Princess Cruises promotes ex-UK sailings in 2019
Harry Kemble
harry.kemble@
travelweekly.co.uk
Princess Cruises is to offer more than one million bednights on voyages from Southampton and Dover in 2019.
The line’s Sapphire Princess will spend 198 days on sailings from Southampton to the Mediterranean and northern Europe. Princess Cruises’ 2019 schedule also includes sailings in Alaska, Japan, Canada and New England. Five ships – Sapphire, Crown,
Regal, Emerald and Pacific Princess – will sail in the Mediterranean
NCL introduces Just Cruise fare to boost online search ranking
Norwegian Cruise Line is offering a new low-cost fare to help its sailings rank higher on online travel agencies’ searches.
In April the line introduced
Premium All Inclusive, a fare category which included items formerly classed as ‘extras’. However, NCL has now launched
a Just Cruise fare category for selected sailings. Just Cruise fares offer the lowest price available at the time of booking and include cabin, service charge (gratuity), 24-hour dining and entertainment. It differs from Premium
All Inclusive by stripping out premium alcoholic and soft drinks, and daily delivery of bottled water. Travel partners will have
access to Just Cruise fares through 30
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WILKINSON: ‘We want to make sure NCL is on that front page’
their usual booking channels. Explaining the line’s decision to
introduce Just Cruise fares, Nick Wilkinson, NCL’s vice-president and managing director for the UK, Ireland and EMEA region, said: “If you go online and you are searching for a product of ours, we want to make sure that NCL is on
that front page, not page five or six.”
ncl.co.uk
and northern Europe to 130 destinations, visiting 37 countries. Itineraries feature overnight
stays in St Petersburg, Dublin, Alta in Norway, Venice and New York. Other European highlights in
2019 include the line’s first season of round-trip sailings from Dublin, with Crown Princess making 11 sailings around the British Isles. Across the season there will be 58 fly-cruise sailings in the
Mediterranean on the 3,082-berth Emerald Princess, ranging from seven to 21 nights and departing from Barcelona, Rome and Athens. A new 12-night round-trip itinerary from Southampton,
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