It is amazing how many cruise lines will be offering Cruise Holidays from Southampton during 2011; I believe it is 10. In order to fill the new large cruise ships, cruise companies are having to look at making prices cheaper; one way is to cut out the flight.
Does this mean that year round cruise holidays from Southampton will be here to stay or once the world recession is over will we resort back to having no cruise ships offering year round cruise holidays from Southampton?
Not many people realise that Royal Caribbean’s Independence of the Seas now offers cruise holidays from Southampton all year round. These are probably going to be more common in the future as cruise lines try to find ways to keep their ships full.
There are many people who have been asking for cruises from Southampton during the winter now they have what they want hopefully it will be something that is here to stay.
One other thing that is perhaps more commonly known is that cruise holidays are the fastest growing sector in travel. I guess this is behind the reasoning for having cruise holidays from Southampton year round
I was doing some research today for a new and improved section that I am working on and calculated that their will be 17 different ships offering cruises from Southampton in 2010. This is the main stream cruise lines, aka Royal Caribbean and Carnival UK ships along with Fred Olsen.
The 17th and last cruise ship will be Cunard’s’ Queen Elizabeth when she cruises from Southampton in December 2010.
New from Celebrity Cruises is that Celebrity Eclipse is set to offer cruises from Southampton when she enters service in 2010. This will be the first time that a Celebrity Cruises ship has home ported from Southampton.
Celebrity are investing a lot in Europe this year with Celebrity Century, Celebrity Summit, Celebrity Constellation and Celebrity Solstice being joined by Celebrity Equinox during the year, to offer cruises throughout Europe and the Mediterranean.
We have added a page about Crown Princess, the latest ship to take up the role of offering cruises from Southampton for the Princess Cruises line. Although not due in port for a couple of months, Crown Princess is likely to be very popular among the many Princess cruisers who frequent our shores.
P&O Cruises are offering a fantastic 94 night world voyage on board Arcadia. You will depart from Southampton on 10th January 2010 and be at sea until arriving back in the UK on April 15th.
The world cruise will take in many different sights from around the world. You will be able to sample local cuisine and culture in every port you stop at and there are shore excursions available at every port. You will spend 2 full days sampling Sydney and Hong Kong and 1 full day at most of the other ports of call.
Thomson Cruises are set to offer cheap cruises from Southampton with cruise ship Thomson Spirit taking on two Southampton sailings in 2009. The Iberian sailings are due to take place in September and October of that year.
A 12 night Med Cruise sailing will take place in September 2009 and will visit destinations including Lisbon, Malaga and Porto before returning to Southampton.
An 8 night sailing will then take place in October 2009 visiting destinations such as Lisbon and Alicante before finishing up in Palma.
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