Travel agents are needed to help explain how the experience on one cruise line differs from that of another.
The cruise liner will sail out next week.
The container port may be in decline, but the city is luring cruise liners.
Add Royal Caribbean to the list of cruise lines adding kiosks to ships where passengers can make on-board restaurant reservations, spa appointments and more.
Simply put, the cruise lines allow Vacations to Go to re-market their unsold cabins to their exclusive and highly confidential client list at huge discounts from the regular price.
It has also achieved the highest level of recognition possible for exceptional sales and superior service from every major cruise line in the world.
To entice customers, cruise lines have cut prices dramatically, sometimes by as much as 40%.
A magician on a cruise liner had a parrot, who'd seen all the magician's tricks a million times, long ago having figured out how the magician made everything in the act disappear.
He was getting rich himself, too, by working on the cruise line.
Nearby Muttrah has a charming Mediterranean-style waterfront and a harbour now used mainly by cruise liners.
While the cruise line association does not track cruise prices, it is no secret that lines have been discounting heavily.
Vacations To Go approached the cruise lines with a way for them to sell their unsold cabins at a deep discount without affecting their full price market.
And cruise lines are reporting stronger bookings for the second half of the year after introducing special fares and other incentives, according to the cruise lines International Association.
Over the past 60 years, market leaders at the start of lasting recoveries often were stocks tied to consumer spending: hotels, resorts, cruise lines, general-merchandise stores, banks, home builders.
Another carnival cruise liner is stranded.
