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Abercrombie & Kent
1520 Kensington RoadOak Brooke, Illinois 60523-2156
Tel: 1-800-323-7308
Fax: 1-630-954-3324
UK Office
http://abercrombiekent.com 
Explorer II*  352p Bahamas Registry

Sea Cloud* 69p  Malta Registry

*Chartered

For more than forty years, Abercrombie & Kent (A&K) has been recognized as a leader in luxury adventure travel. Started in 1962 as a safari company in Nairobi, Kenya, A&K's travel and tour operations now extend across the globe. Today, Abercrombie & Kent represents a fleet of top-rated canal and river cruisers, both hotel vessels and private charters, which travel on the waterways of Britain, Ireland, Scotland, and France and Holland as well in other regions of the world. Of the barges and river vessels operated, A&K owns the Sun Boat III and IV that offer a range of cruises on the Nile in Egypt—from an eight-day Pharaohs and Pyramids cruise on Sunboat III to a three-day cruise on Sunboat IV as part of a 10-day tour of Egypt for families. All other vessels are chartered

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African Safari Club Ltd.
Imperial House
Bromley, Kent
BR1 1SD United Kingdom
Tel – 084-5345 0014
Fax – 020- 8466 0020
Email - info@africansafariclub.com
Explorer II*  352p Bahamas Registry

M/S Royal Star 200 p Bahamas Registry
African Safari Club offers four- to 18-night cruises on the Indian Ocean. Ports of call include the Seychelles, the Mascarene Island of Mauritius, La Reunion, Madagascar, the Cormoros and Zanzibar.
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Aida Cruises (Seetours)
Am Seehafen 1
Siemenstrasse 90
63203 New Isenberg
Germany
Website: www.aidacruises.de
AIDAcara        1,186 p    UK

Aida Blu          1,596p    UK

AIDAvita          1,582p     UK

AIDAura          1,582p     UK
Aida Cruises is owned by Seetours, a subsidiary of P&O Princess Cruises, which, in turn is owned by Carnival & Plc. The cruises are geared for the German-speaking trade.
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A’Rosa Cruises (Seetours)
Am Seehafen 1
Siementrasse 90
63203 New Isenberg
Germany
Tel: 018039-27672
www.a-rosa.de
A’ROSA Blu               1,596            UK
A’Rosa Cruises is part of Seetours, which, in turn is owned by POPrincess Cruises, now part of Carnival Corporation & Plc. The cruises are aimed at the German-speaking trade.
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American Canadian Caribbean Line
461 Water Street
Warren, Rhode Island 02885
PO Box 368
Tel: 1-800-556-7450
Tel: 1-401-247-0955
Fax: 1401-247-2350
www.accl-smallships.com
Grande Caribe   100 p US Registry

Grande Mariner 100 p US Registry

Niagara Prince    84 p US Registry
Off - the -beaten - track cruises by a company offering year-round voyages from the northern waters of Labrador and Newfoundland, to the Great Lakes, to the southerly tropics of the Caribbean and Central America. The ships are uniquely designed to cruise waterways that bigger ships can't.
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American Cruise Lines
American Cruise Lines, Inc.
741 Boston Post Road, Suite 200
Guilford, CT 06437
Tel: 800-814-6880 / 203-453-6800
Fax: 203-453-0417
www.americancruiselines.com 
American Eagle   49 p  US Registry

American Glory   49 p  US Registry

American Spirit*100 p  US Registry

American Cruise Lines’ small ships explore the waterways of the Eastern US.

*Debuts in 2005.

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Blackbeard's Cruises

PO Box 66-1091
Miami, FL 33266
Lautoka, Fiji Islands
Email:
beth@blackbeard-cruises.com
Website:
www.blackbeard-cruises.com

Pirate's Lady 24 p

Morning Star 24 p

Sea Explorer 24 p

Cat Pplau 16 p

Aqua Cat 22 p
Started 25 years ago, Blackbeard Cruises operates three Coast Guard sailboats that can be chartered for diving excursions in the outer isleands of the Bahamas. The Cat Ppalu's is a schooner-rigged catamaran that can be chartered for pleasure/research cruises to the northern Exhumas in the Bahamas. The Aqua Cat is a 102-foot catamaran that is set up for individuals or group charters.
Blackbeard's Charters does all the bookings for the vessels.
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Blue Lagoon Cruises
Post Office Box 130
183 Vitogo Parade,
Lautoka, Fiji Islands
Fax: 1-630-954-3324
Tel: 679 666-1622
Fax 679 666-4098
Email: blc@connect.com.fi
www.bluelagooncruises.com
*  MV Mystique Princess 72 p Fiji Registry

MV Nanuya Princess   52 p Fiji Registry

MV Yasawa Princess   66 p Fiji Registry

MV Lycianda               44 p Fiji Registry
Blue Lagoon’s small vessels cruise around the Fiji islands.
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Bora Bora Cruises
PO Box 40186
Fare Tony-Vaiete
98713 Papeete, Tahiti
French Polynesia
Tel +689 544 505
689-54-45-17 (N/SAmerica)
Fax +689 451 065
E-Mail:   commercial@boraboracruises.com
Website: www.boraboracruises.com
Tu Moana  37 p   Tahiti Registry

Ti Moana   37 p   Tahiti Registry
Bora Bora Cruises operates trips in French Polynesia
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Canadian Sailing Expeditions
PO Box 2613
Halifax NS B3J 3N5
Phone: 902 429 1474
Toll Free: 877 429 WIND
Email: mailto:info@cansailexp.com
Website: www.cansailexp.com
http://www.canadiansailingexpeditions.com/
Caledonia 80p Canada Registry

Canadian Sailing Expeditions provides premier coastal cruising adventures to extraordinary destinations.

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Captain Cook Cruises
No.6 Jetty, Circular Quay
Sydney NSW 2000 (Australia)
Phone: + 61 2 9206 1122
Fax: +61 2 9251 4725
Email: cruise@captaincook.com.au
Website: www.cansailexp.com http://www.captaincook.com.au/
MV Reef Endeavour 168 p
Reef Escape/Dro Ki Cakau. 120 p
Spirit of the Pacific (topsail schooner)
PS Murray Princess (paddlewheeler) 120 p
Nine Sydney Harbour cruise vessels

Captain Cook Cruises specializes in small-ship destination cruises in Australia and the Pacific. An Australian family owned and operated company for 35 years Captain Cook Cruises now offer passengers a wide variety of scheduled cruises on Australia's three major waterways—Sydney Harbour, the Murray River, the Great Barrier Reef— and also in the Fiji Islands.

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Carnival Cruise Lines
3655 N.W. 87 Avenue
Miami, Florida 33178
Tel: 1-305-599-2600
Fax: 1-630-954-3324
1-800-CARNIVAL
Fax: 1-305-599-8630
website: www.carnival.com    
Holiday Class (three ships):

Holiday            1,452 p Bahamas Registry
Jubilee,            1,486 p Bahamas Registry
Celebration       1,486 p Panama Registry

Fantasy Class (eight ships):

Fantasy               2,056 p Panama Registry
Ecstasy,              2,052 p Panama Registry
Sensation           2,052 p Bahamas Registry
Fascination         2,052 p Bahamas Registry
Imagination         2,052 p Bahamas Registry
Inspiration           2,052 p Bahamas Registry
Elation                  2,052 p Panama Registry
Paradise                2,052 p Panama Registry

Destiny Class (3 ships)


Carnival Destiny 2,642 p; Bahamas Registry
Carnival Triumph 2,758 p Bahamas Registry
Carnival Victory     2,758 p Panama Registry

Spirit Class (4 ships):

Carnival Spirit        2,124 p Panama Registry
Carnival Pride -      2,124 p Panama Registry
Carnival Legend    2,124 p Panama Registry
Carnival Miracle     2,974 p Panama Registry

Conquest Class:

Carnival Conquest  2,976 p  Panama Registry
Carnival Glory        1,976 p Panama Registry

Carnival Cruise Lines has been operating for more than a quarter of a century and was instrumental in the changes that have incurred in the cruise industry. The company was founded in 1972 by Ted Arison, a Florida-based businessman who wanted to make a vacation experience available for the average person. Together with a Boston travel agency, they bought the TSS Mardi Gras (the former Empress of Canada) and launched her when on her maiden voyage, she promptly ran aground. Eventually Arison took over the debt-ridden company, assumed its multimillion debt, bought The Empress of Britain for a pittance (renamed her the TSS Carnivale), and created the “fun ship’’ logo-moves, which boosted sales and turned a profit in Arison’s first year as sole owner.

Over the next two decades, the company added more ships and introduced trend-setting superliners-Celebration, Holiday and Jubilee. In 1990, the first of the six new Fantasy class vessels, the 70,367-ton Fantasy, made her debut By 1996, with six Fantasy-Class ships added to the fleet, the company introduced the first Destiny Class passenger vessel to exceed 100,00 tons, the Carnival Destiny, which at the time became the world’s largest cruise ship. By 2002, the company had added two more Fantasy-Class vessels and two more Destiny-Class ships.

In 2001, the first of the new Spirit Class vessels, the Carnival Spirit made her debut. By spring 2004, three more Spirit-Class vessels were launched.

In 2002, Carnival introduced the Conquest Class with its largest ship to date, Carnival Conquest, at 110,000 gross and passenger capacity at 2,974. A year later Carnival Glory made its debut. By spring of 2005, two more Conquest-class ships will have been added: Carnival Valor and Cardinal Liberty. Both the Spirit and Conquest class of ship are not able to transport the Panama Canal.

Along the way, cruise lines were added and Ted Arison’s son Micky Arison came on board working his way up to president of Carnival in 1979. In 1990 he was appointed chairman of the line. When the parent company, Carnival Corporation, was formed in 1994, Arison assumed the chairmanship.) Micky Arison engineered the acquisition in 1989 of Holland American Line and Windstar Cruises, and partial ownership in Seabourn Cruise Line in 1992; four years later Carnival owned 50 percent of the company.

In 1997, Carnival bought part ownership in Airtours, a European tour company, and together the companies bought Costa Cruises. The following year Carnival acquired a majority interest in Cunard from the line’s parent company Kvaerner ASA and purchased the remaining shares in fall 1998. In 2000, Carnival bought out Airtours’ shares of Costa and took 100 percent ownership of the Italian line. On April 17, 2003, agreements were finalized to combine Carnival Corporation with P & O Princess Cruises plc, creating a dually merged company.

Carnival Corporation & plc is the largest cruise - vacation group in the world, with a portfolio of 12 cruise brands in North America, Europe and Australia, comprised of Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, Seabourn Cruise Line, Windstar Cruises, AIDA, Costa Cruises, Cunard Line, Ocean Village, P&O Cruises, Swan Hellenic, and P&O Cruises Australia. Carnival Corporation & plc also operates the leading tour companies in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon, Holland America Tours and Princess Tours.

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Celebrity Cruises
1050 Caribbean Way 
Miami, Florida 33132
Tel: 1-305-539-6000
Email: info@rccl.com
www.celebritycruises.com
Zenith 1,374 Bahamas Registry

Horizon 1,354 p Bahamas Registry

Century 1,750 p Bahamas Registry

Century 1,750 p Bahamas Registry

Galaxy 1,870 p Bahamas Registry

Mercury 1,870 p Panama Registry

Millennium 1,950 Bahamas Registry

Infinity 1,950 p Bahamas Registry

Summit 1,950 p Bahamas Registry

Constellation 1,950 p Bahamas Registry

Celebrity Xpedition 98 Ecuador Registry

Kapitan Khlebnikov* 108 p Russia Registry

*Kapitan Khlebnikov, offering cruises to the Arctic and Antarctic, is chartered from Quark Expeditions.

Celebrity Cruises was founded in 1989 by the owners of the Chandris Line to offer upscale cruises at moderate prices. Today, it is operated as a separate brand by Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd, the company formed when Celebrity and Royal Caribbean International merged in 1997. In 2001, the parent company launched Royal Celebrity Tours, which offers integrated land-and-sea packages.

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Classical Cruises
Please refer to Travel Dynamics International
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Clipper Cruise Line
11969 Westline Industrial Drive
St. Louis, Missouri 63146-3220
Tel: 1-314-655-6700
1-800-325-10
1-800-325-11
Fax: 1-314-727-6576
Email: clipper@clippercruise.com
Website: www.clippercruise.com
M/S Clipper Adventurer 122 p Bahamas Registry

Clipper Odyssey 128 p     Bahamas Registry

Nantucket Clipper 100 p US Registry

Yorktown Clipper 138 p US Registry
Clipper Cruise Line was founded in 1982 by St. Louis-businessman Barney Ebsworth. The line then was acquired by INTRAV, a St. Louis, Missouri- based travel operator of deluxe international tours and air/sea packages. Two years later, INTRAV and Clipper were acquired by Kuoni, a Swiss tour company. Clipper today offers a wide array of international and domestic light-adventure voyages aboard its four small ships.
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Club Med
75 Valencia Avenue
Suite 1200
Coral Gables, Florida 33134
Fax: 1-630-954-3324
Tel: 1.800-Club Med
1.480-948-9190 (outside US)

France Contact:
Tel: 33-08-36-35-35-35
Website: www.clubmed-cruises.com
Club Med 2    394 p     Wallis & Fortuna
Owned by the all- inclusive resort company Club Med, the Club Med 2 was built at a French shipyard and sports five 221-foot masts and the latest navigational technology. Caters to youthful guests with her contemporary facilities in a relaxed but trendy setting.
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Compagnie des Iles du Ponant
60, Blvd. du Maréchal
Alphonse Juin
44100 Nantes, France
Tel: 33-2-40-58-14-95
Fax: 33-2-40-58-27-02
Email: info@ponant.com
Website: www.ponant.com

US Office
:

Conlin Travel/US Reservation Center
3270 Washtenaw Avenue
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
Tel: 888-272-2865
1-734-477-6023
Fax: 1-734-677-1428
Email: lelevant@conlintravel.com
Website: www.lelevant.com
MS Le Levant* 90 p France Registry

SY Le Ponant    64 p France Registry
*In summer, Le Levant offers cruises on the Great Lakes.
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Compagnie des Iles du Ponant/Tapis Rouge
39 Rue Marbeuf
75 008 Paris
Tel: 01 42 56 55 00
Fax: 01 45 63 01 51 (fax)
Website:www.tapis-rouge.fr
Le Diamant 8282 198 p Wallis&Fortuna
This company caters to a younger, hip French-speaking traveler/cruiser
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Costa Cruise Lines (Costa Crociere S.p.A)
200 South Park Road
Suite 200
Hollywood, Florida 33021
Tel: 1-954-266-5600
Fax: 1-954-266-2100

Italy Contact:

Costa Crociere S.p.A
Via XII Ottobre 2
16121 Genoa, Italy
Tel: 39-10-5483-396
Fax: 39-10-5483-267
Website: www.costacruises.com 

Costa Atlantica    2,114 p Italy Registry

Costa Romantica  1,356 p Italy Registry

Costa Victoria      1,928 p Italy Registry

Costa Classica      1,308 p Italy Registry

Costa Allegra           820 p Italy Registry

Costa Tropicale     1,022 p Italy Registry


Costa Europa         1,494 p Italy Registry

Costa Marina*          772 p  Italy Registry

Costa Magica          2,720 p Italy Registry

Costa Mediterranea 2,114 p Italy Registry

Costa Fortuna          2.720 p Italy Registry

*Dedicated to the German market

Costa’s parent company, Genoa-based Costa Crociere S.p.A., has been involved in the passenger side of shipping for nearly fifty years. The Costa brand first appeared on the Italian market in 1854 when Giacomo Costa founded a company trading in fabrics and olive oil between Genoa and Sardinia. By 1916,the company was now under the direction of Giacomo’s three sons. They expanded the business and purchased their first ship, Ravenna in 1924, and soon after, the Langano. In the 1930s, Costa, now a major producer of olive oil in Italy, began the tradition of naming their ships after the names of family member. By 1942, Costa’s fleet was made up of nine vessels. After World War II, only the Langano survived.

The family then turned to building and purchasing ships for coastal navigation and started passenger services in 1947 with the sailing of the motor ship Anna C, the first of the Costa fleet to offer air conditioning. The company changed its name to Linea C, which it kept for over three decades on transatlantic links with Latin America. Business services were inaugurated in 1948 to North America and in 1953, the company opened new routes to Venezuela and the Antilles.

In the ensuing years, the company added ships, leased some and owned others, as it streamlined its operations. In the 1980s the Costa group decided to concentrate on the passenger and cruise sector. In 1986, Costa Crociere S.p.A. was created and the idea of a ship as a floating hotel was established. In 1989 the company invited outside investors to increase its financial strength which led to tremendous growth for the company in the 1990s. In June 1997, Costa was purchased by Carnival Corporation and Airtours plc, its European partner at the time. The deal increased the investment capacity of the Genoese company but left its Italian identity untouched. In September 2000, Carnival Corporation purchased all of Airtours’ shares and became the sole shareholder of Costa Crociere.

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Cruceros Australis
4014 Chase Avenue
Suite 202
Miami Beach, FL 33140
Tel. 305-695-9618
Toll Free: 877-678-3772
Fax: 305-534-9276
Email: australis@bellsouth.net
Website: www.australis.com

Chile Address:

Av. El Bosque Norte 0440
Piso 1
Santiago, Chile
Tel. 562-442-3110
Fax. 562-203-5173
Email: rmendes@australis.com
 
MV Mare Australis 129 p   Chile Registry

Cruceros Australis was founded in 1990 to for cruises in the Chilean-Argentinian Patagonia. The company operates the Mare Australis, an expedition ship which offers

expeditionary cruises to remote areas in Southern Patagonia, Beagle Chanel and Cape Horn. A second ship, Via Australis, will debut in November 2005

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Cruise West
2401 Fourth Avenue
Suite 700
Seattle, Washington 98121-1438
Tel: 1-800-580-0072
Fax: 1-206-441-4757
www.cruisewest.com
Email: info@cruisewest.com
Spirit of Oceanus 114 p Bahamas Registry

Spirit of ’98    96 p US Registry

Spirit of Endeavour 102 p US Registry

M/V Pacific Explorer 100 p Honduras Registry

Spirit of Columbia 78 p US Registry

Spirit of Alaska 78p US Registry

Spirit of Discovery 84 p US Registry

Sheltered Seas 70 p US Registry
US-owned Cruise West offers adventure travel on its cruises in North and Central America.
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Crystal Cruises Inc.   
2049 Century Park East, Suite 1400
Los Angeles, California 90067
Fax: 1-630-954-3324
Tel: 1-310-785-9300
1-866-446-6625
Fax: 1-310-785-3891
www.crystalcruises.com
Crystal Harmony   960 p Bahamas Registry

Crystal Symphony 960 p Bahamas Registry

Crystal Serenity 1,100 p Bahamas Registry
Crystal Cruises, created in 1988, is wholly owned by Tokyo-based Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), which began operating its first commercial ship in 1885. Headquartered in Tokyo, the firm operates over 800 ships, has offices around the globe and is one of the largest shipping companies in the world.
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Cunard Line
6100 Blue Lagoon Drive
Suite 400
Miami, Florida 33126
Tel: 1-800-6273
Fax: 1-305-463-3010

Address as of December 2004

24303 Town Center Drive
Suite 200
Valencia, California 91355-0908

UK Office:

Cunard Line Ltd
Mountbatten House
Grosvenor Square
Southampton S015 2BF
England
Fax (011-44-0238) 022-5843
Website: www.cunard.com
Queen Elizabeth 2 1,791 p UK Registry

Queen Mary 2 2,620 p UK Registry

*Caronia 665 p UK Registry

**Queen Victoria  2,000 p  UK Registry

*Scheduled to leave Cunard in November 2004, the ship will sail for Saga Cruises under the name Saga Ruby.

**Scheduled to debut in 2007.

Cunard Line dates back to 1840, when its founder Samuel Cunard began steam-powered crossings of the Atlantic. In succeeding decades, the company built and operated a high impressive fleet of ocean liners. But with the growing popularity of the jet age in the 1960s, the company adjusted by converting some of their ships to modern cruising. In 1969, the line’s flagship Queen Elizabeth 2 made her debut and continued to cross the Atlantic on a regular basis. (The ocean liner has under gone several multimillion dollar refurbishments, the most recent in 1999. Originally powered by steam turbines, in 1986 she was refit with a diesel-electric propulsion system for greater speed and efficiency.)

In 1971 Trafalgar House, based in London, acquired Cunard. In the 1980s Cunard acquired two more cruise ships and added the twin Sea Goddesses I and II to it fleet. In 1994, Cunard acquired the Royal Viking Sun.

 In 1996, Norwegian company Kvaerner ASA took over Trafalgar House and Cunard underwent massive changes again. In 1998 Kvaerner sold the Cunard Cruise Line to Carnival Corporation and a group of Norwegian investors, who then merged it with the Yachts of Seabourn. A year later the Royal Viking Sun and the two Goddesses were transferred to Seabourn and renamed, leaving only the QE2 and the Vistafjord, which was renamed the Caronia after Cunard’s original ship that sailed in the 1950’s and 1960’s and which introduced World Cruises.

Maintaining the legacy of her Cunard and White Star Line predecessors, the QE2 is an authentic ocean liner and is the fastest ship afloat with a speed of nearly 30 knots. She will bequeath regular transatlantic crossings to sister ship, the Queen Mary 2, the world’s largest ocean liner. After a refurbishment, the QE2 now operates regional cruises from the UK.  However, she will continue to operate her annual Round the World Cruise.

The 150,000-ton QM 2 is the first transatlantic liner to be built in more than 30 years, and will operate regular transatlantic crossings in addition to regional cruises in Europe and the Caribbean. A third ship—the 90,000-ton Queen Victoria—is currently on the drafting board and is expected to debut in 2007.


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