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Radisson Seven Seas Cruises for Six Star Cruising!

Wednesday, 24 September 2008 @ 8:21am • My Weblog

Are you looking for fabulous luxury cruise line vacations? Look no further! Radisson Seven Seas Cruises® offer customers six star cruising luxury. To emphasize this statement, you must know that Radisson Cruises has been named the prestigious World’s Best Small Cruise Line by the readers of Travel + Leisure and in 2003 by Conde Nast Traveler. The fleet of luxury ships afforded Radisson to earn a leadership role in the six star cruise industry.

Radisson Cruises is part of the Carlson Companies Inc. group, one of the largest privately held corporations in the United States. This corporation includes world renown brand names like Radisson® Hotels and Resorts, Carlson Wagonlit Travel®, Carlson Liesure Travel Services®, Cruise Holidays®, SeaMaster Cruises® and even T.G.I. Friday’s®. With that kind of name dropping, one can better understand how Radisson can provide such fantastic service and luxury.

The Radisson Commitment

Radisson Seven Seas strives as one of their objectives to provide “an ultra-luxury cruise experience” for their cruise passengers. Their cruises offer and feature additional benefits and enhancements providing their customers true and added value. Radisson offers more imaginative itineraries and unique shore excursions making for luxurious “voyages of exploration and discovery”. The Radisson staff will even custom design a special tour to accommodate your desires.

The Radisson Fleet

Next to the company’s commitment to you their valued customer, you will want to ensure that the actual venue - the cruise ships themselves - offer the “style” of pleasure or vacation cruise you desire. These luxury vessels are designed for fewer passengers than many of the other “big names” in the cruise industry. Numbering in the hundreds instead of the thousands, these cruise ships are more like large luxury yachts. At Radisson, they strive for a more personal and accommodating luxury cruise experience. The elegant ships offer beautifully designed “common” spaces as well as spacious and comfortable staterooms. Radisson has added new all-suite, all-balcony ships to their armada of luxury liners to ensure that every cruise passenger has the opportunity to travel the upscale manner they deserve. Their fleet has capacities from 320 passengers to about 700 passengers as well as an exploration vessel on which only 198 privileged passengers will experience Antarctica!

Dining with Radisson

Luxury travel of any description requires exquisite dining options. Radisson has addressed this need with chefs from Le Cordon Bleu of Paris dining options on their newest luxury ships. All of the “luxury yachts” in the Radisson stable offer excellent ding in the most elegant of dining rooms. And the intimate size of the vessels make for a comfortably luxurious dining experience.

Radisson On-board Service

Radisson Cruises prides themselves on providing their luxury cruise guests with their renowned “Above and Beyond” level of service. With a 1 to 1.5 ratio of passenger to staff, you are assured of personal, pampering service befitting a six star cruise. 24 room service is of course available and during the dining hours, you may wish to enjoy your meal in your suite. Depending on the level of your suite, butler service is available. Concierge service is even available on Seven Seas Mariner. All of this makes for a comfortable and pampered cruise experience. In Radisson’s words, “upscale, but not uptight”.

Activities Aboard Radisson

Each Radisson Voyage has a guest lecturer providing insights into the unique cultures and places you’ll be visiting. On all but the Paul Gaugan, Classes and workshops are available. Depending on the individual ship, art auctions, a well stocked library, duty free shops,dance classes and table tennis offer cruise guests a variety of diverse activities. Again, individual ships offer golf cages, shuffleboard, jogging track, and paddle tennis present cruise passengers with sports activities. Paul Gaugan has a watersports platform offering kayaking, windsurfing, waterskiing, and scuba diving. On selected voyages only, the Club Mariner Youth Program is offered with a variety of activities for children ages 6 to 11 and 12 to 17. Of course, all have the mandatory swimming pool for exercise and relaxation. The spa and fitness area amenities vary depending on the actual ship.

No matter what a luxury cruise line vacation means to you, you’ll surely be enraptured with a luxurious cruise with Radisson Seven Seas Cruises®!

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Yacht Management Made Simple

Monday, 22 September 2008 @ 4:41am • My Weblog

Yacht Management is a relatively new branch to the Yachting Industry. It has emerged through the ongoing popularity of sailing vacations, or chartering. Boat owners are opting out for the opportunity of placing their yacht in a charter fleet.

Yacht Management alleviates many of the activities that support the operations of a yacht. The responsibilities that are associated with the care of your yacht are made as pleasurable as possible, and less of a hassle. The role of yacht management is to bridge the gap between recreational and professional yachting. A “newbie”, intending to relieve their stress would benefit greatly from this. Yacht Management can make the difference of keeping a dream from becoming a nightmare.

Yacht Management & Chartering

Yacht Management is crucial when it comes to chartering a boat. Generating income with a boat isn’t easy, but in almost all cases, success depends on treating a vessel as a business. Yes, of course a boat owner will attach only recreational purposes to their boat. This is normal, most of time that is the intention. Purchasing Yachts and immediately placing them into a charter program is a growing trend, though. According to many boat owners, one of the easiest ways to slip into chartering is to get the help of a yacht management company. The Catamaran Company has a division dedicated to these kinds of services.

These services include listing the vessel with yacht brokers nationwide or internationally, so the yacht owner does not have to spend their time on advertising and marketing. The most sophisticated services take care of everything from booking the yacht, collecting payments and coordinating maintenance and repairs. In return, the management company collects a percentage of the charter income. The boat owner collects on the larger percentage of course. The Catamaran Company client profits are in the higher side of the spectrum, when considering industry standards.

Allowing, a firm take care of the management of your boat will help you offset some of the costs of buying and maintaining a boat. One of yacht managements many functions are to protect the buyer’s investment. A team of professionals will have a greater chance of prolonging the life of the investment.

Typical Catamaran Company Maintenance Services

The Catamaran Company is dedicated to making every aspect of boat ownership and use pleasurable for you, your family and your guests. Our service department can help preserve and even enhance the long-term value of one of your most important investments. We will make sure that your yacht is ready to go whenever you are.. and all in top operational condition!

Typical services include:

• Complete Yacht Services

• Varnish & Bright Work

• System inspection on a regular basis with a written report of findings & recommendations to owner

• Administer an applicable Preventative Maintenance program

• Scheduled systems operation to ensure the preventative maintenance program is effective

• Structural repairs

• Fiberglass

• Engine Overhauling, re-powering

• Hardware & hand-hold restoration or replacement

Yacht Deliveries - Satellite Tracking

The Catamaran Company can help you arrange a delivery anywhere in the world. We have partnered with industry specialists who have excellent credentials in safely delivering your yacht to a number of international destinations.

Yacht owners can now log into our special satellite system to chart the position of their yacht anywhere in the world. The system is powerful - it allows you to zoom in on the boat via special illustrative charts. Not only does this give you piece of mind knowing exactly where your yacht is in the delivery stage, but its fun.

The system functions through two main components: they are the terminal, and satellites. The terminal is the only physical element that is needed to install on the boat. It contains modern GPS and sophisticated software to achieve bi-directional communication with Inmarsat geostationary satellites.

The satellites work through the Inmarsat Network (International Maritime Satellite). This system offers world-wide coverage excluding the world’s remote regions like the North and South Poles. The four geostationary satellites are located on top of the Ecuador at around 35,500 kilometers.

If you would like to view a short clip on the delivery of a Lagoon 44 go to

http://www.catamarans.com/catamaranco/video/lp_44_Delivery.asp?bhcp=1

Private Management in British Virgin Islands, Tortola

The British Virgin Islands and the Island of Tortola exists in one of the most beautiful, quite and well preserved natural environments rivaling just about anyplace in the world to visit. Over the course of the last few years this area has proved to be one of the most fertile grounds anywhere in the world relative to the generation of income for the charter industry.

In order for these services to be optimal quality control must be implemented. Control in the quality of service must be handled by both owners and customers in the preparation of each charter as well as understanding and maintaining the yachts in our care and custody.

For more details please visit http://www.catamarans.com/

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