Tag: cruise line
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CDF Croisières de France
CDF Croisières de France, as the name pretty clearly suggests, is a French cruise line, an enthusiastically French cruise line, in fact. It is headquartered in Paris and is focused almost exclusively on the French cruise market. The language used on board CDF cruises is French, and the cruise line’s website is exclusively in French. (As anyone who deals with multilingual European sites on a regular basis knows, it is pretty rare for a company or institution of even modest size not to have an English version of their website.) So, why write in English about CDF Croisières de France, given that the cruise line evidently has no interest in reaching the English-speaking peoples? Well, there are few different reasons, and we like to leave no cruise line unexplored, so we’ve provided a basic overview of CDF below. Read more […] -
Oceania Cruises: An Overview
Oceania Cruises, sometimes called “Oceania Cruise Line” or just “Oceania,” is a luxury cruise line based in Miami, Florida. It is owned by Apollo Global Management, the enormous American private equity firm that also owns (among many other things) another luxury cruise line, Regent Seven Seas Cruises. Oceania operates four vessels and is the largest luxury cruise line in the world. (Although the word “luxury” is somewhat imprecise, so perhaps a larger cruise line that calls itself “luxurious” – an attractive marketing word – is larger.) Like other luxury cruise lines, Oceania Cruises is less well-known than some of the giants of the cruise industry, so below we shed some light on the company and its cruises. Read more […] -
Repositioning Cruises: Which Cruise Lines Offer Them?
Repositioning cruises serve a crucial function in the global cruise industry, but they are often overlooked. This is at least partially understandable, given that only certain people can realistically take repositioning cruises, and also that cruise lines often don’t explicitly advertise these voyages as “repositioning cruises.” This latter point is important, as it can cause people to operate on the mistaken assumption that not many cruise lines actually offer repositioning cruises. In fact, almost all the major cruise lines, and a number of smaller cruise lines as well, operate repositioning cruises. They have to relocate their ships somehow, and they may as well transport their vessels with lots of paying customers on board. Read more […] -
The Norwegian Breakaway, the Newest Ship in the Norwegian Cruise Line Fleet
Although it sounds like a book about Norway’s declaration of independence (which was actually a dissolution of its union with Sweden in 1905), the Norwegian Breakaway is in fact a cruise ship in the Norwegian Cruise Line fleet with regular departures from New York, all year long. From May to September, it sails to Bermuda, and from October to April it sails to Florida and the Bahamas. It is the newest ship in the NCL fleet, having been built in 2013, although the Norwegian Getaway, which is in the same class as the Norwegian Breakaway (the Breakaway Class), will be put into service soon. Below you will find some basic information about this ship, which as a new ship has garnered lots of attention. Huge new cruise ships like the Norwegian Breakaway aren’t built every day, after all, and the introduction of a new vessel to a fleet can fundamentally alter a cruise line. Read more […] -
Cruise Line Lists
People love lists – lists about all sorts things, things that are far too numerous to, well, list. People especially love lists of anything they are interested in, and so we have investigated lists of cruise lines for our readers. (Presumably, they have an above-average preoccupation with cruise lines). You’ll notice that we just used the word “lists” and that the title of this article is “Cruise Line Lists,” implying that there is more than one list of cruise lines, and this is of course true. One could make a list of only large cruise lines, or one could potentially try to compile a list of every cruise line in the world, although such a task would hinge on what one considers a cruise line, and it would be further complicated by the fact that many cruise lines are now defunct or have been absorbed by other cruise lines. Below we try to make sense of all of this and point you in the direction of some good cruise line lists. Read more […] -
The Cruise Line MSC Cruises
MSC Cruises is a cruise line that is owned by the Mediterranean Shipping Company, an enormous shipping line (the world’s largest, in fact, in terms of container vessel capacity) based in Geneva. The current fleet of MSC Cruises is composed of 11 ships, a small percentage of the 463 vessels operated by the Mediterranean Shipping Company. MSC Cruises has a six percent share of the cruise industry, making it the fourth largest cruise line in the world. Below you will find some basic information about MSC Cruises. Read more […]
