Celebrity sells out
Celebrity Cruises set sail for the first time from the Port of Galveston, Texas, with a sold-out cruise.
The 1,870-guest Galaxy departs round-trip from Galveston on 11- and 12-night Panama Canal cruises through April 2005, with visits to Cozumel, Mexico; Belize City, Belize; the historic Panama Canal; Cristobal Pier, the port serving Colon and Panama City; Puerto Limon, Costa Rica; Georgetown, Grand Cayman, and Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Fares begin at $1,100 per person, based on double occupancy.
Celebrity concludes its first season of sailing from Galveston with a new, 16-night transatlantic cruise departing May 7, with ports of call in Key West, Florida; Nassau, Bahamas; Ponta Delgada, Azores; Funchal, Madeira; Gibraltar, U.K.; Villefranche (for Nice and Monte Carlo), France, ending in Rome, Italy, where Galaxy begins her 2005 season in Europe.
Celebrity calls itself the industry’s highest-rated premium cruise brand.
The cruise line has 10 ships in its fleet, which sails in Alaska, Bermuda, California, the Caribbean, Europe, Hawaii, the Mexican Riviera, the Panama Canal and South America.
In addition, Celebrity Xpeditions takes passengers to the Galapagos Islands, the Arctic, and Antarctica.
Report by David Wilkening
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