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Carnival Breeze offers alternative transportation to guests during an Italian worker strike, and Variety Cruises' Variety Voyager is inducted into the Preferred Hotels & Resorts Preferred Boutique Collection.

MSC Cruises offers discounted voyages to Europe this fall and the Great American Steamboat Company offers two new historical voyages aboard the American Queen.

Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas will begin sailing to Asia in June of 2013 and CruiseOne and Cruise Inc. reveal newly updated websites.

Also, American Cruise Lines unveils its new Culinary Cruise Collection and Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas completes a $48-million revitalization.

The Celebrity Millennium is the final ship to complete revitalization efforts for Celebrity Cruises, Carnival Cruise Lines' Carnival Breeze conducts sea trials, the Amber Cove Cruise Center held groundbreaking ceremonies May 14 and Seabourn adds benefits for first time guests of the Seabourn Club.

Hurtigruten launches a new travel agent booking engine, MSC Yacht Club offers agent discounts on Mediterranean sailings aboard MSC Fantasia and MSC Speldida and Carnival Cruise Line offers a Memorial Day promotion for military personnel.

Carnival offers Memorial Day sale of military personnel, the Carnival Breeze features two new culinary venues, Holland America Line debuts new vegetarian-only menu and Royal Caribbean announces winter 2013-14 Explorer of the Seas schedule.

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Princess Cruises' Princess Live! entertainment venue films live television broadcasts aboard the Royal Princess, American Cruise Lines adds new travel agent portal to its website and the Great American Steamboat Company's American Queen arrived in Memphis for its official christening ceremony.

Cruises depart several times between April 30 and Nov. 14, with fares ranging from $4,895 to $10,515.