honey it's Bruce here with traveling with Bruce today's video is a recap of
cruise news for the first week in February two thousand nineteen and we
start with Carnival the news out of Carnival is that this ship right here
the carnival Mardi Gras carnivals first mega cruise ship set a record they
opened the window this week to allow the public to book sailings on the Mardi
Gras and she set a record in her first day Carnival has never had this much
business for a new cruise ship before the Mardi Gras is gonna be a winner
she's coming out the end of 2020 in Port Canaveral the other news that's coming
out of Carnival is that this ship right here the Carnival Triumph is on her last
few sailings before she goes into dry dock for a refurbishment she's going to
get 200 million dollars of add-ons to the to her she's going to end up with a
major water park on the top deck here in the back and she's going to have an
additional number of decks redone on the front of the ship where the water
feature and all kinds of other amenities she'll be renamed the Carnival sunrise
and she'll be back in business about two months after she goes into her drydock
now over at Princess Cruise Line's princess Key had a major Feiner
last week a number of buildings were destroyed completely burned to the
ground the good news is that the fire did not affect this area here this is
where passengers hang out the Princess Cruise Line announced that tomorrow the
regal princess will be coming here and the passengers will be able to enjoy
princess key all day long I guess they've made repairs to some of the
equipment that was damaged by the fire and they'll be able to look after you no
problem at all that'll be good news for princess passengers now Royal Caribbean
has come up with some news Royal Caribbean has been working on Cocoa key
for the last number of months they've been adding 200 million dollar expansion
to this water park and it is coming along quite nicely they will be opening
this park up in the segments the first piece that was done was the pier that
you see at the top of that picture there instead of taking a tender into koko key
you'll be able to just walk off the ship and walk right into this area right here
the cruise line has announced that starting in 2021 they'll will they will
be overnighting here so ships will dock at the pier and you'll be able to walk
on walk off for two days and enjoy this entire feature uninterrupted it's a
quite a unique concept smart move by Royal Caribbean they're gonna save a lot
of fuels but yeah leaving the ship one extra day right here now virgin virgin
voyages they have come up with some new cabin designs this is quite unique
during the day your cabin has a chaise lounge in the evening you've got a full
bed this is a unique feature that they've offered they've been coming up
with all kinds of news this week they started to announce their first sailings
the ceilings revealed out of Miami we'll go to Cuba four and five nine sailings
with overnights in Havana five nights ceilings to Costa Maya and
five nights sailings going to the Dominican Republic visiting Porto Platt
up we're waiting to hear what kind of short excursions are gonna offer that
should be interesting as well pre-sales begin February the fifth for people who
put up deposit down last year sight unseen those folks will be allowed to be
booking their their cruises first they get a two-week window and then the rest
of the public comes in behind it the ship is really shaking it up there
are no temps on this Cruise Line no buffet there are 20 specialty
restaurants all included in your fare no extra charge for any of them basic
package for beverages is also included it's gonna be to see what that's all
about we'll see what virgin has in mind for
all their other features coming up that's been quite an interesting couple
of months listening to all the new ideas that they've been coming up with
including those rockstar suites that they've been talking about anyway join
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great day everybody bye for now