Norwegian Cruise Line’s new 4,000 passenger ship, Norwegian Breakaway, will sail from her year-round homeport of New York City to the Bahamas & Florida and the Caribbean during her inaugural winter season. The 144,037-ton ship will enter service in April, 2013.
Following a summer inaugural season sailing seven-day cruises from [...]
04 January
Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Gem responded to a call from the US Coast Guard who had received a distress notification from Sanctuary, a 39-foot sailboat, stating that they had large breaking waves over the bow, had lost power and its life raft, and were taking on water. Sanctuary was located [...]
29 October
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Norwegian Cruise Line CEO Kevin Sheehan today announced that Norwegian Cruise Line’s new state-of-the-art 4,000 passenger ship, Norwegian Breakaway, will make New York City her year-round home port. Beginning in May 2013, Norwegian Breakaway—which will be the largest ship ever to home port in the City—will replace [...]
06 October
Norwegian Cruise Line today announced adjustments to its smoking policy for each of the line’s 11 Freestyle Cruising ships in response to changing guest preferences. Effective January 2012, guests setting sail on a Norwegian cruise vacation are no longer permitted to smoke cigarettes in their staterooms. Guests who are in a balcony stateroom will be [...]
09 August
Norwegian Cruise Line invites kids (17 and younger) to sail free when their parents book a cruise from May 1 to 7, 2011. Parents can become their family’s “Vacation Hero” when booking their kids as third or fourth guests on select sailings fleet-wide for new reservations made by May 7, 2011. Families can have fun [...]
25 April
Norwegian Cruise Line has come up with an innovative way to get you to book early: The company says it will increase fares April 1 by “at least ten percent”.
The company also announced it will extend its “Free Upgrades For All” Sales Event through March 31, 2011. The promotion provides up to a four-category upgrade [...]
01 March
While we all love to receive flowers and chocolate on Valentine’s Day, much bigger gestures are certainly welcome. Running away to sea on a romantic cruise is the ultimate way to spend Valentine’s Day. And, if you haven’t booked a cruise yet Norwegian Cruise Line offers not only tempting prices but also sublime packages to [...]
18 January
NCL Corporation Ltd. announced today that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) relating to a proposed initial public offering (“IPO”) of its ordinary shares.
The registration statement relating to these securities has not yet become effective. These securities may not be [...]
26 October
Norwegian Cruise Line announced today that it is building two 143,500-ton cruise ships for delivery in spring, 2013 and spring, 2014, respectively. With a contract price of 1.2 billion euros, the ships will have 4,000 lower passenger berths.
While few other specifics were available, NCL says the unnamed new ships will continue its tradition of Freestyle [...]
25 October
Last night this New Yorker went out on the town. We started with one of the city’s top shows, the magical Blue Man Group, followed by an exquisite dinner of superbly cooked grilled salmon and fine wine at the Manhattan Club. Typical night owls, we then made our way to Fat Cat for an incredible [...]
05 July
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