Cruise Lines for young?
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Uday Patel
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Published on 09/7/2008
An article on shifting focus on some cruise lines to attract teenagers for fun on board...
Teen Cruises
Cruise ships that are large and yet take on less passengers or party goers offer more space to holiday makers on board. Simple put it never feels stuffy on board. But a new party goers is hopping on board for fun and frolic - the teenager.
Earlier luxury cruise ships were favored by old timers and retirees who could afford to take a holiday or dinner cruise on board at sea. But lot more younger crowd is flocking these luxury ships for banquet parties and dance sessions as well as travel cruise to exotic destinations.
The younger lot usually has less time and hence often prefer short cruise lines. There is more emphasis on active sports, music and entertainment activities. Even the shore excursions are more action oriented now a days with beach parties, special beach dinners by expert chef's, champagne, caviar, beach sports, scuba diving and deep sea diving taking the cake.
Recently many cruise lines in New York have added features to attract younger crowd as well for party, valentine cruise and dinner cruise. The features most suited to teens are broad band Net access, movie screens, special teen lounge, dance floor and DJ etc. The rooms are often designed to look like private home hang outs with hard wood floors, brown sofas, fire place, overhead screens for x boxes or TV and videos. Board games and karaoke are popular on board features as well.
Other attractive features are sports and games, play stations even classes for teaching young teens dance moves in specially lit dance floors. An American cruise lines has offers special clubs for teenagers with high-tech plasma video screens, dance floor with fog machine and video game pods.
This newly targeted segment by cruise lines have ended up revitalizing cruise ships and have brought new appealing enhancements as well. What with new fancy restaurants, soft drink bars and pizzerias on board the fun ships.
Thus teen cruise especially in the US has brought in lot of enhancement on cruise ships and in place opened a new vista for cruise companies to get business from young holiday makers.
Earlier luxury cruise ships were favored by old timers and retirees who could afford to take a holiday or dinner cruise on board at sea. But lot more younger crowd is flocking these luxury ships for banquet parties and dance sessions as well as travel cruise to exotic destinations.
The younger lot usually has less time and hence often prefer short cruise lines. There is more emphasis on active sports, music and entertainment activities. Even the shore excursions are more action oriented now a days with beach parties, special beach dinners by expert chef's, champagne, caviar, beach sports, scuba diving and deep sea diving taking the cake.
Recently many cruise lines in New York have added features to attract younger crowd as well for party, valentine cruise and dinner cruise. The features most suited to teens are broad band Net access, movie screens, special teen lounge, dance floor and DJ etc. The rooms are often designed to look like private home hang outs with hard wood floors, brown sofas, fire place, overhead screens for x boxes or TV and videos. Board games and karaoke are popular on board features as well.
Other attractive features are sports and games, play stations even classes for teaching young teens dance moves in specially lit dance floors. An American cruise lines has offers special clubs for teenagers with high-tech plasma video screens, dance floor with fog machine and video game pods.
This newly targeted segment by cruise lines have ended up revitalizing cruise ships and have brought new appealing enhancements as well. What with new fancy restaurants, soft drink bars and pizzerias on board the fun ships.
Thus teen cruise especially in the US has brought in lot of enhancement on cruise ships and in place opened a new vista for cruise companies to get business from young holiday makers.