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Princess Cruises Celebrates its New Home Port in NYC with the
"Brooklyn Balcony Nosh"
Famed Brooklyn Treats Featured on Room Service Menu for All Sailings
Out of NYC
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (June 7, 2006) - As a complement to its popular
"Ultimate Balcony Breakfast" and "Ultimate Balcony Dinner," Princess
Cruises is introducing a new room service meal that many New Yorkers
will call the "ultimate balcony lunch." The new Brooklyn Balcony Nosh
features an authentic Nathan's Hot Dog with all the trimmings, an ice
cold bottle of Brooklyn Brewery's Premium Lager Beer, and a generous
slice of Junior's Cheesecake, a Brooklyn institution since 1950.
Priced at $7, the Brooklyn Balcony Nosh will be available beginning
with the new Crown Princess when she debuts on June 14 out of New
York.
"We wanted to pay tribute to our new home port of Brooklyn in a way
that would make New Yorkers feel right at home on board our ships,"
says Jan Swartz, Princess' senior vice president of customer service
and sales. "Since we couldn't recreate the famed Coney Island Cyclone
on board, the Brooklyn Balcony Nosh seemed like the next best thing!"
The snack derives its name from the fact that Princess Cruises offers
more balcony staterooms than any other cruise line, with more than 50
percent of the fleet's total outside cabins featuring these private
but affordable luxuries (more than 8,000 cabins). In fact, when Crown
Princess sets sail out of Brooklyn on June 14, she'll feature nearly
900 private balcony cabins, the most balconies on any ship except
Queen Mary 2.
Nathan's began as a nickel hot dog stand in Coney Island in 1916 and
grew to become a much-loved New York institution, now available
throughout the United States and overseas. The Brooklyn Brewery was
founded in 1987 by entrepreneurs Steve Hindy and Tom Potter. It
produces lagers and ales in a variety of styles, including a brown
ale, a stout, an India pale ale and an unfiltered wheat beer. Junior's
was founded by Harry Rosen in 1950, and quickly became a landmark
restaurant known as the home of New York's best cheesecake. For
decades Brooklynites (and other New Yorkers) have propelled Junior's
to become a "must have" treat for visitors to New York, and loyal
followers include Supreme Court justices, Hall of Fame athletes,
celebrities, authors, politicians, and other pop culture influencers
around the nation and the globe.
The inaugural 2006 summer season for Crown Princess will feature
nine-day roundtrip voyages to both the Eastern and Western Caribbean,
and will mark the return of Princess visits to Bermuda, as well as the
line's first-ever regular calls to Grand Turk. In the fall the ship
will reposition to San Juan for winter Caribbean sailings.
Additional information about Crown Princess is available through a
professional travel agent.
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