Costa Cruises

Costa Deliziosa set for Dubai Christening

Costa Cruises has announced that Costa Deliziosa, the 92,700 ton sister ship to Costa Luminosa will be christened as Costa Cruises like to call it in Dubai on the 23rd February 2010.

This will be the first ever naming of a cruise ship in an Arabic country and reinforces Costa Cruises commitment to the region which started a couple of years ago when Costa Classica first set sail on week long cruises out of Dubai.

Cruises on Costa Deliziosa in 2010 are being displayed on our cruises 2010 section where we have a selection of 2010 Costa Cruises and many other cheap cruises.

Costa Favolosa & Costa Fascinosa

Costa Cruises has annonced the names of their two new cruise ships due in servvice in 2011 and 2012; Costa Favolosa & Costa Fascinosa.

The names Costa Favolosa & Costa Fascinosa, the 16th and 17th cruise ships in the Costa Cruises fleet were chosen from a list of 16,000 names generated by some 40,000 travel agents. Both ships will be able to hold 3,000 guests and will be 114,000 tons in weight.

Our Cruises in 2011 part of the website will be updated with Costa Favolosa & Costa Fascinosa cruises once they are released. In the meant time other cheap cruises on Costa can be sorced via our search box or by calling 0208 144 6200.

Costa Atlantica Repostion Cruise

Costa Atlantica will be starting her reposition cruise on October 25th with a cruise from Quebec in Canada to Ft Lauderdale in Florida. The cruise is via Charlottetown (Canada), Boston (USA), New York, Bermuda, Port Canaveral (USA) arriving in Fort Lauderdale (Florida) ready to start a series of Caribbean Cruises throughout the winter months.

We hope to be able to supply some great cheap cruises on Costa Atlantica and any other ships in the Costa Cruises fleet, just call 0208 144 6200.

Thomson Cruises New Cruise Ship – Thomson Dream

Well OK it is not quite a new ship, more like yet another quality but aging sip being transferred to the Thomson Cruises cruise line. Costa Europa of Costa Cruises will join Thomson Cruises as Thomson Dream in April 2010 on a 10 year charter.

Though small compared to the rest of the Costa Cruises fleet, Thomson Dream will be the largest cruise ship in the Thomson Cruises fleet with the ability of carrying some 1,500 passengers. Thomson Dream will offer three week long Mediterranean cruises out of Palma, Majorca.

Costa Cruises Cut Single Supplement

Costa Cruises is to cut its single supplement from 1st December 2010, which means in some cases the single supplement will be as low as 30%. This is a move by Costs Cruises to attract more single cruisers, well that is what they say, yet we all know it is because they have lots of cabins to fill, a result of having too many new builds in such a short period of time.

This is good news for all those who are looing for quality singles cruises and will surely help Costa Cruises fill some of those empty beds.

Costa Cruises Costa Romantica Fire

According to Usatoday, Costa Cruises‘ Costa Romantica suffered a fire in the engine room.

Costa Cruises say that the fire erupted in one of the four diesel generators within the engine room of the 1,680-passenger Costa Romantica but “was promptly fought and rapidly put out.” Costa Cruises went on to say “After a long technical work, (the crew) succeeded to restore the electricity on board and consequently basic services on board, propulsion included.”

Costa Romantica was on a South American cruise when the incident happened and remained anchored near Punta del Este, Uruguay for some time after the event.

Costa Cruises have also made a statement to say that no one was injured in the blaze.

Costa Cruises Ships

The number of Costa Cruises Ships is set to grow substantially in the next three years as they have no less than five ships on order.

The first of these is due in service in May 2009 and is known as Costa Luminosa, she will be followed by Costa Pacifica in June 2009 with Costa Deliziosa coming aboard in 2010. Two yet unnamed ships will appear in 2011 and 2012.

All of these ships are in the Concordia class named after Costa Concordia who arrived in service for Costa Cruises in 2006. A year later, in 2007, Costa Serena joined the fleet and when the building is finished the number of Costa Cruises Ships will be sixteen.

Costa Cruises Partner Ryanair

The Italian based, US owned Costa Cruises have signed a three year deal with Ryanair the low cost airline that will see more than 5O routes flown by the airline connecting to Costa Cruises embarkation points.

The deal will see an expansion for Costa Cruises Cruise Only Cruises, with Ryanair offering sales of the Costa product on their websites which is available in 8 countries within Europe.

Costa’s Cruises are available to book from Ryanair’s website in the UK and will be introduced to the carrier’s other sites in seven European countries.

We have now added associated search terms to our Costa Cruises page, Costa are a renowned Italian cruise company owned by Carnival.

Surprisingly, Costs Cruises are the largest cruise line in Europe and have a fleet of 13 cruise ships that offer cruises around the world including the usual Mediterranean Cruises and Caribbean Cruises.

In June 2009 Costa Pacifica will join the fleet a new 115,000 ton cruise ship that will carry 3780 passengers with the usual Costa Cruises Italian flare.

Costa Cruises China Awards

Italian owned cruise line Costa Cruises has scooped two awards in China as recognition for its long-term contributions to the Chinese cruise market. Costa were the first cruise line to enter the Chinese market over three years ago and have proved very popular as have many Far Est Cruises.

The first award was for ‘Best Brand Campaign’ and was voted for by almost 600,000 readers of the Travel Weekly China publication. The second award for Costa was ‘Top Cruise Lines of Popularity’ at the China International Travel Mart 2008. This is the second time Costa Cruises have won this award.