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CARNIVAL PANORAMA COMING TO LONG BEACH

 

Yes, that’s right!!! The Carnival Panorama will call Long Beach her home port when entering service in 2019.

Carnival Cruise Lines made an exciting announcement today at the grand re-opening of the 146,000 square foot state of the art cruise terminal. The new 133,500-ton Carnival Panorama will be the first brand new Carnival ship deployed to southern California in 20 years.

As the Splendor that has recently arrived in Long Beach makes her way to Australia in 2019, the Panorama will take over.   Carnival Cruise Lines is excited that this will bring great business opportunities now and in the near future.

Bookings are expected to start for the carnival Panorama at the end of March 2018.

Happy Cruising!!!

Sharon at Sea

NCL NAME’S NEW MEGA SHIP

 

Norwegian cruise lines has announced they will be  naming  their new ship the “Norwegian Encore” as she is scheduled to make her debut in October 2019.  NCL has been working on the construction of their new mega ship in Papenburg, Germany.  It will be included in, as well as the last ship in the Breakaway Plus class.  Miami is scheduled to be the Encore’s home port.

 

SAN JUAN ~ POST HURRICANES

 

 

The Caribbean was hit hard this last season as hurricane Irma & Maria blew through the islands…

Although many Caribbean islands were untouched by the deadly hurricanes this past season, a few islands were left in shambles of destruction.  One that took a massive hit was San Juan Puerto Rico.  With the injured victims and death count still remaining uncertain, now the island continues working at recovering its loses.

Now over 100 days since mother nature hit Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican government statistics show that 55% of Puerto Rico have had their power restored, although that still leaves a devastating number of over 660,000 that do not have power.  Most hotels, businesses, and restaurants are with power, many residential areas still remain in the dark.  It is estimated that power will be fully restored to all areas of Puerto Rico by May.

 

 

 

 

The Luis Munoz Marin Airport in San Juan is open, and providing service for 27 different carriers.  It’s accommodating over 70 scheduled international and domestic flights.  Some of the smaller airports remain with limited service. Continue reading “SAN JUAN ~ POST HURRICANES”

Royal Caribbean Increase!!!

Royal Caribbean has increased their cover charge at Johnny Rockets on select Oasis of the Seas sailings from $6.95 to $9.95.  Quite a jump!!!

Although according to a Royal Caribbean spokesperson, it is just being tested to a small group of sailings and at this time there are no plans to add it to any other ships.

Sharon at Sea