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Fast-growing stream line Avalon Waterways has twin some-more vessels in Europe this week after phenomenon a second and third “suite ships” — a new pattern that it started rolling out final year.

Named on Friday during a twin rite in a Netherlands, a 166-passenger Avalon Vista and 135-passenger Avalon Visionary are a company’s 12th and 13th new ships in Europe given 2004.

Avalon’s apartment ships underline twin full decks of suites with wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling breathtaking windows that, when open wide, emanate a patio outcome in a room. The initial vessel in a series, a 166-passenger Avalon Panorama, debuted in early 2011. Take a print debate of a Avalon Panorama.

Two important journey marketers, Cruise Strategies’ Vanessa Lee and Travelsavers’ Nicole Mazza, served as godmothers of a new ships during Friday’s ceremony.

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PHOTO TOUR:  Look inside an Avalon ‘suite ship’

The Avalon Visionary will cruise this year on a Rhine River, handling Avalon’s 8-day “Romantic Rhine” channel (fares from $1,849 per person), as good as several Christmastime cruises. The Avalon Vista will cruise a line’s 11-day “Legendary Danube” cruises (starting during $1,839); 13-day “Blue Danube Discovery” cruises (starting during $2,249); and 15-day “Magnificent Europe” cruises. Details are accessible during Avalon’s website.

Unveiled in 2004, attention hulk Carnival’s Carnival Valor is a workhorse of a Caribbean, sailing year-round to a segment out of Miami. What’s it like to journey on a 2,974-passenger vessel? Click HERE to see a new comprehensive print tour of a Carnival Valor by maestro journey author and boat photographer Peter Knego.

Designed as a investigate apparatus for vacationers deliberation a excursion on a vessel, a Carnival Valor print debate is a 60th in a Cruise Log’s ongoing array of journey boat galleries.

For prior print tours, click on a links below:

American Safari Cruises: Safari Explorer
Azamara Club Cruises: Azamara Journey
Avalon Waterways: Avalon Panorama
Celebrity Cruises: Celebrity Eclipse; Celebrity Constellation; Celebrity Century; Celebrity Solstice; Celebrity Silhouette
Carnival Cruise Lines: Carnival Magic; Carnival Destiny; Carnival Ecstasy; Carnival Splendor; Carnival Inspiration; Carnival Liberty; Carnival Dream
Celebration Cruise Line: Bahamas Celebration
Compagnie du Ponant: Le Boreal
Costa Cruises: Costa Favolosa; Costa Deliziosa
Cruise Maritime Voyages: Marco Polo
Crystal Cruises: Crystal Symphony
Cunard Line: Queen Mary 2; Queen Elizabeth; Queen Victoria; Queen Mary (retired)
Disney Cruise Line: Disney Wonder; Disney Fantasy; Disney Dream
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines: Braemar
Great American Steamboat Co.: American Queen
Hapag-Lloyd: Europa
Holland America Line: Nieuw Amsterdam; Eurodam; Oosterdam; Statendam
InnerSea Discoveries: Wilderness Discoverer
Louis Cruises: Louis Majesty
MSC Cruises: MSC Fantasia
Norwegian Cruise Line: Norwegian Jade; Norwegian Sky; Norwegian Epic; Norwegian Gem
Oceania Cruises: Marina
Princess Cruises: Ruby Princess; Crown Princess; Emerald Princess; Sapphire Princess
Regent Seven Seas Cruises: Seven Seas Mariner
Royal Caribbean International: Oasis of a Seas; Allure of a Seas
Seabourn Cruise Line: Seabourn Sojourn and Seabourn Odyssey; Seabourn Quest
Silversea: Silver Spirit
Vantage Deluxe World Travel: River Discovery II
Viking River Cruises: Viking Odin
Voyages to Antiquity: Aegean Odyssey
Voyages of Discovery: Discovery
Windstar Cruises: Wind Surf; Wind Spirit

The construction of attention hulk Carnival’s subsequent journey boat upheld a vital miracle in new days as a vessel successfully finished sea trials off a seashore of Italy.

The 3,690-passenger Carnival Breeze, that will be one of a line’s biggest ships ever when it debuts in June, hurdled a battery of customary tests while sailing underneath a possess energy in a Adriatic Sea, a line says. A fortuitous of officers, technicians and engineers were aboard a vessel.

The 130,000-ton Carnival Breeze has been underneath construction for scarcely dual years during a Fincantieri shipyard nearby Trieste, Italy.

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PHOTO TOUR:  Look inside Breeze’s one-year-old sister, Carnival Magic

With sea trials completed, usually final interior work stays before a Carnival Breeze is delivered to Carnival by a shipyard. With a addition, a line will have 24 ships during sea.

The vessel will have several new-for-the-line facilities including a full-service sushi grill and an immersive, special effects-laden museum knowledge to be called a Thrill Theater. Read about how a museum will work.

A sister to a year-old Carnival Magic, a Carnival Breeze also will have an expanded deck-top sports formidable called SportSquare and a H2O slip area called WaterWorks. Take a print debate of a Carnival Magic.

Scheduled to set journey on a initial journey on Jun 3, a Carnival Breeze will work a array of Mediterranean voyages out of Barcelona by Oct. 25 before streamer opposite a Atlantic on a 15-day repositioning journey to a USA. On Nov. 24, a vessel will start year-round, 6 and eight-day Caribbean cruises out of Miami.

A 34-year-old British male who certified to abusing children while operative as a children’s area administrator on several journey ships is streamer to jail for 4 years.

USA TODAY sister paper The Daily Echo of Southampton, England reports that Paul Trotter of Pontefract, England also will be placed on a UK’s sex offenders’ register for life and criminialized from operative with children.

The punishments, handed out by a UK decider on Friday, come after Trotter certified to a fibre of passionate assaults on 13 boys while operative on Southampton-based Cunard Line’s Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth between 2007 and 2011, a Daily Echo says. Trotter also certified to a taking, creation and possession of faulty images of a children, who were between a ages of 7 and 13, a news opening reports.

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PHOTO TOUR:  Look inside Cunard’s Queen Victoria

The Trotter case, that initial came to light final year, has lifted questions about a reserve of children on journey ships.

Cunard boss and handling executive Peter Shanks said final month after a justice conference that a line already has done changes to urge safeguards in a on-board girl centers including changing a recruitment routine for workers in a areas, introducing new training and improving on-board supervision.

“Paul Trotter was means to equivocate showing notwithstanding all of a girl staff, including Mr. Trotter, carrying had their rapist annals checked,” Shanks noted. “We have sealed circuit TV on house all of a ships, including all of a children’s clubs, and a possess manners foreordain that a smallest of dual members of staff are to be with children during all times.”

This object was created by Johanna Jainchill, who covers a transport attention for Travel Weekly. Jainchill is portion as Guest Editor of The Cruise Log while USA TODAY Cruise Editor Gene Sloan is away.

Ever wanted to take a Mediterranean cruise? Cruise line executives and tip transport agents are observant that a time to book one has never been improved than now.

Royal Caribbean International’s comparison clamp boss of sales and trade support, Vicki Freed, pronounced this week that consumers would “never find a improved value than this year” on Med sailings.

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Speaking on Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of a Seas this week during a discussion hold by Vacation.com, a nation’s largest transport representative consortium, Freed and other journey executives pronounced that summer journey prices in a Mediterranean were low adequate to equivalent a high airfares that are gripping some consumers from channel a pond.

“It’s costly to fly, though with journey fares as they are it’s an implausible value,” pronounced Norwegian Cruise Line’s executive clamp boss of tellurian sales and newcomer services, Andy Stuart.

Travel agents agreed.

“Cruise prices in Europe are really low,” pronounced Anthony Hamawy, boss of Cruise.com. “In a normal marketplace they would be dual to 3 times some-more than they are now. If we wish to go to Europe, you’re not going to kick going right now. It’s tough to trust rates will go down some-more than this.”

This object was created by Johanna Jainchill, who covers a transport attention for Travel Weekly. Jainchill is portion as Guest Editor of The Cruise Log while USA TODAY Cruise Editor Gene Sloan is away.

Royal Caribbean International will muster a 3,114-passenger Navigator of a Seas out of Galveston, Texas, for a initial time, while a 2,490-passenger Serenade of a Seas creates a entrance out of New Orleans, during a 2013-2014 Caribbean season.

The Navigator will offer two, seven-night, Western Caribbean itineraries. One will call in Falmouth, Jamaica; Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands; and Cozumel, Mexico, while a other visits Roatan, Honduras; Belize City, Belize; and Cozumel.

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The Serenade will work swapping seven-night Bahamas and Western Caribbean itineraries from New Orleans. The Bahamas channel will revisit Key West; Nassau, Bahamas; and CocoCay, Royal’s private Bahamian island. The Caribbean journey will go to Falmouth, Grand Cayman and Cozumel.

Both ships will have been given endless upgrades as partial of a fleet-wide, $300 million revitalization program that includes outfitting a line’s comparison ships with a specialty restaurants and open areas done renouned on a line’s Oasis-class vessels.

This object was created by Johanna Jainchill, who covers a transport attention for Travel Weekly. Jainchill is portion as Guest Editor of The Cruise Log while USA TODAY Cruise Editor Gene Sloan is away.

Best-selling authors Mary Higgins Clark and Lynne Truss are set to be guest speakers on Silversea Cruises’ 2013 World Cruise on a Silver Whisper.

The 115-day sailing departs Jan. 5 from Los Angeles, visiting 52 destinations in 28 countries, before finale in Fort Lauderdale.

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Clark, a torment writer whose books have sole over 100 million copies in a U.S., will be onboard from Feb. 25 – Mar 8, sailing from Hong Kong to Singapore.

Truss, a author of a bestselling Eats, Shoots Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, will be on a before segment, Feb. 4 – 25, from Sydney to Hong Kong.

They will join a different organisation of speakers via a journey that will pronounce on issues including inhabitant security, general affairs and universe history.

Ellen Bettridge, Silversea’s boss of a Americas, pronounced a line was “lining adult professors and distinguished personalities from around a creation to share insights on a different operation of topics that will both perform and illuminate the guests.”

The ship’s destinations also embody New Zealand and Australia’s remote west coast, French Polynesia’s islands and Africa’s western coast.