The crew on the Diamond Princess that is taking care of a quarantined ship dealing with a coronavirus outbreak will receive two months paid vacation for their troubles.

Princess Cruises confirmed the paid two months of vacation for the crew.

Cruise line spokesman Roger Frizzell commented on the decision:

Days after banning any Chinese passport holders out of concern for the spread of Coronavirus, Royal Caribbean decided to reverse the policy.

On Monday, Royal Caribbean announced it has decided to undo the ban, which was originally put into place to prevent passengers infected with the coronavirus from boarding their ships.

Norwegian Cruise Line announced it has cancelled all of its Norwegian Spirit sailings in Asia through December 7, 2020 due to coronavirus concerns.

The Norwegian Spirit was scheduled to offering cruises from Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo in 2020, as part of her Asian cruise season.

In addition to airfare change fees, the cruise line is offering a full refund of cruise fares paid, along with a future cruise credit worth 10 percent as compensation for new cruises booked in the next 45 days.

NCL has not announced where the ship will sail from instead.

Princess Cruises announced a new partnership with SES to provide the cruise line early access to O3b mPOWER network augmenting the Princess MedallionClass experience as it scales across the fleet. 

The new satellite network promises to deliver "unmatched and ubiquitous global Wi-Fi service levels", as well as "seamless land/sea digital experience enablement".

Royal Caribbean opened its additional cost exclusive area of Perfect Day at CocoCay, known as the Coco Beach Club.

The exclusive beach club touts the first floating cabanas in The Bahamas, an oceanfront infinity pool, beach cabanas, a dedicated restaurant with upscale dining and an exclusive bar.

Royal Caribbean has shared its new worldwide coronavirus screening procedures, meant to keep its guests safe while on a cruise.

The procedures add two-step checklist to prevent someone possibly infected with the coronavirus from boarding a ship.

Southwest Airlines is giving away a 7-night Disney Cruise Line sailing that includes round-trip airfare to Orlando and transportation to the port, but you have to act fast.

If you can enter before the end of January 31, 2020, you may qualify for a chance to win a seven-night Disney Cruise Line vacation for four to the Caribbean on the Disney Fantasy, plus round trip air travel from Southwest.

This contest is also exclusive of legal residents of the United States (excluding Alaska) and the District of Columbia aged 19 years and older with a valid email address.

Regent Seven Seas took deliver of the Seven Seas Splendor ship at the Fincantieri shipyard.

This is the second ship in the class, following up the Seven Seas Explorer ship.  A third vessel is due for delivery in 2023.

Seven Seas Splendor weighs 55,000 gross tons, has a length of 224 meters and can accommodate 750 passengers in 375 large suites. The ship is an all-suite vessel.

All the passengers aboard the Costa Smeralda are being held in lockdown in Italy due to fears someone onboard might have the coronavirus.

Two Chinese passengers aboard the Costa Cruises ship are being tested by medical staff, who boarded the ship in the port of Civitavecchia.

The two guests have been quarantined in separate rooms, with their blood work being sent to a hospital in Rome.

The cruise ship, carrying around 7,000 guests and crew, is in lockdown.