Tag: Royal Caribbean

• Monday, October 21st 2019 - 09:01 UTC

  Cruise passengers removed and banned for life because of reckless selfies

  

  A photograph taken last week on a Caribbean cruise ship quickly gained widespread attention, but it was not of a pink-sand beach, a zip-lining adventure or an onboard sky-diving simulator. It was of a woman standing on a balcony railing of her stateroom on one of the world's largest cruise ships - posing for a selfie.

• Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

  Cruise industry overhauling vessels to appeal to a younger crowd

  

  Tucked away in the south-west of Singapore, at Sembcorp Marine’s Tuas shipyard, Royal Caribbean’s 15-deck Voyager of the Seas cruise ship is getting a US$97 million facelift.

• Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 09:06 UTC

  The Caribbean cruise industry suffers the consequences of hurricane Dorian battering of Bahamas

  

  For the Atlantic's major cruise operators, deadly Hurricane Dorian has meant nothing but trouble in paradise as ships have been diverted from the Bahamas. But as the widespread devastation becomes more apparent on the ravished archipelago, a bread-and-butter staple of the tourist industry, the companies are pledging to help fund major relief.

• Monday, November 25th 2013 - 15:55 UTC

  Operational costs in Argentina and Brazil threaten the South Atlantic cruise industry

  

  The high operational costs in the ports of the region is having a negative impact for the cruise industry and some of the companies have already withdrawn vessels from the South Atlantic routes, warned Mediterranean Shipping Company, MSC and Royal Caribbean during a regional conference on the industry sponsored by Uruguay's Ministry of Tourism.

• Tuesday, May 28th 2013 - 06:06 UTC

  Royal Caribbean “Grandeur of the Seas” suffers accident, cancels cruise

  

  Royal Caribbean International announced on Monday that the 31 May 2013 sailing of Grandeur of the Seas from Baltimore, Maryland, will be cancelled to allow for repairs to damages sustained as a result of a fire.

• Saturday, March 9th 2013 - 04:49 UTC

  “Vision of the Seas” cruising the Caribbean hit by norovirus

  

  Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. on Friday said its “Vision of the Seas” cruise ship returned to Port Everglades in Florida with 108 people who might have caught an illness thought to be norovirus.