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Gay Travel: Gay-friendly cruise ship Celebrity Eclipse is shipping stranded holidaymakers back to the UK.
By: Nigel Robinson
Celebrity Ecllipse is a gay-friendly cruise ship
Celebrity Ecllipse is a gay-friendly cruise ship
Gay-friendly cruise ship sails to the rescue.
Gay-friendly cruise ship Celebrity Eclipse is shipping stranded holidaymakers back to the UK.
The new cruise ship has cancelled its initial launch celebrations, scheduled for 22 April to ferry people home who have been stranded abroad due to the ash clouds from the eruption of the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano in Iceland.
Celebrity Eclipse is now on course to Bilbao in Spain where she will pick up stranded holidaymakers and return them to Southampton. Over 2,000 people are expected to join the ship in Bilbao.
Richard D. Fain, chairman of Celebrity Cruises, said:
“The events affecting air travel are completely unprecedented, and it is in times like these that the global travel industry needs to pull together.
“Collecting stranded British and Irish holidaymakers is a fitting first mission for new ship Celebrity Eclipse – what better way for a ship dedicated to the UK to mark her arrival?”
“We hope that guests initially invited to join the launch celebrations on 22 April will understand the change of plan, and we look forward to welcoming as many of them as possible to the naming ceremony on 24 April instead.”
For more information visit the Celebrity Cruises website
Visit the Pride Life website next week for an exclusive review of Celebrity Eclipse's maiden cruise.
