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Carnival to offer one-way Caribbean cruises from NYC

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Carnival to offer one-way Caribbean cruises from NYC

By Tom Stieghorst
Carnival Cruise Lines said it will diversify the itineraries of the Carnival Splendor, which sails from New York.

For the first time, it will offer a series of one-way cruises that go from New York to San Juan and vice versa.

The eight-day trips will stop in St. Thomas, St. Kitts, Anguilla and St. Maarten.
There will be six voyages, starting in October 2014.

Before that, Splendor will offer four-, five- and seven-day Canada/New England cruises running from June to October 2014.

The ship’s mainstay routes will continue to be eight-day roundtrip cruises to Florida/Bahamas or the eastern Caribbean.

Royal Caribbean considers returning to Dubai

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A senior executive at Royal Caribbean indicated that the company may reverse course on a decision to remove Dubai from its cruise itineraries.

Royal Caribbean ceases cruises to the Gulf from Dubai this year, which also included stops in Abu Dhabi, Muscat and Fujairah.

“Unfortunately the season we had last year wasn’t as successful as we’d have liked it to be from a revenue perspective, for various reasons – economics, a bit more competition in the marketplace that brought the rates down,” Helen Beck, regional director, EMEA, told Arabian Business.

Beck was hopeful that Royal Caribbean would return to the Gulf in 2014.

“We were all very disappointed, but we haven’t given up the fight,” she added. “There’s a lot of internal lobbying… to have the decision reviewed, maybe not for this coming winter season, but for future seasons.”