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I must have missed news of the changes to Thomson Cruises, Dark Nights favourite,we should now refer the old Thomson cruise line as Marella Cruises , from Celtic meaning ‘shining sea’. The fleet will drop the Thomson prefix to the name, and all ships will be Marella Celebration etc, etc.
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Interestingly Marella Discovery 2 (aka RCI Leged of the Seas) has been following us around the Canaries for the last few days

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Will there be a Marella Cherry and a Marella Fostrup ?!

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Weird name!

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A weird name maybe but it seems that they are going to base a number of ships in Asia ... a good plan imo.
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Are there a lot of Celtic speakers in Asia then ?

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Will you be able to get an Eavesway coach to board them?

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They're nearly all Ellisons now

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I have no idea why they did not just switch to TUI, the Thomson holidays now have that name and there is currently some heavy advertising to lift its profile, which the cruise line could have benefited from. Although the German cruise line is also named Tui, since all its ships are named Mein Schiff there does not seem to be much conflict there.
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I think it's because a lot of Thomson customers could get confused between the names Tui Celebration and Mein Schiff III
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towny44 wrote: 08 Nov 2017, 09:52
I have no idea why they did not just switch to TUI, the Thomson holidays now have that name and there is currently some heavy advertising to lift its profile, which the cruise line could have benefited from. Although the German cruise line is also named Tui, since all its ships are named Mein Schiff there does not seem to be much conflict there.
They do have the Tui logo on the funnel and are painted in the Tui colours

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david63 wrote: 08 Nov 2017, 10:32
towny44 wrote: 08 Nov 2017, 09:52
I have no idea why they did not just switch to TUI, the Thomson holidays now have that name and there is currently some heavy advertising to lift its profile, which the cruise line could have benefited from. Although the German cruise line is also named Tui, since all its ships are named Mein Schiff there does not seem to be much conflict there.
They do have the Tui logo on the funnel and are painted in the Tui colours
But then Domino's Pizza and Pepsi share the same colours so it could be Domino Dream or Pepsi Majesty ?!

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