The dance craze is moving from the television screens to the Caribbean seas with cruise lines now offering entertainment for travelers with dance fever. As the popularity of TV reality dance shows surge, cruise lines are offering a variety of entertainment options in this area.

With the exchange of gifts and pleasantries underway and all the stakeholders present for the welcome party of the inaugural visit of the three-month old Norwegian Jewel, Antigua´s Tourism Minister Harold Lovell used the opportunity to forge closer ties with the cruise line. The Norwegian Jewel is the fourth ship added to the Norwegian fleet, with Antigua & Barbuda being the only port of call in the Caribbean. This –Lovell said- speaks volumes and demonstrates the confidence and the trust that is developing between Antigua & Barbuda and the Norwegian cruise lines.

Holland America Line is expanding its sun-splashed cruises to Mexico in 2007 by offering more wildlife-abundant Sea of Cortez sailings and adding a third ship featuring Mexican Riviera cruises. The Zaandam returns to the Mexican Riviera to join the Oosterdam and Ryndam in 2007 to offer a total of 42 Mexico cruises -10 more than in 2006- sailing roundtrip from the convenient homeport of San Diego.

NCL Corporation (NCL) announced that its New York year-round ship Norwegian Dawn will begin calling into Bermuda for the 2006-2007 summer seasons. Norwegian Dawn´s new seven-day itinerary with calls both into Bermuda and the Bahamas is an industry exclusive and will feature a day in Bermuda, a day at NCL´s private island Great Stirrup Cay and an overnight in Nassau.

A kaleidoscope of thrilling images and adventures await guests of the Seven Seas Mariner´s “Grand Circle South America” voyage departing from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on January 10, 2006, on a roundtrip 62-night journey which is also available in four 12- to 20-night combinable segments. Aboard and ashore, the all balcony-suite Seven Seas Mariner´s six-star luxury experience will be enhanced by a series of enrichment programs with famed ocean explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau and his Ocean Futures Society experts, plus a selection of new “Concierge Choice” shore excursions.

Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) changed up the itinerary of its New York-based ship, the Norwegian Dawn, so that it will call in Bermuda during its 2006-2007 seasons. The ship, which in 2003 pioneered a seven-day year-round cruise from New York that included two ports in Florida and two in the Bahamas, will begin a new itinerary in May that calls in Bermuda; Great Stirrup Cay, NCL´s private Bahamian island; and an overnight in Nassau, Bahamas.