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Royal Caribbean Cruises Limited, the world's second largest cruise operator, has cut fuel consumption by about 4 percent with better designed ships, smarter sailing practices and energy efficiency measures that include installing solar window film in every ship in the fleet.
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As a company established between two world wars and matured during the height of the Soviet scare, it made sense for The Walt Disney Company to create places well removed from the unknown threats of the world for both parents and children: Disneyland and Disney World.

However, on this side of the 21st century, Disney has grown beyond simply theme parks into a vacation partner that promises saf
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Let's face it. If you don't move in the rarefied circles of the financial elite, cruising on a luxury brand is beyond your reach. It's usually a case of look, but don't touch.

One of the best luxury lines, Crystal, is making it a bit easier to get on board that dream cruise, and other lines in the same category are doing the same.

For the spring of 2011, Crystal is offering a 2-for-1 sale t
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A dance club brawl aboard a Carnival Cruise ship last week ended with 10 passengers being kicked off the vessel during a stop in Mexico, officials confirmed today.

The incident happened late last week near the western Caribbean Mexican port of Costa Maya aboard the Carnival Dream — a 3,600-passenger ship based in Port Canaveral, officials said.

An 11th person traveling with some of passenge
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More than 100 foreign tourists experienced a short-lived Titanic-like scare on the Volga River early Wednesday when their luxury cruise ship sailing from Moscow to St. Petersburg collided with a sand-laden barge.

None of the 111 tourists from the United States, Germany and Italy were injured, while three of the 91 crew members sustained minor bruises during the incident on the Rybinskoye reser
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Miami-Dade police have released the identity of a man who died Saturday on-board Norwegian Cruise Line's Epic just miles off the Florida coast. He's identified as 21-year-old Kevin Edouard, of Spring Valley, NY.

Police say his cause of death remains unclassified pending the results of an autopsy. However, the FBI said Edouard had a fatal allergic reaction, while NCL stated he suffered a heart
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Relatives of passengers who died when the Titanic sank in 1912 are among those attending a cruise in 2012 to mark 100 years since the disaster.
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Add Crystal Cruises to the list of lines cutting back on voyages to the Mexican Riviera.

Industry watcher Seatrade Insider today reports the luxury operator is replacing two seven-night sailings to the region schedule for April 2011 with new trips along the West Coast of the USA between Los Angeles and Vancouver.
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Princess Cruises just unveiled plans for a four-week voyage in 2011 that will include stops in Europe, Africa and Asia.

The "Mediterranean, India & Asia" sailing from Rome to Singapore on the 680-passenger Ocean Princess, scheduled to begin on Oct. 15, 2011, is similar to a 56-night voyage between the cities taking place later this year but exactly half as long.
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A new survey has suggested that both luxury cruises and river cruises are rapidly growing in popularity among cruise-goers.

Almost one quarter of travel agencies reported that consumers were moving towards luxury cruises, said the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) on August 10.
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