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In brief
■ Ocean Village cuts summer Med prices
Ocean Village is offering last-minute savings on
seven and 14-night summer 2009 itineraries to
the eastern and western Mediterranean, with
prices from £599 for seven nights and £899 for
14 nights based on two sharing, including flights.
■ Hurtigruten adds training modules to Ace site
Norwegian cruise line Hurtigruten has launched
four modules on the Association of Cruise Experts’
online Elite Training Academy. Modules are The
Hurtigruten Experience; Cruising the Norwegian
Coast; Spitsbergen and Greenland; and Antarctica.
■ Cruise Portfolio appoints Nan Short
The Cruise Portfolio has appointed Nan Short as
regional sales consultant for Windstar Cruises in
NCL to stop sailing
Nothern Ireland. Short is based in Belfast.
■ Transocean offers Marco Polo deals
Transocean Tours is offering savings on selected
ex-Southampton
summer cruises on Marco Polo for new bookings
until March 31. Deals include April Fjord cruises
Lee Hayhurst .
The new cruise programme is included in a
starting at £499, a 32-night West Indies cruise NORWEGIAN Cruise Line will not offer ex- preview brochure that launched on Monday.
from £1,999, an eight-night British Isles trip from Southampton cruises in 2010, opting instead to Stephen Park, NCL UK general manager, said:
£599 and an 11-night Baltic cruise from £799. base a ship in Venice. “We wanted to simplify the product that we sell.
The line’s Norwegian Gem will sail two “We have had great success out of Southamp-
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port, offering a 14-night back-to-back holiday. love to continue doing it but I think this makes
Norwegian Jade, which was first based in more sense.
LAUNCHPAD. Southampton last year having been moved from “We had Jade doing lots of different itineraries
the line’s Hawaii-based NCL America fleet, will be out of Southampton but we have found, for in-
Fred Olsen Cruise Lines based in Barcelona operating seven-night cruises. stance, the seven nights out of Barcelona have
2010 Preview Ex-UK cruises on Norwegian Jewel out of been very popular with customers and agents.
Fred Olsen is offering preferential Dover will continue to the Baltic. “They are a consistent product and they fit
rates for early bookers. The NCL said the decision was prompted by a with the NCL Freestyle brand, plus they appeal
brochure offers an extensive desire to simplify the product. to regular cruisers and new-to-cruisers.”
range of ex-UK cruises from Dover, Liverpool, Agents have suggested that although the One change to the Barcelona seven-night
Southampton, Newcastle, Greenock (Glasgow) ex-Southampton sailings were popular, the cruises is that Valletta in Malta has been
and, for the first time, Rosyth (Edinburgh). The ex-Venice itineraries were likely to be more dropped as a port of call and replaced by
brochure also features Civilisations, a cultural lucrative. Venice has good air lift from the US. Palma, Majorca.
add-on package. Prices start from £150 per
person for a two-night cruise from Liverpool
departing June 4.
Blue Water sites
Virgin Holidays Cruises, according to Amazon-
■ 01473 742424 owned web information company Alexa.
And worldwide, it is ranked as 13th most
Louis Cruise Lines attract 4m users popular cruise site.
2009 – 2nd edition Blue Water said it aimed to reach five million
Louis Cruise Lines has lowered CRUISE and boating specialist Blue Water visitors a year by the end of 2009.
prices on all its Aegean cruises, Holidays claimed its five websites now attracted Barry Peters, managing director of Blue Water
with a seven-night trip leading more than four million visitors a year. Holidays, said: “We have developed cruising-
in at £459 based on two sharing, down from Its sites include
Cruisingholidays.co.uk,
holidays.co.uk over the last seven years.
£529. For bookings made before March 31,
Latecruises.co.uk,
Cruisesonline.co.uk, Holi- “Our six-month-old mainstream cruise
this price drops to £399. Louis operates a
dayUK.co.uk and
Boatingholidays.com. website also shows significant growth and we
cruise-only programme. The agent said the most popular of its sites, have now extended our UK website to include
■ 0800 0183883 Cruising Holidays, was the UK’s third most- holiday parks, cottages and lodges to meet
visited cruise agent site after
Cruise.co.uk and customer demand.”
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