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70000 ash affected TUI travellers returned home – TravelMole

cruise ship - Google News — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:05:15 +0000

70000 ash affected TUI travellers returned home
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Around 235 repatriation flights were organised from the opening of UK airspace to bring people home together with the use of three cruise ships and fleets …

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4/26/10 – TUI Completes Bond Offering

Cruise News — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:38:00 +0000

TUI Travel plc has completed a 400 million pound convertible bond offering, paying 4.9 percent and due in 2017. According to TU, the net proceeds will allow the group to what the prospects called “its strong pipeline of attractive acquisition opportunities and diversify its debt maturity profile and broaden its sources of finance.”

The group is one of the world’s

Rescued British holidaymakers sail home in the lap of luxury

John Honeywell — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:57:13 +0000

All aboard! Celebrity Eclipse is on her way back to the UK carrying 2,200 holidaymakers who were stranded by the volcanic ash flight ban.

Many of them can’t believe their luck. Yesterday they were stuck in Spain, not knowing when they would be able to return home. Now they are travelling in five-star luxury, with free meals, on a brand new cruise ship which would normally cost more than £1,000 a week.

Most of the holidaymakers boarding the £500 million ship in the northern port of Bilbao this morning had been brought by bus from the Costas. Others had been flown into Spain from as far apart as Mexico and Egypt by tour operators Thomson, First Choice, Thomas Cook and Co-op Travel.

Martin and Jane Greenford and their two children, Sarah, 13, and Luke, 11, took a 15-hour overnight bus trip from Fuengirola, in southern Spain. Mrs Greenford, 44, a nurse, from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, said: “We have been stuck since Sunday. The bus ride was a nightmare.

“Thomas Cook said going home on a liner might be an option but we never expected anything like this. It’s like a palace.”

Honeymoon couple Felicity and David Gardner, from Staffordshire, had a nine-hour journey to reach the port. Mrs Gardner, 25, and a teacher, arrived on the ship – which has three swimming pools, 13 bars, and a half-acre lawn of real grass – and said: “This is a bit of a contrast with Benidorm.”

Richard Fain, chairman of Celebrity Cruises, said the tour operators were paying for the ship’s fuel. “The rest is on us, but I don’t even know how much it is costing.”

The passengers will be fed and entertained free of charge during the 30-hour voyage, and the ship will arrive in Southampton on Friday evening, in time for her naming celebrations to go ahead as planned on Saturday.

Another cruise ship, the appropriately-named Island Escape, is due to arrive in Falmouth tomorrow morning, carrying 1,400 Thomson and First Choice holidaymakers who had been stranded in the Canaries and Madeira.

And Thomson Dream has embarked on her maiden voyage from Palma to Livorno, Barcelona and Villefranche after ferrying 2,800 people from Majorca to the Spanish mainland when they were unable to fly.

4/19/10 – TUI Reroutes to Genoa

Cruise News — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:47:00 +0000

TUI Cruises rerouted Mein Schiff from Palma de Majorca to Genoa to allow passengers to travel back to Germany by bus. TUI offered passengers the option to stay two days onboard in Genoa at no cost and then travel by bus to Germany or they could stay on the ship and continue to Palma. 1,200 passengers accepted the opportunity to

Falmouth to receive stranded tourists – Falmouth Penryn Packet

cruise ship - Google News — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:45:32 +0000

Falmouth to receive stranded tourists
Falmouth Penryn Packet
“Thomson is pleased to announce that its Island Cruises ship, Island Escape, currently in Funchal (Madeira) will bring all customers onboard directly back …
Tui rescues 5000 clients from Spain by coach and shipTravel Weekly UK
Ash cloud: Tui cruise ships to help repatriate customersTTG live
MONDAY ASH ALERT – TUI mounts massive rescue effortTravelMole

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3/25/10 – Gourmet Cruise Aboard Mein Schiff

Cruise News — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:44:00 +0000

TUI Cruises plans to turn its July 31 to Aug. 8, 2010 sailing to Southern Norway into a gourmet cruise, featuring four-star chefs, including Henri Bach from the Hotel Residence in Essen, Franz Feckl from Ehningen Feckl, Björn Friday from the Restaurant Goldener Anker in Dorsten, and Marcus Lindner from the Mesa restaurant in Zurich.

“The selection of these very different

3/25/10 – Upbeat TUI Travel

Cruise News — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:27:00 +0000

TUI Travel has given an upbeat outlook for 2010 prior to releasing its six month results for the period ending March 31, 2010.

The Germany-based travel company said it is seeing a significant recovery in consumer demand for leisure holidays resulting in strong trading across all seasons.

“For this winter (2009/2010) all programs are now almost fully sold and we have

3/3/10 – TUI to Russia and Ukraine

Cruise News — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:16:00 +0000

TUI Russia & CIS have announced the launch of the TUI brand in Russia & Ukraine. The joint venture between TUI Travel PLC and S-Group Capital Management (SGCM) has committed to spend up to $60 million on the TUI Russia & CIS businesses – Mostravel, VKO Group and Voyage Kiev – over the next three years in the areas of

2/25/10 – TUI Cruises presents its brochure for the 2010/2011 season

Cruise News — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:29:00 +0000

A premium all inclusive offering as well as individual routes around the Canaries and in the Eastern and Western Mediterranean – these are two of the new arrangements which are on offer in the third TUI Cruises brochure. This makes TUI Cruises the first German cruise provider to offer an all inclusive concept for big ships. All the trips in

1/25/10 – Pullmantur and Tui Thomson to Call at Costa Maya

Cruise News — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:49:00 +0000

Costa Maya, one of Mexico’s largest cruise ports and emerging destinations, will welcome European cruise lines Pullmantur and Tui Thomson to its 2010 itinerary. The two cruise lines join twelve others set to call Costa Maya this year, continuing the port’s re-emergence as one of the Western Caribbean’s and Mexico’s top ports.

“The arrival of Pullmantur and Tui Thomson cruise lines