Transatlantic Cruise Ship Travel to Europe
The classic Cunard Transatlantic crossings with the iconic North Atlantic itinerary Southampton to New York. The P&O cheap Caribbean fly cruises to Barbados and St Thomas, and the fly cruise deals to Alaska from the Hapag Lloyd line, with the adventure cruise trips to Iceland and Greenland across the Atlantic on the way back. The marvelous Around the World voyages by top luxury cruise lines, or the lowest prices of the cheap Relocation cruises to Europe - no matter what the destination is, and regardless of expense, the Transatlantic voyages are the classic, and some of the best European ship travel deals.
Today, the Atlantic Ocean cruise ship travel is offered as an exotic and luxurious travel option, provided by the best Transatlantic passenger liners - an epitome of safety, modern technologies, and top-notch ship designs. Prior to 19th century, the "burden" of crossing the Atlantic was carried by sailing ships, on longer and dangerous journeys, hopping from island to island, and hoping not to meet the rage of God in some of the many storms, especially during the Atlantic summer. And the steamships change the history - the Blue Riband was the new title of the fastest Transatlantic ships ever since, with the unbeaten record of the classic liner SS United States in July 1952, crossing the most famous ocean in the world for just 3 days and 11 hours.
The ocean liners became more and more popular as the most exotic travel option, and a symbol of national and corporate status to build the most luxurious, largest, and fastest one. All famous Transatlantic liners are build in UK, France, Germany, or Italy. The long list of the classic Transatlantic passenger ships, and marvels of the ship building industry, include the glorious names of the RMS Lusitania (1906-Cunard), Mauretania (1907-Cunard), Olympic (1910-White Star Line), the notorious Titanic (1912-White Star Line, sank on its maiden voyage on 15 April), the SS Rex (1932-Italia Line), United States (1952-United States Lines), Normandie (1935-Compagnie Generale Transatlantique), Andrea Doria (1953-Italian Line), and France (1962-Compagnie Generale Transatlantique), and of course the iconic Cunard's RMS Queen Mary (1936), Queen Elizabeth 2 (1969), and currently the only operational Transatlantic ocean liner - Queen Mary 2 (2004), with its fastest and regular 7 and 9 days sailings Southampton NYC.
The passenger cruise ship travel today offers many sailings across the Atlantic Ocean. Operating their seasonal relocation sailings between the Americas and Europe's Baltic and Mediterranean regions, numerous cruise vessels cross the great Atlantic Ocean each year. The Transatlantic flights made the glory of the ocean liners to wane, since larger and larger planes began to serve the classic destination USA-Europe in the new business times. And the speed prevail over the style. Since the 70's, crossing the Atlantic for merely 4 hours became the death sentence for the whole era of the Atlantic liners, to leave place for only one of them - the new old fashioned Queen Mary 2 of Cunard.
The list of the "fun cruise lines" with cheap fares, offering the cheapest cheap Transatlantic relocation cruises deals, includes Royal Caribbean, Carnival, Disney, NCL, Costa, while the elegant top luxury cruise ships of Seabourn, SeaDream, SilverSea, Regent, Azamara, P&O and Princess are the Transatlantic emblem of sophistication, style, and impeccable service.
Links for segmented Transatlantic crossing cruise itinerary and prices:
- a great review article on Transatlantic crossings at Wikipedia.
- cruise from Europe to America (South America included)
- cruise to USA from Europe (Barcelona, Venice, Athens)
- cruise from USA to Europe, with its add-ons cruise from Florida to Europe, and cruise to Europe from Miami
- cruise to Canada from UK
- cruise Europe to New York (Southampton departures)
- List of Transatlantic Cruise Ships Lines
- Transatlantic Cargo Ship Travel to Europe.