Norwegian Cruise Line

Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Spirit just completed a $100 million drydock, as part of the Northwegian Edge fleetwide upgrade program.

The Norwegian Spirit finishes a 43-day dry dock that added  14 new venues, additional and updated staterooms, enhanced public areas and new hull art.

Changes include:

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.

Norwegian Cruise Line has updated its website to indicate the convenience charge for room service orders has increased to $9.95 per order.

The previous convenience charge was at $7.95.

Norwegian Cruise Line announced "Silver Cove", which is a new exclusive oceanfront rest-style destination at Great Stirrup Cay private island.

Great Stirrup Cay is undergoing a number of enhancements across the 270-acre island in The Bahamas. During Norwegian Encore’s inaugural call to Great Stirrup Cay, guests discovered the new oceanfront lagoon area including private beach access, 38 beachfront villas, a Mandara Spa as well as a new Moet Bar and the Silver Cove Restaurant and Bar.

Norwegian Cruise line announced a 40-day dry dock for the Norwegian Spirit cruise ship.

The long dry-dock will add new hull artwork, as well as 14 new venues. At a cost of over $100 million, the ship will begin the upgrade at the dry dock facility in Marseille, France on January 2, 2020. 

Here is a list of what they are adding/changing:

Singer Kelly Clarkson sent an email to her mailing list to ask her fans if they would want to go on a cruise with her.

An email sent to Kelly's mailing list subscribers contains a message from the singer in which she says, "Hey everybody! In case y'all didn’t know, I recently became the Godmother to Norwegian Cruise Line's newest ship, Encore, and I'm super-excited about it!"

Some passengers on the Norwegian Spirit are actively protesting the cruise line and demanding refunds after itinerary changes were made due to refunds.

A large number of guests aboard 14-night sailing gathered in the atrium to protest the itinerary changes due to poor weather conditions.

The Norwegian Sun has will call Port Canaveral home for another year, offering cruises to Cuba.

Beginning on April 15, Norwegian Sun will offer four-, five- and seven-day cruises to Havana, Cuba, with select sailings also calling to Key West during its four-day cruises.

Ports of call during the Sun’s five- and seven-day voyages include Key West, Nassau, Bahamas, or Norwegian’s private island beach at Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas.

In April 2022, Norwegian Cruise Line raised their daily gratuity rates for the third time since 2019. 

The gratuity rates are: