Pullmantur Cruises added a new webpage on their website, MS "Moon Empress"

http://www.pullmanturcruises.com/moonempress.html

According to the photos, "Moon Empress" would be obviously the new name of the "Pacific", the former Love Boat "Pacific Princess"... But the ' "Empress Of The Seas" also must be transferred in this fleet in 2008...

Would not it be rather the new name of her ? "From "Empress Of The Seas" to "Moon Empress"...

ZENITH - Rondo Veneciano - Venecia, Venecia, Dubrovnik, navegación, Santorini, Rodas, Mikonos, Atenas. Y viceversa Desde el 17 de Marzo hasta 27 de Octubre

OCEAN DREAM (ex-Pacific Star) - Joyas del Mediterraneo - Barcelona, navegación, Tunez, Malta, Sicilia, Roma, Villefranche, Barcelona.
Desde el 11 de Mayo hasta el 26 de Octubre

SKY WONDER - Islas Griegas y Turquía - Atenas, Atenas, Heraklion, Rodas, Kusadasi, Patmos, Estambul, Estambul. Y viceversa.
Desde el 16 de Marzo hasta el 2 de Noviembre

OCEANIC - Brisas del Mediterraneo - Barcelona, Villefranche, Livorno, Roma, Nápoles, Túnez, navegación, Barcelona.
Desde el 3 de Marzo hasta el 29 de Diciembre

MOON EMPRESS (ex-Empress of the Seas)
Desde el 15 de Marzo hasta el 5 de Mayo
- Antillas y Granadinas - Aruba, Curaçao, Isla Margarita, Grenada, Barbados, St. Vicent, navegación, Aruba. Posibilidad tambien de
embarcar en Isla Margarita.

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Originally posted by Robertdam:
On the French site Crocierenet.com the photo of empress of the seas is used for the cruises of Moon Empress so we will have to guess i think...

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Originally posted by Carlos Fernandez:
I preffer Empress of the Seas and I can just imagine how bad the Pullmantur livery will look on her.

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[ 09-27-2007: Message edited by: Ernst ]

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Originally posted by Ernst:
The Pullmantur livery is not that bad. First I also thought that it's awful - and I do not like it on Oceanic - but when I saw Zenith in real I changed my mind. [ 09-27-2007: Message edited by: Ernst ]

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Ernst,

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Originally posted by recab:

Explain yourself, please. The NE will be handed over to Pullmanturs and can´t keep her present name!

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What I meant is that I prefer EOTS under the Royal Caribbean brand, yes, the name must change.

as i have said before the ships of Pullmantur are quiet interesting

for livery they don't really seem to put a lot of effort in, Blue Dream and Blue Star retained their Renaissance colour scheme, although it has to be said those ships were originally chartered

however Blue Moon... got a blue "livery"when she was bought she was sailing as Delphin Renaissance with a white hull!!

now then... I agree with Ernst that Zenith has not become worse then she was with Celebrity colours
and I would say the same thing for Holiday Dream and Sky Wonder, it's actually not bad at all

so i can't see Carlos why you think the RCI livery is better looking then... it's seems boring to me
is it a livery at all? just plain white with the RCI logo on the funnel?? everyone has it preferences
though, so... first let's wait what she will look like with a blue funnel....

the shipnames of Pullmantur are a bit harder to understand, it's seems to lack so much imagination, no invention or whatever and may-be
that is a plus so completeley inconsistent
some ships retain their name... Oceanic and Zenith
other's get slight alterations and i like Sky Wonder and Moon Empress (it keeps a bit of history there)
but some Holiday Dream , Blue Dream, Blue Moon
Ocean Dream. well i don't know may-be they like dreaming a lot..

what to say about Oceanic II? sometimes it really makes scratch your head, probably that's why i like Pullmantur as a cruiseline, a bit out of the ordinary

will RCCI keep up that strategy???

best regards
b. Joe

[ 09-28-2007: Message edited by: buddhaJoe ]

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Originally posted by lasuvidaboy:
Instead of the awful Blue Moon why not a Spanish name like 'Reina del Mar'. A few British and U.S. liners etc. had lovely Spanish names for passenger ships so why does'nt Pullmantur?

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According to someone in Spain, the Spanish public won't sail on a ship with a Spanish name.
English names are more interesting despite the fact that native English speaking people think they are awful.

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Originally posted by Willem:

According to someone in Spain, the Spanish public won't sail on a ship with a Spanish name.
English names are more interesting despite the fact that native English speaking people think they are awful.

Willem

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That is interesting. I recall reading that many postwar Italian immigrants preferred crossing on the Independence/Constitution over their national flag liners. Then there were the German liners of the early 20th Century that had ships w/U.S. related names.

But then again they didn't call HOLIDAY DREAM "SUPERSTAR" or (amazingly) SKY WONDER "PACIFIC II", so there.

While the names do sound silly in English (SKY WONDER is still the most ridiculous-sounding one to me, but MOON EMPRESS is close), Pullmantur's naming scheme is at least never boring, not something one can say for many other cruise lines!

As for the livery, as far as I am concerned they ruined the appearance of this ship when they painted out all the blue "racing stripes". Now that she is all white she just looks like a big slab-sided box which, in fact, is what she is.