
July 24th July 2022: Laid up in Treiste pending refurbishment with larger cabins, reducing overall capacity.Īdvertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. Crystal Serenity and Symphony were sold at auction in the Bahamas for $109 million and $25 million respectively last week to an undisclosed buyer after Crystal Cruises’ owner Genting Hong Kong filed to be wound up in January. arrest warrant couldn’t be executed.įebruary 5th 2022: Arrested while at anchor off the coast of Freeport (Bahamas).įebruary 11th 2022: Crystal Cruises were officially dissolved.Ī&K Travel Group, the company owned by Geoffrey Kent and Heritage Group, today confirmed the acquisition of two Crystal Cruises ocean-going ships.Ĭrystal Serenity and Crystal Symphony will resume service in 2023 after an extensive refit and operate under the Crystal – Exceptional at Sea brand. Rather than Miami, the vessel was scheduled to dock in Bimini in the Bahamas where a U.S. Ltd, amounting to $4.6 million since 2017. An “Arrest Warrant” had been issued against the vessel for alleged non-payment of bunkering charges for three of Genting’s ships, by to Petoleum Far East Pte. January 22nd 2022: Announcement made that Genting Hong Kong Ltd., (parent company of Crystal Cruises) had run into financial difficulties. January 8th 2022: Left Miami for a scheduled 14-day Caribbean cruise.
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She also had minor upgrades to its public areas and cabins, with new carpeting, replacement of furniture and overall repairs.Īugust 2020: Crystal Cruises cancelled all remaining ocean voyages aboard the CRYSTAL SYMPHONY, CRYSTAL SERENITY and CRYSTAL ESPRIT through the end of 2020.Īugust 23 rd 2021: Return to service, she departed for Bermuda from Boston, the first in a series of four seven-night cruises sailing roundtrip out of Boston. March 19th 2020: Having been affected by the Covid Pandemic she remained in Singapore, where she would stay until a previous scheduled drydock in April.Īpril 1oth 2020 – April 23rd 2020: Dry-docked in Singapore where she would undergo regular technical maintenance, with mandatory class work on the schedule. © Nigel Thornton © Nigel Thornton © Nigel Thornton (both)


In addition to new carpet and soft furnishing, the ship received restaurant remodelling new steam room and sauna facilities re-grouted bathrooms and newly painted verandas the sanding and varnishing of all dance floors and stages installation of new teak decking and refinishing of all marble surfaces.” Lauderdale, Fla., and began in late November, 2001. The refit was overseen by ship architect Robert Tillberg and his Tillberg Design U.S. January 2nd 2002: “Re-emerged from 10-day dry-dock refurbishment at Lisnave Drydock in Lisbon, Portugal.

© Nigel Thornton © Nigel Thornton © Nigel Thornton © Nigel Thornton (all) Typical among other long-distance cruises made by this vessel are Singapore to Sydney via Bali, Fremantle, Perth and Adelaide, and San Francisco to Sydney via Hawaii, Western Samoa, Fiji and Noumea. May 4th 1995: Entered service in the United States cruise market with her first cruise from New York to San Francisco. May 3rd 1995: Officially named in New York. The CRYSTAL SYMPHONY was ordered as a follow-on consort to the similar-sized CRYSTAL HARMONY, capitalising on the success of the earlier vessel.Īpril 18th 1995: Delivered to Crystal Cruises, Los Angeles, United States, a wholly owned division of Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), Japan. All the AIS ship position data featured within this article is provided by VesselFinder and we are therefore neither responsible for its content or its accuracy. The AIS transponder/ship position data featured on this page is intended for information purposes only and it is in no way related to the 'Safety of Navigation at Sea'. Please note that this specific vessels AIS position data may be over an hour old and that the vessels position will only be displayed when it is within range of the VesselFinder AIS system.
