Top Cruise Lines Honoured: Two Titanic Ports Scoop Awards

Top Cruise Lines Honoured: Two Titanic Ports Scoop Awards PR Newswire LONDON, Dec. 4, 2012 -- Cruise Critic Announces 2012 Editors' Picks Awards LONDON, Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The influential cruise news and reviews website, Cruise Critic® (www.cruisecritic.co.uk) has announced its U.K. Editors' Picks Awards for 2012. The awards, which celebrate excellence in cruise travel, have been selected by an international panel of cruise journalists in 18 different categories recognising the very best cruise lines, ships and ports. Celebrity Reflection, Celebrity Cruises' newest ship which debuted in October, is honoured as Best New Ship. The vessel will offer Caribbean sailings out of Miami during the winter months, before returning to Europe next summer. The line also took the gourmet's award as Best for Dining. P&O Cruises takes the title of Best for First-Timers for its wide-ranging appeal and efforts to attract new cruisers, and the line's The Glasshouse bar, which in 2013 will be expanded from Azura to include Ventura, is honoured for the second consecutive year. Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines took the awards for Best Value for Money and Best Itineraries, and Thomson Cruises is noted as a top family line and named the Best for Cruising with Kids. "The Editors' Picks Awards highlight the cruise lines which represent the best of the best," explained Adam Coulter, U.K. editor of Cruise Critic.