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Stop Rio! Versatile Ship Serves as
Floating
Hotel for Rio Olympics
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Landry &
Kling’s 40-night Charter of Norwegian Getaway Brings
Additional Guest
Rooms, Hospitality Venues, Dining
and Entertainment
Options Right into the Heart of the City
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Miami,
FL – August 2016 / Newsmaker Alert / Norwegian
Getaway (145,655 GRT) sailed from Miami July 24, 2016 to Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, non-stop, on the first leg of a 40-night private charter brokered
by ship charter specialists Landry
& Kling. This “floating hotel” will sail right into the heart of
the Olympic city, providing 2,000 additional guest rooms, and convenient
hospitality venues in a prime location during the summer Olympic Games.
The
ship will be berthed at the Pier Maua in Rio from August 4 – 22, to provide
supplemental housing primarily for corporate sponsors, as well as members
of the International Olympic Federation and the National Organizing Committees.
The
“Floating Hotel Getaway” offers diverse dining options and nightly entertainment
with a Miami vibe, all under one roof. Corporate sponsors, event officials
and others staying onboard will also find it easy to attend the business
meetings and hospitality functions organized by Landry & Kling in coordination
with Norwegian Cruise Line.
The
core planning team for this massive project included key representatives
from the Rio 2016 Committee, Landry & Kling Events at Sea, and Norwegian
Cruise Line. Prior to the ship’s Miami departure, they met on board with
the master of the vessel and his senior officers for a final review of
all plans for the 40-night charter which required 2 repositioning voyages
to/from the dockside program in Rio, and many years of planning.
“Finally,
the day has come,” exclaimed an exuberant Joyce Landry, CEO, Landry &
Kling. “We’ve been involved with this massive project since 2007, when
Rio’s bid committee asked us to help obtain cruise lines’ letters of support
for the charter concept. Later, we developed a detailed RFP to source the
ship, kept the complex contract negotiations moving, and served as Rio’s
liaison with Norwegian throughout the planning process. We’re excited to
finally implement our plans aboard ship in Rio, during this historic event!”
This
40-day charter of the 4,000-passenger Norwegian Getaway is Landry &
Kling’s largest single ship charter in the company’s history of ground-breaking
dockside charters which began in Boston with a 15-day charter of Cunard’s
QE2 for DECworld ‘87 (Digital Equipment Corp). The company also masterminded
the five-ship charter project for Jacksonville Super Bowl 2005, World Cup
Cricket in the West Indies 2007, Summit of the Americas 2009 in Trinidad,
and many others. Landry & Kling holds the record for dockside cruise
ship charters for global events.
Joyce
Landry will be blogging from Norwegian Getaway during the dockside charter
in Rio. You can read her latest updates in Landry
& Kling’s blog, beginning August 4.
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About
Landry & Kling
Since
1982, Miami-based Landry & Kling Events at Sea has provided ship solutions
and custom cruise planning for ship buy-outs, incentive cruises, cruise
meetings, music festivals/theme cruises and dockside ship charters for
global events. For oceans of information, visit LandryKling.com
and ShipCharters.com or call
800-448-9002.
About
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.
Norwegian
Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. (Nasdaq: NCLH) is a leading global cruise company
which operates Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven
Seas Cruises with a combined fleet of 23 ships. The Company will introduce
five additional ships through 2020.
Contact:
Landry
& Kling Events at Sea
Joyce
Landry or Jo Kling
305-661-1880 |