It was 20 years ago that the Rostock-based graphic designer Feliks Büttner first made an AIDA ship smile. With the distinctive lips, eyes and waves on the hull, he created a trademark which has made the cruise company internationally famous.
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The pattern was the unmistakable smile logo of Marella Cruises' parent company, TUI UK.
The wreck and sinking of the steamship Princess Sophia exactly a century ago has been called Alaska's worst maritime tragedy. As many as 353 passengers and crew died after the ship grounded on Vanderbilt Reef north of Juneau on Oct. 23, 1918, and then sank 40 hours later in stormy weather.
What is the smallest Princess cruise ship? The smallest Princess cruise ship is the 2,000-passenger Coral Princess. Measuring just 91,267 gross tons, it's about 36% smaller than Discovery Princess, making it a significantly smaller vessel.
Entering service in 2010, at 115,055 GT and carrying 3096 passengers, Azura is one of P&O's three larger cruise ships. Sporting a distinctive rounded bow, Azura is filled with modern luxuries and innovations, including an open-air movie screen and an atrium dance floor.
Norwegian Cruise Line has revealed the company's new global brand campaign, Feel Free. Rooted in the cruise line's fundamentals of freedom & flexibility, Feel Free is an invitation for guests to experience Norwegian's philosophy of what a cruise vacation should be, free from rigid schedules with the freedom to make ...
Princess appeals to an older demographic than lines such as Carnival and Norwegian. The average age of passengers is around 57, and you'll usually see a lot of couples on board in their 50s, 60s and 70s. As noted above, these aren't people necessarily craving go-kart tracks and ropes courses at sea.
The smallest Celebrity cruise ship is the super-tiny Celebrity Xploration. Based in the Galapagos, it measures 320 tons, just a tiny fraction of the size of Celebrity Beyond, and it holds just 16 passengers. Or, to put it another way, Celebrity Xploration holds fewer passengers than a lifeboat on Celebrity Beyond.
The Sanctuary on Princess Cruises is an adults-only sun deck, an exclusive space that does not allow children under age 18. It's nestled on one of the ship's upper decks (forward or aft, depending on the ship), away from the main pools and directly above the Lotus Spa.
Costa Concordia disaster, the capsizing of an Italian cruise ship on January 13, 2012, after it struck rocks off the coast of Giglio Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. More than 4,200 people were rescued, though 32 people died in the disaster.
Thankfully, very few cruise ships have actually sunk in modern history. Even so, the Titanic's sinking impacted maritime law so much that there are more than enough lifeboats for all passengers and crew onboard any given sailing. Within the last 111 years, over 20 cruise ships and ocean liners have sunk.