Oceania Cruises Ends Its “Never On Sale” Policy!

Goldring Travel March 4, 2013

I usually don’t write about cruises going on sale because the cruise lines have sales of one sort or another pretty much every week or so. But this one is newsworthy. Oceania Cruises has, at least in the U.S., had a “Never on Sale” policy. Combine that with some of the strictest penalty and cancellation policies

Regent Seven Seas: Ships Fuller, But Very, Very Slim Profits

Goldring Travel May 15, 2012

It is fairly common knowledge that Prestige Cruise Holdings is trying to bring Regent Seven Seas public and the most recent financial report out today doesn’t bode well for that as revenue, capacity and passenger counts are up, but profits were cut to a third of what it was a year go over the same

Regent Seven Seas Cruises and Oceania Cruises: New “No Discount” Policies Are Coming!

Goldring Travel April 17, 2012

Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises (you know the separate cruise lines that are really becoming one cruise line) are implementing a rather draconian (heavy-handed) solution to the problem of extreme discounting. First, what is this about? There is a real problem in the cruise industry where certain travel agencies are so discounting the

Oceania Cruises New, Creative, All-Inclusive Approach (The Oceania-fication of Regent Seven Seas Cruise Line – Another Chapter)

Goldring Travel March 7, 2012

In 2008 I saw a trend starting just after Apollo Management purchased both Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises and put them under the Prestige Cruise Holdings umbrella. I called it the “Oceania-fication of Regent Seven Seas Cruises”. And, over the past few years, I have written about how things have continued to impress

Regent Seven Seas Cruises Talking…Again…About a New Ship

Goldring Travel October 21, 2011

At this point it seems like a bi-annual event: Mark Conroy, President of Regent Seven Seas, commenting that there are discussions with a European yard for a new 700 passenger, 50,000 gross ton, ship. Yesterday, at the Ensemble Travel Group Annual Convention, Mark Conroy stated that Regent Seven Seas was looking at a possible 2014

Does Your Travel Agent Provide You With The Cruise or Vacation You Desire…Or The One It Gets The Most Profits From?

Goldring Travel August 3, 2011

Yesterday I read an article in Travel Market Report discussing how many travel agencies that sell premium and contemporary cruises (Oceania, Celebrity, Royal Caribbean, Princess, etc.) have significantly reduced the number of cruises they sell and are pushing their clients toward land-based vacations. The primary reason: Commissions. As the article expressly states, “It’s About The

Oceania Cruises Hit An All Time Low – Cruises at Up to 75% Off!

Goldring Travel May 11, 2011

I received notification today that Oceania Cruises is offering some very attractive cruises at some pretty incredible discounts of up to 75% off. Now, you know that I am not generally sucked in by cruise lines offering large percentages off, but 75% is something that grabs even my attention. “Off of what?”, you may ask.

The Oceania-fication of Regent Seven Seas Cruises: Regent Effectively Run Solely By Oceania Executives

Goldring Travel April 7, 2011

I know that many people, including Mark Conroy, have been a bit bitter and off-put by my claims over the past two years that Regent Seven Seas Cruises pretty much no longer exists as a DISTINCT entity/brand and that it is, little by little, being subsumed within Oceania Cruises. Today that process has gone yet

Oceania Marina – A Great Addition, But It Is NOT Luxury

Goldring Travel February 11, 2011

As many of you know I have withheld my opinion of the new Oceania Marina until she is truly operating under normal day-to-day conditions. There is no question that master marketer, Frank Del Rio, knows how to put on a show and to create buzz. That is not only because of his talents, but because

Oceania Marina and S.S. United States – Evolution and Moving On

Goldring Travel February 7, 2011

Two very interesting things happened this past week that most people probably didn’t know about, no less make a connection between: The arrival in the United States of the Oceania Marina cruise ship and the sale of the S.S. United States oceanliner. I handled the negotiation and sale of the S.S. United States to Norwegian

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