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Jamaica’s Cruise Industry Is Growing, Buoyed by Royal Caribbean and Disney 
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Sandals Is Opening a Beaches All-Inclusive Resort in St Vincent and the Grenadines 

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Sandals is opening a new Beaches resort in St Vincent and the Grenadines, Caribbean Journal has learned.  Sandals and Beaches Executive Chairman Adam Stewart made the revelation during the Skift Global Forum this week.  The new resort is a 360-room all-inclusive development planned for Mount Wynne Beach on the western coast of St Vincent – […]

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Royal Caribbean Expands High-Speed Wi-Fi to All Its Ships

By the Caribbean Journal staff Royal Caribbean is expanding what it calls the fastest internet at sea to all of its ships. The company has launched its VOOM high-speed internet on all 24 ships sailing around the world. “VOOM is revolutionizing the onboard experience for our guests as well as for our crew and it […]

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How to Take a Relais & Chateaux Cruise in the Caribbean

It’s a chance for a new kind of culinary exploration in the Caribbean. Silversea’s newest itinerary is a partnership with Relais & Chateaux, offering the opportunity for a serious gourmet voyage. The company is launching a Relais & Chateaux Gourmet Cruise around the Caribbean, set to launch on the Silver Whisper ship in October. The Oct. […]

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VIDEO: The Caribbean’s Best Cruise Port Beach

There are so many great cruise ports around the Caribbean, but few of them have a great beach in close proximity. While you can explore in Old San Juan, shop in St Kitts, find your duty free desires in St Thomas, there’s no cruise port with a beach quite so close or as beautiful at […]

How to Take a Relais & Chateaux Cruise in the Caribbean

 More offerings in the Caribbean By Dana Niland CJ Contributor Viking Ocean Cruises will make its first transatlantic crossing in September 2016, launching three new Caribbean cruise itineraries. After several stops around North America, Viking Star will sail down to San Juan, Puerto Rico – which will serve as her homeport for the winter – […]

Royal Caribbean Is Ordering Another Quantum-Class Ship

 By the Caribbean Journal staff Royal Caribbean has entered into an agreement with Meyer Werft to order a fifth Quantum-class cruise ship, the company announced. The as-yet unnamed ship is slated for delivery in the fall of 2020. “It is such a pleasure to announce the order of another Quantum-class ship as we are welcoming […]

A New Cruise Ship in Barbados

 By the Caribbean Journal staff Barbados has welcomed the arrival of the new MV Brittania cruise ship. The 1,083-foot-long flagship of P&O Cruises will be homeporting in Barbados throughout the winter season, conducting 14-day cruises across the Caribbean. “We are going to see a 17 per cent increase in our home porting activity which will […]

Royal Caribbean Begins Construction on New Oasis-Class Ship

 Above: the keel-laying ceremony in France By the Caribbean Journal staff Royal Caribbean has officially begun construction on the company’s fourth Oasis-class ship. The keel was laid on the new ship at the STX shipyard in St Nazaire, France. The ceremony saw a 1,000-ton-block lifted by crane into the building dock. The ship has yet […]

Norwegian Cruise Line Takes Delivery of Its Largest Ship

 By Dana Niland CJ Contributor Norwegian Cruise Line has taken delivery of the line’s largest-ever ship, the 164,000-ton Norwegian Escape, after a construction period of 17 months. The ship is the first in the company’s new Breakaway Plus Class. “We are thrilled to deliver the first in Norwegian Cruise Line’s Breakaway Plus class,” said Bernard Meyer, […]

The Caribbean’s Busiest Cruise Port Gets Bigger

 Carnival Expands in Cozumel With $20 Million New Berth By the Caribbean Journal staff Carnival Corporation has expanded its operations in Cozumel with the launch of a third berth at its pier at Puerta Maya. Puerto Maya is the Caribbean region’s busiest cruise port, with an average of 3.3 million cruise guests each year. The […]

“This Is Not a Cruise”

 By the Caribbean Journal staff Royal Caribbean has launched a major new ad campaign aimed at repositioning and reshaping the image of cruising. The new ad released this month shows cruisers on a number of Caribbean excursions, from swimming with pigs in the Exumas to cliff diving. “This is not a cruise. You are not […]

This Cruise Ship Will Have a 10-Story Waterslide

 Splashaway Bay to debut on Harmony of the Seas By the Caribbean Journal staff When it debuts, Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas will become the world’s largest cruise ship. But it will also have the tallest largest slide at sea,a 100-foot plunge that will be part of the cruise line’s new Splashaway Bay aqua […]