QE2 Sold!!!
June 21, 2007 by admin ·
QE2 Sold!!!, Cunard’s grand old lady is set to be sold to Dubai World in November 2008 after her last cruise. With new legislation the cost of updating QE2 was deemed by Cunard to be Prohibitive, hence the sale.
QE2 will be transformed into a luxury hotel, the same fate as Queen Mary and placed at the retail and entertainment complex in Dubai’s The Palm Jumeirah, the world’s largest man-made island.
The cost $100 million. More details about QE2 Sold will appear here shortly.
Carnival sell out to Royal Caribbean!
June 4, 2007 by admin ·
No not the company, Carnival have sold their first ever new build to Royal Caribbean. Carnival Tropicale was built in 1982 at 35,000 she is capable of carrying 1,350 passenger and marked a new era in the rise of the Carnival Corporation by being the first of numerous subsequnt new builds.
With newer and larger ships being built Carnival off loaded the Carnival Tropicale to Costa Cruises, where after a $30M refit she became Costa Tropicale. This move was short lived and in 2005 Carnival moved her from Costa Cruises to the P&O Cruises Australia fleet. Renamed Pacific Star she is currently cruising in the southern hemisphere.
The deal between Royal Caribbean and Carnival is undisclosed and as of the Pacific Star, well she will be moving to Pullmantur, the Spanish cruise line purchased by Royal Caribbean in 2006. As of yet her fourth “new” name is unknown. The date of transfer is also unannounced, however it is likely to coinside with the arrival of the 70,000-ton Pacific Dawn, Australia’s first superliner, as she joins the fleet in October 2007.
