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Island Cruises to make Caribbean debut
Island Cruises is to make its debut in the Caribbean with three fly-cruise itineraries from Barbados.
One of the company’s two ships will operate a series of 14-night sailings in winter 2008-09.
The Island Star will sail from Barbados between December 4, 2008 and March 26, 2009 on 14-night itineraries.
Twenty ports of call will be featured across the different sailings, including Grand Cayman, Panama Canal, Jamaica, Cartagena (Columbia), Aruba and Grenada.
Prices start at £1,099 from Gatwick on December 4, 2008 based on two adults sharing an inside cabin. Flights are also available from Manchester, Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin with no flight supplements for early bookers.
Managing director Patrick Ryan said: “We have carried over 350,000 British guests in the Mediterranean over the last six summers and our excellent satisfaction levels have created a loyal customer base. From December 2008 we will be giving these customers an Island Cruises winter holiday option for the first time.
“This brand new Caribbean programme opens up a whole new region for our guests providing port intensive cruising for first-timers to the Caribbean, a bit of Latin America on a Panama Canal adventure for the more experienced and an unusually expansive itinerary that takes in diverse ports from the east and west of the Caribbean Sea.”
The itineraries:
| Day: | Classic Caribbean | Eastern Caribbean | Latin Caribbean |
| 1 | Barbados | Barbados | Barbados |
| 2 | Barbados | Barbados | Barbados |
| 3 | Sea | Sea | Sea |
| 4 | Aruba | Trinidad | Curacao |
| 5 | Sea | Tobago | Sea |
| 6 | Montego Bay | Grenada | Cartagena |
| 7 | Grand Cayman | St Vincent | Sea |
| 8 | Sea | St Lucia | Limon |
| 9 | Sea | Sea | Panama |
| 10 | Isla Catalina | St Kitts | Sea |
| 11 | Tortola | Antigua | Aruba |
| 12 | St Martin | Sea | Sea |
| 13 | St Kitts | Martinique | Trinidad |
| 14 | St Lucia | Dominica | Grenada |
| 15 | Barbados | Barbados | Barbados |
by Phil Davies
Phil Davies
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