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Crystal Cruises Announces 2006 Itineraries With a Record Number of
Worldwide Destinations

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3
Renowned for its service excellence and stimulating onboard programs,
Crystal Cruises is placing even more emphasis on destinations in 2006.
Crystal's award-winning luxury fleet -- Crystal Harmony, Crystal
Symphony and Crystal Serenity -- will visit a record 214 ports in 82
countries, representing more than 20% more ports and almost 50% more
countries than the line visited in 2004. More overnight stays in port
have been scheduled than for any previous year. In all, a choice of 97
cruises are available ranging from a new three-day sampler to new
seven-day itineraries on each of the ships to rich 10-, 11- and 12-day
cruises, as well as the ultimate voyage: a 106-day World Cruise.

Also new for 2006 are new itineraries in almost every destination that
Crystal regularly visits, including Alaska, Canada/New England, South
America and the Baltic; Crystal Serenity will make her first-ever
Baltic cruises, including a new cruise to the Arctic Circle; and an
exotic Christmas/New Year cruise for Crystal Harmony in Australia,
Tasmania and New Zealand. Seventeen maiden calls are scheduled
throughout the year, including Ayr, Scotland; Pisco, Peru; Tripoli,
Libya; and Gijon, Spain.

"Our 2006 schedule offers a variety of port-intensive itineraries to
appeal to those who want to immerse themselves in a destination, as
well as cruises with more days at sea for multi-repeaters who relish
Crystal's distinctive onboard experience," says Bill Smith, senior
vice president, sales & marketing. "Like the Crystal Cruises' product,
our 2006 cruise collection is about choices."

Crystal Harmony

Crystal Harmony will kick off the year with a couple of Panama Canal
cruises followed by a winter dedicated to South America's summer,
including a new cruise to the Amazon. In the spring, the 940-guest,
50,000-ton luxury ship will offer a single Caribbean, Panama Canal and
two Mexican Riviera cruises and then will head north on a three-day
sampler cruise from Los Angeles to Vancouver to reposition for her
summer Alaska series. In addition to the line's successful 12-day
cruises round-trip from San Francisco, Crystal Harmony's Alaska season
will feature seven-day and new 10-day cruises round-trip from
Vancouver, with new calls in Whittier and stunning glacier cruising in
College Fjord, Columbia Glacier and Prince William Sound. In the fall,
Crystal Harmony innovates a series of South Pacific and Australia/New
Zealand cruises and concludes the year with a new 14-day holiday
itinerary Down Under.

Crystal Symphony

Crystal Symphony begins the year with a series of Panama Canal cruises
followed by exotic cruises to the South Pacific, China and Japan,
Southeast Asia, India and Egypt. She returns to the Mediterranean in
the spring and, instead of her previous patterns of heading north to
the Baltic, Crystal Symphony will remain in the Mediterranean through
the summer with seven- and 12-day itineraries, all of which feature
one to three overnight stays -- more than ever previously offered.
Fall foliage cruises in New England and Eastern Canada include more
departures round-trip from New York and new overnight stays in
Montreal. Crystal Symphony's Christmas/New Year cruise will be 14 days
round-trip from Los Angeles to the Mexican Riviera.

Crystal Serenity

Following a couple of seven-day Mexican Rivera cruises in January,
Crystal Serenity will make her third World Cruise on a an innovative
itinerary featuring overnight calls in Gauyaquil, Ecuador; Callao (for
Lima), Peru; Sydney, Australia; Cape Town, South Africa; Victoria,
Seychelles; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Safaga (for Luxor), Egypt and
Bordeaux, France, as well as several maiden calls. Crystal Serenity
will spend the spring through summer cruising the Baltic, North Cape,
Western and Northern Europe before heading south for fall
Mediterranean cruising. A Canary Islands cruise and Trans-Atlantic
reposition Crystal Serenity to the Caribbean in late November, where
she makes warm weather cruises through December. Crystal Serenity
spends Christmas and New Year on a new tropical 14-day pattern through
the Caribbean.

For 2006, Crystal is offering a combination of exotic and
close-to-home cruises of varying lengths. Of the 97 cruises, 50% sail
either round-trip from a domestic port or embark or disembark from a
domestic port:

29 sail round-trip from domestic ports,
20 cruises begin or end in a domestic port.


Crystal's three sister ships -- the 940-guest, 50,000-ton Crystal
Harmony and Crystal Symphony and the 1,080-guest, 68,000-ton Crystal
Serenity -- are among the most spacious and luxurious vessels cruising
the world.

Crystal Cruises is the recipient of an unprecedented nine consecutive
best large-ship cruise line awards from the readers of Conde Nast
Traveler and Travel + Leisure magazines.

For additional information, please contact a travel agent.