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CruiseDeals.com

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Aug 15 2011


Eden Prairie, MN (Vocus) March 3, 2009

Charlotte, NC March 2, 2009– CruiseDeals.com employee and cruise blogger Rich Tucker recently won a Shorty Award from Twitter followers for engaging travelers and sending out the best travel “tweets”. Tucker, or Twitter ID @cruisesource, received the most votes in the travel category from Twitter users by offering advice, deals and lively conversations on cruising. The Shorty Awards were given out in 26 categories for providing the best content on Twitter, and the winners were honored at an awards ceremony in New York City.

“It was exciting to travel to New York to accept the Shorty Award and to meet some of our Twitter followers in person,” said Tucker, a business development specialist at CruiseDeals.com. “I think we were nominated and received the award in the travel category because I try to offer real advice and information for people interested in taking a cruise and am very quick to respond to their questions.”

CruiseDeals.com is taking a new twist on using social media by being one of the first travel companies to use Twitter to create a following of over 1,400 cruise enthusiasts. Tucker and other cruise experts at the company are providing useful information on cruising to their Twitter followers such as ship reviews, industry news and insight, special offers, and hosting fun interactive contests to give away free cruises.

“Our goal is to offer up a fun and straightforward conversation about travel and cruising for passionate cruisers and to educate those new to cruising on their options,” explained Jared Smith, General Manager of CruiseDeals.com. “We are using this new social technology to reach out and create relationships with potential cruisers, and are thrilled by how many people are interested in the information we are providing.”

Through their ongoing Twitter postings or “tweets”, the team of cruise specialists at CruiseDeals.com offer guidance on the best cruise deals of the week, as well as insight on current pricing trends to help their followers get the best value for their next cruise vacation.

“We had an overwhelming response to our first free cruise give-away on Twitter,” added Smith. “The contest required the community of travelers to watch our postings for instructions on how to win the cruise and it created a lot of excitement among the group. We expect to hold more contests like this in the future to offer a fun reward for our online audience.”

To visit Tucker on Twitter, log on to http://twitter.com/cruisesource, and to join him on an upcoming inaugural social media group cruise next November, visit http://tr.im/SoCruise or call 800-668-6414.

About CruiseDeals.com:

CruiseDeals.com is one of the largest sellers of cruise vacations on the internet and aims to provide customers with the best service and lowest prices. Experienced cruise agents are skilled in matching travelers with a cruise vacation that fulfills their dream and fits their budget.

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Feature Details Cruise Critic Cruise Options low carb increase

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Aug 12 2011

Pennington, NJ (NYSE) 28 April 2004

? A cruise is the easiest place on the planet, to maintain your diet? Laura said Sterling, director of the Cruise Critic community, and two years of low-carb diet? s managed to lose 85 pounds? even while navigating. And last week? S Announcement of Carnival Cruise Lines? what? s the installation of low-carb dishes on the menus of restaurants? is the latest effort in the cruise industry to see how healthy is it? s time.

TrendWatch: Cruise ships have been very fast low-carb? a new feature today on Cruisecritic.com, offers vision-lines of contemporary Carnival (the first one to a low-carb option debut), tradition-minded Holland America, with luxury crystal, the plan is the same.

one can travel cruise vacation option for a long time as one of the last bastions of gluttony, but the industry is in the middle of an evolution-oriented health food. Low carb is the youngest, while others, but the menus, the heart-healthy, low sodium, vegetarian and low fat options to offer to the meals. Some even offer special spa cafes.


Cruise Critic

, launched in 1995, is an interactive community of experienced cruisers and first enjoy the fun of planning, research and share their love of cruising. The website was developed by the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) awarded its Lowell Thomas Award. FREE features include reviews of nearly 200 cruise ships, the profiles of the shipping company, destination packages, and reports. Cruise Critic offers cruise deals and last minute travel deals, and breaking news at the end of cruises for professionals. Cruise Critic has the largest cruise message boards on the web traffic, with over 110,000 registered members.


Cruise Critic

is part of an online travel network are operated and published by The Independent Traveler, Inc., a privately held New Jersey Corporation. Cruise Critic’s sister site is the independent travelers.

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Cruise Critic remains before the storm is the hurricane zone

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Aug 09 2011

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Cruise Critic

, respected website for cruise travelers, announces the launch of the hurricane zone, a news resource for the minutes spent traveling exclusively on updates and weather data in relation to cruise.

section first consumer cruise result of feedback from Cruise Critic members, many of which are really worried this year? s hurricane season, which is expected to be as active as last year? s tragic span of six months.

The properties of the hurricane zone, the reports of the storm-related variations, and service-oriented features on topics such as travel insurance, a look behind the scenes look at familiar response of a cruise line? s of a hurricane. The section will host a columnist Steve Faber weeks, an aide to long trips and a resident? The area of ​​the hurricane? by the discourse? From the Desk of the Storm Master? on issues related to storm every Friday throughout the season. There? Direct Link SA discussions on Cruise Critic? S board? The most popular forum for cruise travelers to exchange views. Section and is also a map, updated courtesy of NOAA, which is dynamic over the link.

The site is constantly updated as often as the situation requires it.


About Cruise Critic

Cruise Critic is

leading cruise community and editorial site on the Internet with opinions of hotels, cruise ports profiles of highlights, cruise deals and news features, and forums Cruise assets.

celebrates its 10th Birthday this year, Cruise Critic was recently honored as a Webby Award and honored and received a bronze medal in the prestigious Society of American Travel Writers? Lowell Thomas Award. The site and was acclaimed in publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post and Kiplinger? S Personal Finance, among others, and was by Travel + Leisure? S The 35 best travel websites.


Cruise Critic

is published by The Independent Traveler, Inc., a village near New Jersey Corporation.

for reprint permission rights, links or more information, contact

Vicki Flores, marketing manager at 609-730-9155 x 16

CONTACT:

Carolyn Spencer Brown, editor

609-730-9155 X17

editor@cruisecritic.com

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Direct Line Cruises Welcomes Celebrity Cruises to NY-NJ Market

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Aug 06 2011


Hauppauge, NY (PRWEB) March 10, 2009

After a two-year absence, Celebrity Cruises has just announced that they will resume cruises to Bermuda round-trip from Bayonne, New Jersey (across from the Statue of Liberty) starting in 2010. Better yet, these 7-night Bermuda cruises will be on the 5-star Celebrity Summit, one of the elegant Millennium-class ships.

To celebrate the good news, a festive “Celebrity Is Back” party was held for the staff at Direct Line Cruises on March 6, hosted by Marie La Cava of Celebrity Cruises. In explaining why this particular deployment was so significant, Marie offered this historical perspective. “Although Celebrity Cruises merged with Royal Caribbean in 1997 and now offers cruises to virtually every corner of the world, Celebrity Cruises has its roots right here when it started offering 7-night cruises to Bermuda round-trip from New York City on the Celebrity Meridian back in 1989″. Adding to that perspective, Greg Coiro, CEO of Direct Line Cruises recalled that “When Direct Line Cruises started in business nearly 15 years ago, almost 90% of the cruises we booked were Celebrity cruises to Bermuda. So, although Direct Line Cruises has expanded dramatically over time, our company is also deeply rooted in this product.”

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