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Rotterdam Dates
On June 19th she will sail on a two-night inaugural for European continent travel partners and media. On June 21st, she sails for Southampton on a one night crossing.
Southampton Dates
On June 22, she will sail on a two-night inaugural jolly for UK travel partners and media. On June 24th, she sails for New York on a seven day crossing.
New York Dates
Norwegian Epic arrives in New York on July 1 and will be named on July 2. On the evening of July 6, she will sail on a three-night inaugural for US and Canada travelpartners and media. She the heads for to Miami without passengers on July 6.
Miami Dates
On July 8, Norwegian Epic will sail on a two-nightinaugural for US travel partners and media. She entersrevenue service on July 10 with her first alternatingEastern and Western Caribbean cruises.
Very nice looking forward to see here, in Rotterdam. Greetings Ben.
quote:Originally posted by DEIx15x8:There are a lot of sailings name inaugural but I'm assuming that only the July 10th sailing is the inaugural. All the previous ones are free pre-insugural sailings to show her off to partners.
The June 24th crossing is a full revenue sailing--I'm booked on it, and I work in the industry, and believe me, it's far from free!
In fact, people who were originally booked on her first cruise from Miami in July were given first chance to book the crossing, since that's the new first revenue sailing.
Rich
[ 10-16-2009: Message edited by: Linerrich ]
quote:Originally posted by Linerrich:The June 24th crossing is a full revenue sailing--I'm booked on it, and I work in the industry, and believe me, it's far from free! In fact, people who were originally booked on her first cruise from Miami in July were given first chance to book the crossing, since that's the new first revenue sailing. Rich[ 10-16-2009: Message edited by: Linerrich ]
Yes the 24 sailing is supposed to be here maiden voyage. The other sailings are more or less media presentations.
Greetings Ben.
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