PREMIUM CRUISE LINES
Premium cruise lines offer upscale cruises compared to the contemporary cruise lines, with a more subtle if not subdued ambience.
Although not necessarily smaller than their contemporary sisters, premium cruise line vessels typically carry fewer passengers and offer more space per guest.
The standard of cuisine is generally high and most premium cruise lines offer a healthy assortment of alternative dining opportunities.
Service is also of a high standard with luxurious extras like butler service for some suites.
Entertainment is in the form of polished “shows”, some guest artists, and educational lectures.
Azamara Cruises is a premium, small ship line that offers a refined, relaxed, unique destination experience. Prior to both ships' launch, the line invested nearly $40-million between the two to incorporate two specialty restaurants and 32 new suites on each ship, and entirely new bedding, decking, flooring, carpeting, art collection and design schemes, within a variety of updated, stylish lounges, including a Martini Bar, Mosaic Café, Sushi Café, Drawing Room jazz/piano bar, casino, Boutique C, AstralSpa by Elemis, Acupuncture at Sea and an Internet café.
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Celebrity Cruises offers a comfortably sophisticated, upscale cruise experience with highly personalized service, authentic five-star dining, and extraordinary attention to detail. Its ships and the line’s service, cuisine and spas consistently dominate top travelers’ surveys. Celebrity sails in Alaska, Australia/New Zealand, California, Canada/New England, the Caribbean, Europe, Galapagos Islands, Hawaii, the Pacific Coast, Panama Canal and South America.
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Holland America Line’s fleet of 14 ships sail to ports of call on all seven continents, ranging from popular Caribbean and Alaska itineraries to exotic cruises to the far corners of the world. Holland America Line has completed an unprecedented $425-million investment in unparalleled product and service enhancements to its fleet of five-star ships.
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It is said that P&O Cruises "invented" cruising. In the 1880s the Orient Line and the North of Scotland company, both later to be taken over by P&O Cruises, pioneered modern-style cruises, and in 1904 P&O Cruises offered its first cruise holiday programme, a first class only cruise with shore excursions arranged by Thomas Cook.
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From its modest beginnings in 1965 with a single ship cruising to Mexico, Princess has grown to become one of the premiere cruise lines in the world. Today, its fleet carries more than a million passengers each year to more worldwide destinations than any other major line.
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