Thomson Red Sea

MS Thomson Celebration – Thomson Cruises

(Warning: a tremendously lengthy analysis – rates by Dec 2006)

Thomson Holidays, a division of TUI British Ltd, would be the biggest tourism and services group on the planet. Thomson vacations will be the marketplace frontrunner in the UK comprehensive getaway marketplace, a situation this has held since 1974. The company has actually about one third of this UNITED KINGDOM marketplace and runs many hotels offering a big number of vacation. Thomson owns the UK’s leading chain of travel agents, and a direct call centre. Additionally They run their own flight ‘Thomsonfly’.

Preceding: Crowd free embarcation at Sharm el Sheikh at sunset.
Thomson is the UK’s biggest provider of ‘budget cruises’. In 2007 they operated a five ship fleet; Thomson Spirit, Celebration, Destiny, Emerald and Calypso. ‘Thomson Spirit’ and ‘Thomson Celebration’ would be the ex Holland The united states line Ships Nieuw Amsterdam 1983, and Noordam 1984, respectively. These are generally around 34, 000 gross tons and carry more or less 1250 passengers. ‘Thomson Destiny’ is Royal Caribbean’s ex ‘Song of America’ 1982, previously Airtours extremely popular ‘Sunbird’. She weighs about around 37, 500 gt and carries 1432 guests. The Emerald is the oldest 1958, at roughly 26, 400 gt and carries 1, 198 people. Calypso 1968, is the littlest ship into the fleet at 11, 000 gt, and carries 486 passengers.

For the ship enthusiasts on the market, Thomson Celebration had been built by Chantiers de l’Atlantique at St. Nazaire France, the garden that built the Queen Mary 2. Extraordinary to the woman design and that of her sister, had been the sum total absence of curved lines; every line externally of ship is angular.

When I revealed the truth that I gonna book a Thomson cruise (‘Red water Magic’) to some seasoned cruising pals, I became informed not to ever touch ‘Thompson’ with a barge-pole. Interestingly we were holding everyone having never actually cruises with Thomson. There clearly was undoubtedly some ‘cruise snobbery’. Some people think that the boats must certanly be rusty old tubs, the foodstuff and solution must be bad and many of passengers are drunken people in the underclass. Really i will now report this is could not be further from truth.

In the event that you head into a Thomson Travel department and say ‘Cruise’, and many Brits do, you are going to be passed a duplicate of ‘Thomson Cruise’ pamphlet before that some other cruise line. The pamphlet is very family friendly, with good kid discounts. There are numerous ‘cruise and stay’ options to bolt on to the many cruise itineraries. Thomson prefers direct telephone scheduling. In addition their webpage provides additional discounts for online bookings.