I lately completed a 12-Night Grand Mediterranean cruise aboard the Norwegian Spirit and was appalled at the costs of the shore excursions through the ship. It’s a well-known rule of cruising that the cruise line will try to scare you into booking via them, citing reliability and the hazard of missing the ship departure time.

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Construction of the latest addition to the fleet will get underway next yr at Meyer Werft’s Papenburg shipyard in Germany. Cruises on our new ship go on sale autumn 2018 and the ship will enter service in the UK in 2020. At a hundred and eighty,000 tons, it will have a capacity for 5,200 visitors, making it the biggest cruise ship ever built for the British market.

The news stoked hopes that the No. 2 cruise ship operator and rival Carnival (CCL.N) (CCL.L), …