Dear musicians, By now we’re well aware of the fact that airlines love coming up with all kinds of ridiculous charges seemingly by the day. They don’t like to make them easy to find though. ABC have compiled a list of charges that’s really helpful. You can download it here. Celebrity Cruises have recently sent [...]
Dear musicians, The CLIA or Cruise Lines International Association, has posted some more statistics and an overall positive outlook on the immediate future of cruising on their Web site. It’s a long read but don’t worry, I have picked out some of the more interesting tidbits for you.
Dear Musicians, In a previous blog post I wrote about the fact that more musicians apply for cruise ship jobs because they can’t find jobs on land. By now it’s clear that this has created a huge backlog of musicians that can’t get back on ships because the supply is larger than demand and this [...]
Dear Musicians, The economy is down (for those that haven’t paid attention) and the cruise lines are feeling it. Musicians that can’t find gigs on land anymore are flocking to cruise ships for gigs. The combination of both of these facts makes it harder to get gigs on ships. Here are five tips on improving [...]
Dear Musicians, Due to the slow economy a larger than usual number of musicians seem to run out of gigs on land and thus are applying for cruise ship jobs. This means that it’s a bit tougher at the moment to get gigs on cruise ships. Cruise lines have the luxury of picking not only [...]
The smaller tourist vessel MV Ushuaia, owned by an argentinian company grounded on December 4th near Cape Anna in the NW Antarctic Peninsula. All passengers have been transported to safety by vessels that where cruising nearby. During the accident the ship punctured fuel tanks resulting in an oil spill that seems to be contained presently [...]
News of cruise ship attacks by pirates in the waters around Somalia have have been pouring in the last couple of months. An oil tanker has been captured and a ransom is now being paid out to pirates to release the ship with its crew. The cruise ship MS Nautica was attacked by pirates but [...]
Only eight days after Princess inaugurated Ruby Princess, Celebrity held their festivities for their newest ship, Celebrity Solstice. If you’ve been reading this blog, you’re not new to Solstice as we’ve documented its features in several posts. The “lawn club” seems to have drawn quite some attention, and lately some of that has turned negative. [...]
One of the features of Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas is likely to get kids pumped, namely the “Youth Zone”. Check out their video here. Along with “Central Park”, the “Boradwalk” and the amazing accommodations, the gigantic ship is certainly going to attract a crowd.
Princess Cruises is keeping up with the rest of the cruise lines in building new ships at a rapid pace. As Celebrity Cruises is getting ready to put Solstice to work and as we’re awaiting Royal Caribbean’s monster ship Oasis, Princess is getting ready to inaugurate their newest ship, Ruby Princess. The ship has left [...]
From January to April 2010, Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas will be sailing out of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The thriving city of Dubai as well as many destinations in the Arabian Gulf seem to be an attractive market for the cruise line. RCI’s decision comes after they’ve “exceeded their 2008 sales [...]
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmonsperic Administraion (NOAA) issued a new regulation on October 8th, 2008 that will set a new speed limit for large ships to protect whales. Slow moving whales are in danger of colliding with large cruise ships as they come up for air. The new rule was set to protect the [...]