Flexible one week itineraries cover Barbados, St Vincent, Martinique, The Grenadines, Grenada and St Lucia with the unique feature of EasyCruise being that the ship stays in port every night, allowing passengers to choose whether to go ashore or to stay on board. In addition, as the ship arrives in port each morning there are many opportunities to go ashore during the daytime as well as at night. EasyCruise offers a range of excursions to its passengers who want to explore and get the most out of their visit to this charming and exciting part of the Caribbean.

Maintaining its commitment to rich destination experiences, Crystal Cruises is introducing its 2007 collection of ultra-luxury worldwide cruises for Crystal Symphony and Crystal Serenity. Featuring 152 different ports, the rich 2007 roster of 63 exotic, romantic, historic and tropical itineraries, range in length from seven to 109 days for the line´s 12th annual World Cruise. New for 2007 will be a return to a season cruising Asia, a call in Israel for the first time since 1999, Antarctica, more seven-day cruises than ever before, more overnight stays, an emphasis on more ports per cruise and eight maiden calls in Chile, Norway, Vietnam, Tunisia, Lithuania, Mozambique, Mexico and Russia.

Celebrity Cruises has made a giant leap toward transforming a century into a millennium in just five weeks. The line has signed with Fincantieri in Palermo, Italy, to handle the significant revitalization of its 77,713-ton Century cruise ship in 2006. The approximately $55-million makeover designed to incorporate on Century a variety of Celebrity´s most popular Millennium-class attributes marks the line´s most extensive refurbishment to-date, and the first time the company has worked directly with Fincantieri.

Norwegian Coastal Voyage (NCV) tweaked its 2006 Antarctica itinerary by adding extra days on the ice, a stop in Puerto Natales and more time in the Beagle Channel, the Strait of Magellan and Ushuaia. The line also will introduce themed programs with guest lecturers on its Coastal Odyssey voyages, focusing on Norwegian heritage, maritime traditions or the life of composer Edvard Grieg.

Carnival is to build four more ships at a total cost of £1.2 billion. The cruise giant has reached agreement with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri to construct four vessels for Holland America, Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises and Costa Crociere. There is also the option to add two more vessels, one for Carnival Cruise Line and another for Holland America. The ships will add a combined 11,756 berths to the operator´s fleet.

Residential Cruise Line, the company launching the $650-million-dollar Magellan, is now offering private ownership on the luxury liner with fractional buying opportunities. Designed exclusively for buyers who only want to own specific months each year, fractional ownership provides a unique opportunity to purchase a unit on the ship in one-month increments.