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A cruise ship home porting in Bermuda has sold most of its cabins for a series of summer voyages from the island. Although operating at half capacity, the Viking Cruises website showed that the eight trips by the Viking Orion have sold the majority...

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd is planning to restart US-based cruise voyages in August, although they will only be for trips to Alaska. It is one of the major cruise operators that sails to Bermuda. Currently, Norwegian is not sailing from direc...

The owners of Bermuda’s biggest hotel are expected to discuss finance arrangements for its refurbishment in the next month, the finance minister revealed yesterday. Curtis Dickinson said Gencom, the owners of the shuttered Fairmont Southampton, had s...

The first cruise ship to come to Bermuda in more than a year, anchored off Dockyard yesterday in what was hailed as a landmark moment in the island’s recovery from Covid-19. The Viking Orion, which arrived off St David’s on Friday, moved to Grassy Ba...

Royal Caribbean has cancelled plans to homeport its Vision of the Seas ship in Bermuda for seven-night cruises to the Bahamas. But Lawrence Scott, the transport minister, said it was hoped that the cruise company would be able to resume normal schedu...

Tourism leaders reacted with disappointment yesterday after news broke that a Royal Caribbean cruise ship will not be based in Bermuda over the summer. Charles Jeffers II, the chief executive officer of the Bermuda Tourism Authority, said the announc...

Viking lines’ cruise ship Orion will drop anchor tomorrow to complete quarantine before it homeports in Bermuda. Lawrence Scott, the transport minister, said today the ship will remain in the Great Sound for six days so the 460 crew members can compl...

The temporary loss of a pilot boat because of damage caused by a collision with a reef will not interrupt services, the Ministry of Transport said yesterday. A spokeswoman admitted the damage to the St David, which struck a reef north of the island l...

Bermuda will get extra cruises this summer, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Viking Cruises has announced that the Viking Orion, scheduled to home port on the island over the summer after high demand for its “Welcome Back“ collection, would make two ex...

Norwegian Cruise Line’s newest luxury liner is to dock in Bermuda after its launch next year. The 3,215-passenger Norwegian Prima will visit the island on a five-day cruise from New York next October. The ship, under construction in an Italian shipya...

Visitor arrivals nosedived in the first three months of the year because of the pandemic, it was revealed yesterday. But tourism chiefs were optimistic that numbers could pick up later in the year as vaccination programmes around the world gather pac...

A cruise ship company is offering return flights from the US to Bermuda for as little as $99 return in a bid to attract passengers to its homeporting voyages. A report on Royal Caribbean Lines’ Royal Caribbean Blog, said Vicki Freed, the company’s s...