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Greetings, Cruise Fans, Sorry about the delay in posting this newsletter. We had some provider trouble and now have it all taken care of. So, I'm back! And here is this week's edition of the 7 Seas Cruise News! A hearty "welcome aboard" to all of our new subscribers. Hope you enjoy this modest little interruption and you learn a thing or two about your favorite ships, cruise lines and ports. Pat is excited about a couple of really great 8-day cruises Carnival has to offer- and the great prices available. On February 17, the Carnival Legend sails the Western Caribbean from Fort Lauderdale for a mere $ 554 per person, double occupancy. (inside cabin, of course, but hey, this is a 8-day cruise including all taxes and port charges!! ) Or for those who would like to visit some different ports, there is an 8-day cruise from Miami departing February 19 aboard the Carnival Spirit visiting Southern Caribbean ports. The price for this one is only $546 per person, double occupancy-including all taxes and port charges! Talk about a terrific Valentine's Day gift. Wow. Just call Pat to book it. 1-866-424-1090 is the toll-free number. A note about the amazing Queen Mary 2. Although we haven't see her up close, she looks like a beauty. And she is selling fast! ! If you have an interest in sailing the new Queen this season, do not hesitate! There are very few inside cabins left for any '04 sailings and prices are high. Pat will, however, get you the very best discount he can, so if being among the first on board is important to you, call Pat now! And now, some news??¦ Ecstasy replaces the 1,486-passenger Celebration on year-round four- and five-day Mexico cruises in October 2004. The Celebration will be deployed to another homeport. In turn, the 2,052-passenger Paradise will assume the Ecstasy's popular three- and four-day Baja cruises from Long Beach, Calif., beginning in September 2004, becoming the newest cruise ship ever to operate short cruises from the West Coast. This is a truly elegant, beautifully appointed vessel offering a wide variety of on-board facilities and features, along with stunning interiors that pay homage to the world's most famous ocean liners. Paradise, which has operated since its introduction in 1998 as a smoke-free vessel, will no longer retain that designation. Beginning Oct. 23, 2004, the 70,000-ton SuperLiner Ecstasy will launch year-round four- and five-day service from Galveston, becoming the only year-round ship to operate short cruises from that port. On this route, four-day cruises depart the historic Port of Galveston on Thursdays and call at Cozumel, offering the ideal long weekend getaway. Five-day cruises, departing Mondays and Saturdays, are particularly noteworthy as they offer guests the opportunity to visit two of the Caribbean's most popular destinations, Cozumel and Calica/Playa del Carmen, in less than a week's time. Guests can also combine their cruise with a pre- or post-cruise land stay during which they can visit Galveston's many historic sites and museums, or shop and dine along the Strand, the city's renowned entertainment district. Prior to the start-up of their new programs, the Paradise and Ecstasy will each operate special one-time 15-day Panama Canal repositioning cruises. On Sept. 5, the Paradise will depart Miami, arriving in Long Beach on Sept. 20, 2004. Featured ports will include Aruba, prior to the Panama Canal transit, along with Puntarenas, Costa Rica; and Acapulco, Mazatlan and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. This will be the last cruise the Paradise will offer as a non-smoking vessel. On its 15-day Panama Canal cruise, the Ecstasy will depart Long Beach on Sept. 17 and arrive in Miami Oct. 2, 2004. Ports of call on this voyage will include Acapulco and Puntarenas, prior to the Panama Canal transit, as well as Aruba, and Ocho Rios, Jamaica. After arriving in Miami, the Ecstasy will undergo a 20-day drydock then launch year-round service from Galveston Oct. 23, 2004. Pat says there are great prices available on these ships when they make their one-way passage through the Panama Canal. These repositioning cruises are great values if you have about two weeks for a vacation! Call to learn more! Fincantieri Cantieri Navali S.p.A. has been contracted to construct a 112,000-gross-ton cruise ship to be delivered in summer 2006. To be built at Fincantieri's Sestri Ponente shipyard, the new vessel will have an all-in cost of approximately 450 million euros.The as-yet-unnamed ship, which will encompass 1, 502 staterooms with a total guest capacity of 3,800, will be the largest passenger ship in the history of Italian seafaring. It is expected to be deployed in the Mediterranean year-round. As an all-new class of vessel for the line, it will offer innovative amenities and facilities including a wide range of formal and casual venues, one of the largest health and wellness centers at sea, four pools - two of which will feature retractable domes - and state-of-the-art telecommunications capabilities that will enable guests to use their cellular telephones while at sea. Sixty-one percent of the staterooms will feature an ocean view with 62 percent of those will have private balconies. Carnival has rolled out a new all-digital photo platform featuring the latest professional digital cameras from Olympus, the E-1 - the first such cameras to be used on a cruise ship -along with the cruise industry's fastest digital photo labs developed specifically for Carnival by KonicaMinolta Photo Imaging USA Inc., a leading photo imaging services provider. The line has also scheduled a beta-test of a new photo-retrieval kiosk featuring innovative " facial recognition technology" that matches a guest's likeness with stored "Fun Ship" vacation photos and displays images on a computer screen for review. These various new technologies are creating a faster, more user-efficient and environmentally friendly photo operation aboard Carnival's fleet of 20 "Fun Ships." The multi-million-dollar digital photography conversion is already in place on six of the line's vessels with fleetwide implementation expected before the end of the year. Beta-testing of the photo- retrieval kiosk - the first of its kind in the cruise industry - will begin this spring aboard the new 2,124-passenger Carnival Miracle. With the new digital system, Carnival guests can also customize their photos with colorful borders, backgrounds and other features. The conversion to the digital platform also has environmental benefits, as the use of photo-finishing chemicals will be greatly reduced and film will no longer be required. With the new system, guests sailing aboard Carnival Miracle will visit a stand-alone kiosk, which captures an image of his or her face. The image is compared to faces of all photos taken by the ship's photographers during that voyage. Once the search is complete, all photos featuring that guest, including individual and group shots, will appear on a touch-screen computer monitor for review. Selected images are then printed on photo paper using high quality Konica Minolta digital printers. And that's about it from here. Hope winter is SHORT in your part of the country and the groundhog stared at shadowless ground today. Here in South Florida, it doesn't matter, but we are still Hoosiers at heart, so we sympathize with everyone north of Orlando. Be warm-and plan a cruise. That will make you feel all warm inside! Until next week, may the sun shine on your foredeck and a warm wind follow closely at your stern--or something like that. Teri |
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