Victory Cruise Lines will launch a new “LakeLorian” program in 2025 in partnership with the National Museum of the Great Lakes.
07.10.2024 - 03:29 / insider.com / Royal Caribbean
A lot can happen in nine years — more than two presidential terms and your child's high school and college graduation, for example.
In the case of Norwegian Cruise Line, nine years means the difference between a bare-boned ship and one with show-stopping amenities.
Two Business Insider reporters sailed on Norwegian's 11-year-old Norwegian Breakaway and two-year-old Norwegian Prima. (Reporter Taylor Rains spent seven nights on Breakaway in mid-September, while Brittany Chang joined Prima's complimentary four-night inaugural press sailing in late 2022.)
The older (though still young by industry standards) and larger Breakaway has a capacity of about 3,900 guests — 800 more than Prima. And yet, Prima was notably more amenity-heavy and extravagant, showcasing Norwegian's — and the general mass-market cruise industry's — evolving preference for amusement park-like ships.
Victory Cruise Lines will launch a new “LakeLorian” program in 2025 in partnership with the National Museum of the Great Lakes.
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Norwegian Cruise Line is now the official cruise line of the National Hockey League.
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I took my first river cruise somewhat reluctantly. It was on my mom's bucket list, and I love my mom. So I agreed to a Columbia and Snake River cruise on American Cruise Lines that would take us from Idaho through Washington to Oregon, with stops in sleepy towns ripe with Lewis and Clark history.
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This story ran as part of the 2024 Readers’ Choice Awards. To find out all the winning cruises, read here.
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