Oceania Cruises, the upscale boutique line operated by Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, is making adjustments to its Cruise Trip Information, an info packet containing pre-cruise paperwork that’s despatched to all friends previous to embarkation day.
Most notably, the information now not incorporates a printed shore tour booklet, requiring cruisers to make use of the digital model of the road’s tour “overview booklet” obtainable on the Oceania Cruises’ web site. Friends can also entry a digital PDF exhibiting the shore excursions supplied on their particular voyage.
The brand new “Welcome Aboard” information will proceed to offer different essential pre-cruise paperwork, comparable to normal cruise and ship info and 4 color-coordinated baggage tags exhibiting the friends’ names, ship and departure date, and cabin quantity. The relaunched information additionally includes a welcome letter from Oceania Cruises’ president.
“It’s essential to us that vacationers crusing with Oceania Cruises get pleasure from a customized and seamless expertise from the time they e-book their voyage till their return dwelling,” mentioned Frank A. Del Rio, president of Oceania Cruises.
“Whereas most different strains are making the shift to a totally digital expertise, we’re responding to our friends’ desire for bodily, in-hand paperwork, exhibiting our dedication to fulfill the wants of our friends whereas additionally offering digital variations,” added Del Rio.
Oceania Cruises, which operates eight vessels, will ship the information to booked friends about two months earlier than departure day.
The cruise line is named a haven for foodies, and sails world itineraries that provide vacation spot immersion experiences. Its ships are small by trade requirements, accommodating a most of 1,250 friends in double occupancy.
The cruise line has two French Grasp Cooks on workers — Chef Alexis Quaretti, the road’s senior culinary director, and Eric Barale, vp of culinary. They’re each members of the elite Maîtres Cuisiniers de France, a Paris-based group that promotes skilled culinary excellence.
New-Construct Allura Set for Debut in July 2025
Oceania Cruises’ ninth ship, Allura, is underneath development at a Fincantieri shipyard in Italy and as a result of launch in 2025. As a consequence of constructing delays, its first six scheduled cruises had been not too long ago cancelled and the launch date was postponed.
The cancelled sailings had been to depart on June 8, 15, and 25; and on July 7, 17, and 29, 2025. A brand new maiden crusing is now slated to depart on July 24, 2025, and is scheduled as a 12-day voyage departing from Athens. The ultimate itinerary has not but been introduced.
The cruise line was within the information in late Could 2024 when it revealed that Marina, an Oceania-class ship that entered service in 2010, had emerged from a significant dry dock refit that added three eating venues.
The cruise line introduced the renovation in November 2023, calling it an“all-encompassing” refit that would come with the brand new eateries plus a refresh of the road’s signature Polo Grill steakhouse and elegance upgrades to the ship’s Penthouse Suites.
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Throughout her refit, Marina’s 124 Penthouse Suites obtained new custom-made furnishings, closets, carpets, and fabric, in addition to upgraded lighting and expertise, together with extra USB ports. Penthouse Suite bogs had been restyled, and now function Italian marble, outsized showers, and extra storage areas.
Marina is at the moment crusing a 12-day Rome to Lisbon cruise that departed June 1, 2024 and is looking at Saint-Tropez, France; Barcelona and Cadiz, Spain; Casablanca and Agadir, Morocco; Canary Islands; and Funchal, Portugal.
Upcoming sailings embrace an 11-day Lisbon to Amsterdam cruise departing June 13, 2024, and a 22-day Amsterdam to Southampton voyage that departs June 24, 2024, and options a number of Norwegian fjord locations plus port calls in Scotland, Eire, and the Channel Islands.
