USA TODAY and the Mirror newspaper in the U.K. report that Princess Cruises has canceled today’s sailing of the Sun Princess, citing a power problem.
The Sun Princess is an 18 year-old cruise ship which just had a $30 million make-over. It was scheduled to sail a 14-night voyage from Singapore to Freemantle
Early this morning a fire broke out in the engine room of the Zenith cruise ship, formerly operated by Celebrity Cruises and now operated by Royal Caribbean Cruises owned Pullmantur Cruises,
The fire started at approximately 03:48 AM today while the cruise ship sailed from Ravenna to Venice with 1672 passengers on board.
The
On the heels of power and propulsion difficulties facing Carnival Cruise Line cruise ships Triumph, Dream, Legend and Elation, it is now being reported that another cruise ship operated by a Carnival Corporation brand, P&O Cruises, is suffering propulsion problems.
Passengers are reporting that the P&O Ventura has broken down several times over the
WTSP in Tampa reports on the plight of the Carnival Legend cruise ship which left last Sunday from the Port of Tampa under full power but will return limping home tomorrow.
There’s a problem with one of the cruise ship’s two propulsion pods that is substantially reducing the Legend’s speed.
Carnival canceled the ship’s port stop
With Carnival under a microscope, the cruise line continues to experience bad PR as yet another Carnival cruise ship experienced a mechanical failure.
The Chicago Tribune reports that last weekend, the Carnival Elation had to get a tugboat escort down the Mississippi River after a mechanical problem.
In the last 2 months, four of Carnival’s
CNN reports this morning that passengers aboard the Dream contacted the news channel, stating that there are power outages and overflowing toilets on the cruise ship which is in port at Philipsburg, St. Maarten, in the eastern Caribbean. The ship was supposed to leave port yesterday at 5:00 PM.
CNN quotes a passenger from North
Yesterday the Sun Princess cruise ship responded to a disabled sailing yacht in the middle of the Tasman Sea.
The Tasman Sea is a wide body of water measuring some 1,200 miles across, between Australia and New Zealand.
According to the Ballina Shire Advocate, the vessel, named the Scotch Bonnet, was adrift when it was located
After kicking disabled cruise passenger Jim Keskeny off in a Caribbean island alone, Celebrity Cruises responded to Mr. Keskeny’s request for reimbursement of his cruise fare and travel expenses home with a "bombastic and bullying" letter threatening him with legal fees and costs, according to his Mr. Keskeny’s Michigan lawyer Richard Bernstein.
The cruise line threats
A newspaper in Michigan is reporting on what is described as a the "shocking and scary" story of a disabled cruise passenger who faced the obstacles of a non ADA-compliant cruise ship only to have the cruise line force him off the ship in a Caribbean port to fend for himself alone.
Jim Keskeny, age 66, is confined
The partially disabled Clelia II cruise ship is facing extreme weather conditions with 88 U.S. passengers aboard as it limps back to port in Argentina after one of its engines stopped working.
Operated by Polar Cruises, (but see comments below), the Clelia II is a Antarctica explorer vessel with a crew of around 77. The cruise ship experienced limited maneuverability