, Naples and Florence or Pisa.

At this time, 2011 cruise activities have already been formed but it does not mean that all these plans will push through. It will still depend mainly on the demands in the cruise industry.

By: Mae M.

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