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Costa Brings Spin Master Games Aboard for Kids
Starting December 2013 the innovative games by Spin Master will be making their debut aboard Costa Crociere – a world first exclusive to Costa – on the Italian company’s ships, where they will be the stars of the “New Costa Adventures” entertainment program.
The Italian cruise company’s youngest Guests on two of its ships – the Costa Pacifica and the Costa Serena – will be able to enjoy a truly special vacation on board, with fantastic games stimulating their curiosity while they interact with other children, kids’ staff and parents. Many of these games are now household names worldwide – for example the remote control “Air Hogs” vehicles, the levitating “AtmoSphere”, the family board games “Beat the Parents” and “Fibber!”, and the “Flutterbye Flying Fairy”.
Thanks to the partnership with Spin Master Italy (Spin Master exclusive agent for Italy), a cruise with Costa confirms its reputation as the ideal vacation for the whole family. While parents and grandparents enjoy the cruise, young children and teens can have great fun at the free kids’ Clubs, where they will be supervised by dedicated kids’ staff and where the highlight will be the packed entertainment program featuring the Spin Master games.
The “New Costa Adventures” program includes a host of activities for children of all ages, all based on one or more Spin Master games: mission impossible with Spy Gear covert mission kits for secret agents; fun “drawing” for toddlers and their mums on the magic Aquadoodle color mat; hovering or bouncing off walls with AtmoSphere; aerial acrobatics with the remote control Air Hogs; courses on how to spread your wings and guide the Flying Fairy.
Thus the two Costa ships will turn into veritable floating “toy libraries”, where kids can while away the time between destinations on the itinerary: one-week Western Mediterranean cruises on the Costa Pacifica; 11-day cruises to Greece, Turkey and Israel or Morocco and Portugal on the Costa Serena.
This first phase of collaboration between Spin Master and Costa Crociere marks the beginning of a partnership that will continue in the Spring of 2014, when the Spin Master games and the “New Costa Adventures” program will be extended on 12 Costa ships.
Costa to market boutique cruising under new brand
Costa to market boutique cruising under new brand
By Tom Stieghorst
Costa Cruises said two of its older, smaller ships will offer a new style of cruising and be marketed under the NeoCollection brand.
The ships, the NeoRomantica and NeoRiviera, will do longer, more leisurely itineraries with plenty of time in port in what Costa has labeled “slow cruising.” There will be an emphasis on locally sourced food and custom shore excursions.
Many of the itineraries are exclusive to the NeoCollection ships, which can go to smaller ports less accessible to Costa’s bigger vessels.
For example, The “Mediterranean Heart” itinerary departs Savona and calls at Toulon, France; Salerno and Livorno, Italy; Valletta, Malta; Porto Empedocle, Sicily, and concludes with an overnight call at Barcelona.
At 1,248 passengers (NeoRiviera) and 1,578 passengers (NeoRomantica), the two NeoCollection ships are among the smallest in Costa’s fleet.
Shore excursions for groups of 25 or fewer guests have been designed to highlight cultural and natural attractions in each destination.
New menus developed in collaboration with Università delle Scienze Gastronomiche in Pollenza, Italy, feature authentic cuisine that incorporates local food and wines.
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