Table Of Content
- ITF aiding the repatriation of crew on 6 Global Cruise Lines' ships
- Service history
- things you need to know about Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas
- Marco Polo - 50 years of ocean cruising on original main engines
- Carnival Ship Rescues 27 People Adrift at Sea in the Caribbean
- CMV Marco Polo staterooms review, floor plans, photos
The public areas are quite small yet furnished and with spacious ambience. Day time activities include bingo, golf sessions and lectures as well as trivia games. Night time entertainment involves ballroom dancing events, live shows and live music performances. There are various lounges and bars on board like the Captain’s Club and Columbus Lounge and the Scott’s Bar.
ITF aiding the repatriation of crew on 6 Global Cruise Lines' ships
Most passenger accommodations are with 2 fixed single beds, Only a small number of rooms have convertible beds or fixed queen/king sized beds. Most Standard Plus and below outside rooms are with a porthole window. Due to the ship’s old design cabin windows’ sizes vary by deck and location – from slightly bigger than porthole to nearly floor-ceiling. The CMV Marco Polo cruise ship cabins page is conveniently interlinked with its deck plans showing deck layouts combined with a legend and review of all onboard venues.
Service history
Complimentary in-cabin Continental breakfast is available between 7 – 10 am (cereals, bread, pastries, yogurt, fruits, juices, hot drinks). Oceanview cabins have either Picture Window or Porthole Window, depending on deck location. Standard Plus (Cat 8) and lower grades outside cabins are with portholes, higher grades are with windows. The Marco Polo lounge is the place to go for show tunes and high kicks. For more sedate music, head to the Palm Garden for classical music and afternoon tea.
things you need to know about Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas
Biddings (deadline in brackets) opened for Vasco Da Gama (Oct 8), Columbus (Oct 12), Astor (Oct 15), Magellan (Oct 19) and Marco Polo (Oct 22). Purchased by Global Maritime Group in 2007 and currently operated by UK-based Cruise & Maritime Voyages, the vessel was built in 1965 at Mathias Thesen Shipyard in eastern Germany. Due to its age, Marco Polo is not suitable for passengers with special mobility needs. There are many raised-door seals that can restrict passenger movement about the ship.
Fellow passengers are affluent, middle-aged, well-travelled and mostly repeat guests. MS Marco Polo has a classic profile, traditional dark hull and teak decks. Marco Polo refits have kept accommodation, public rooms, guests' facilities, and navigational technology up to date. The compact size of the vessel helps access smaller ports, in which bigger vessels do not venture. MS Marco Polo cruise ship was last owned by Global Maritime Group and operated under charter by the UK-based travel company Cruise And Maritime Voyages (CMV). The 1965-built vessel was constructed in East Germany by Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar (now Lloyd Werft Wismar GmbH) as "MS Aleksandr Pushkin" for Baltic Shipping Company (USSR / Soviet Union).
Its surprising decor, however, combines lacquer-red walls, bamboo-and-conservatory style furniture and green plants, delivering an altogether less tranquil message. Marco Polo has been the subject of a television programme in the series Mighty Cruise Ships (a spin-off of Mighty Ships) which documented the 2013 voyage to St Petersburg, Russia, and the Baltic States.
MS Marco Polo Reaches the End and Beached in India - Cruise Hive
MS Marco Polo Reaches the End and Beached in India.
Posted: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:00:00 GMT [source]
Marco Polo - 50 years of ocean cruising on original main engines
Emerging as Orient Lines' ms Marco Polo, the cruise ship specialized in expedition voyages to the Far East. A helicopter was available on the purpose-built helipad deck to observe whales and wildlife. Eventually, in 2008 Marco Polo was sold to Greece's Global Maritime Group Inc (Global Cruise Lines, current shipowner) but continues to be operated by CMV. The 820-passenger ship Marco Polo is among the top choices for small ship travel vacations out of the UK.
Carnival Ship Rescues 27 People Adrift at Sea in the Caribbean
Just days ago it was also reported that Costa Victoria is heading to be scrapped at the Aliaga facility in Turkey. She will join three Fantasy-class vessels that were once part of Carnival Cruise Line and two former Royal Caribbean ships that were scrapped after Pullmantur went out of business. In 2015, the cruise ship celebrated its 50th anniversary with 2 themed voyages. "First Commemorative Anniversary Cruise" from the UK to Canada and Greenland, departures from Rosyth (July 23) and from Tilbury (July 24). The 36-night roundtrip visited Nova Scotia, Montreal, Quebec, and St Lawrence River. The "Second Commemorative Cruise" from the UK to Canada from Tilbury (September 7) was a 35-days roundtrip to Canada via Amsterdam Holland and Cherbourg France.
Inside cabins were added and her superstructure was extended forward so more public spaces could be created, most important her main lounge was extended forward and now featured a balcony, thus becoming a “grand ballroom’. For CMV Marco Polo cruise passengers with disabilities, there are only 2 accessible cabins equipped for passengers with mobility limitations plus their travel companions. Both staterooms are on Amundsen Deck 9 (numbers 655-aft and 631-forward).
Marco Polo stands out being on of the few ships that do not carry thousands of passengers and her intimate atmosphere attract a loyal following. It is unbelievable, but she is still sailing with her original Sulzer machinery and she has covered an incredible distance with them. There are 15 accommodation categories on Marco Polo, and the ship’s 425 well-maintained, brightly decorated rooms in blue, green, and red are adequately spacious and vary in size. All cabins have individual thermostats, safes, direct-dial phones, waffle-style bathrobes, and TVs. The most luxurious Deluxe suite on deck 7 has a separate living area, minibar, 19-inch flat-screen TV, and walk-in wooden mirrored closet. Its attached marble bathroom is equipped with a shower and bath, towels, bathrobes, slippers, and hair dryer.
It's Official: The Marco Polo Is Getting Scrapped - Cruise Industry News
It's Official: The Marco Polo Is Getting Scrapped.
Posted: Mon, 04 Jan 2021 08:00:00 GMT [source]
At this writing, the intimate 700-passenger Discovery was scheduled to join the Cruise and Maritime Voyages fleet in February 2013, under charter in association with the widely respected All Leisure Holidays. Her last trans atlantic voyage was in 1980, she switched to fulltime cruising now. From 1979 to 1984, Alexandr Pushkin served the German market and sailed for Transocean Cruises. After this, she was transferred to another Soviet shipping company, the Far Eastern shipping Company, with homeport Vladivostok. During her final days under the Soviet flag she was chartered to CTC Cruises, for whom she sailed out of Europe and Australia.
While the line had a steady client base for many years, it was to be one of the first victims in the cruise industry to succumb to the pandemic’s effects. Chief engineer Georgios Katsifarakis is a huge enthusiast for his ship describing her as ‘the last Rolls-Royce from the golden era of travelling at sea’. The 100-page commemorative book plots the vessel’s 50 years in great detail and draws together a collection of historic and modern images of the ship. MS Marco Polo is an adults-only (child-free) ship targeting the UK luxury cruise market. The age requirement is 16+ years old (teenagers must be accompanied by adult/s).
