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easyCruiseOne will be cruising the Caribbean - Barbados, St Vincent, Martinique, The Grenadines, Grenada and St Lucia. With prices starting from just £9 per person, per night, this could be your chance to get away from it all this winter!
There are two main reasons why easyCruise has succeeded in attracting a young crowd. First, easyCruiseOne stays in port every night so passengers are free to go ashore to party the night away. By contrast the rest of the cruise industry generally sets sail in the early evening so that passengers are obliged to be back on board every day before dinner time. Secondly, passengers can join an easyCruise where and when they want, subject to a two night minimum, fourteen night maximum stay.
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Miami, Florida, – Launched at Seatrade 2005, easyCruise reports today a successful first year of offering a flexible cruise product to young, independent-minded travelers. Created by Stelios, the serial entrepreneur, who founded easyJet and all 15 easyGroup businesses, easyCruise provides exceptional itineraries to the Caribbean and French and Italian Rivieras allowing travelers to embark and depart at any port along the route, provided they stay onboard for at least two nights. Unlike a traditional cruise, the easyCruise ship stays in port every night which allows passengers the choice of whether to party the night away on shore or to stay on board and enjoy the facilities. As a result, easyCruise attracts young vacationers, whose average age is in their 30’s, who would not generally have considered cruising.
Encouraged by the very positive response from US passengers and media to easyCruise, the company is now researching the possibilities of offering easyCruise to US passengers out of Miami or Fort Lauderdale to the Bahamas. Stelios recently visited South Florida and the Bahamas to meet relevant authorities and operators to discuss the viability of introducing easyCruise to the region for winter 06/07. There is currently a contest to see whether easyCruise will return to the Caribbean for winter 06/07 or begin cruising in South Florida and the Bahamas.
"Americans seem to like easyCruise because of the youthful independence it brings to the industry," said Stelios. "I think this gives us the opportunity to enter the lion's den and start offering cruises out of Miami and the Bahamas, the cruising center of the world," he concluded.
easyCruiseOne passengers in the Caribbean have an average age of 38 and in the Mediterranean the average is 32 – about 20 years younger than the current published industry average. Of the 90 nationalities who have tried easyCruise, US nationals are the largest group in the Caribbean and the second largest (after UK nationals) in the Mediterranean. easyCruise has reported heavy bookings and high demand through the first quarter of 2006, and having achieved success with a younger market segment and two unique itineraries, easyCruise is now eagerly gearing up for growth as it begins its second year.