Cruise lines
A cruise line is a company that runs cruise
ships either as a means of transportation or for leisure business especially for vacationers. If you
are planning going on a cruise line travel, probably with your family, you will need a cruise line that
will make all arrangements before you depart.
A cruise line vacation that will provide you the best of services,
ensuring your protection and that of your family while on board.
A cruise line has well trained personnel on board with a captain as the leader together with his crew.
There are also personnel who are meant to provide hospitality for passengers which are under the
strict supervision of a manager as in a five star hotel. Some of the cruise lines that operate
currently, have a cruising or shipping history.
Popular cruise lines
As at present, in the U.S.A Asia, Europe and other areas, there are up to 52 cruise lines providing
cruise related services with most of them having their base and headquarters situated in the U.S.A
and various locations in Europe. You can checkout some of the
best cruise lines. Some of the cruise lines in existence include the following.
- Carnival cruise Lines : Carnival cruise line is one of the largest, if not the largest cruise
line in the cruising industry; being a subsidiary of the carnival corporation, it is famous for been
the pioneer of cheap and short cruise ideas. They have produced the targets passenger ship in the
world, for example their 101,000 tons carnival destiny. The cruise line, recently made known its
plans to unveil the two new and latest ships known as carnival freedom and carnival splendor. The
former will be unveiled first in 2007 and the later will be unveiled in the spring of 2008.
- Disney cruise lines: This cruise line is a subsidiary of the Famous Walt Disney corporation with
their headquarters in Florida Two cruise ships are in operation for the company and they include the Disney magic which is the
first and was first unveiled and operated on the 30th July, 1998, and the Disney wonder which
made its Debut in the Bahamas which is mainly a port of call for Disney ships. Each of the Disney
ship has 875 staterooms and 945 crew. The ships have similar design with varying onboard service like
the entertainment centre and the restaurants. The young, the teenagers, children, adults and old can
go cruising on the Disney cruise lines.
- Norwegian cruise lines: The establishment, which is located in Miami, Florida is established in
1966 and known as the Norwegian Caribbean lines. It became a giant cruise ship after France took it
over in 1979.
- Birka line: it tours the Baltic sea beginning from Stockholm. Established in 1971, it acquired
the ship M/S princessan, renamed it. Prinsessan and went on its first cruise between Stockholm and
mariehamn. They later acquired more ships, one of which is the M/S Drohningen, a train ferry which
tour the Stockholm - Helsinki - Leningrad route.
- Crystal cruise lines: This cruise line is owned by Nippon. Yusen Kaisha line, a very large Japanese
shipping outfit. It first unveiled its shipping cruise line in 1988 with its three medium sized, high
end ships. The ship of these cruise line are among the 20 top cruise ship operating at the moment.
You can find guide and information about the cruise in Conde Nast traveler magazine which listed the
cruise lines as one of the best. You can also find several other cruises liens that a quite promising
as regarding giving you the best and memorial cruise vacation.