Holland America Line will offer Caribbean
sailings of up to 20 days in 2008, part of the 121 sailings it will
offer to the Caribbean next year, the line's largest deployment in
the region to date.
HAL said that it is
focusing on "longer, port-intensive options" for its Caribbean
itineraries, and said that it leads major cruise lines with
sailings of 10 days or more in the region.
The line will
introduce its newest ship, the 2,104-passenger Eurodam, to
Caribbean cruising in 2008, one of 10 vessels it will sail in the
region out of Fort Lauderdale, Tampa and New York.
The Eurodam, which
is scheduled to debut next summer, will sail three- and seven-day
eastern Caribbean itineraries through April, 2009.
HAL said that in
October 2008, the Maasdam would take over the 14-day southern
Caribbean cruise previously offered on the Veendam from Fort
Lauderdale; the Veendam will switch to seven-day western Caribbean
sailings and the Noordam will pick up the Maasdam's former 10-day
southern Caribbean cruises from Fort Lauderdale.
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