Holland America offers VIP King Tutankhamen tickets in Ft. Lauderdale

Guests arriving in Ft. Lauderdale on or before April 23, 2006, aboard a Holland America vessel, can purchase VIP tickets to the King Tutankhamen exhibit at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale. These $75 tickets permit front-of-line privileges plus an audio tour narrated by famed Egyptian actor Omar Sharif.

Holland America provides these tickets as the "official cruise line" of the King Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibit. Fort Lauderdale is the only southeast location in the U.S. to host the King Tutankhamen exhibit, creating a rare opportunity to combine it with a cruise.

This exhibit marks King Tut's first visit to the U.S. in 26 years, and includes never-before-displayed artifacts from Egypt's Valley of the Kings.

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First cruise ship calls in New Orleans since Katrina

As is the rest of the city, New Orleans' cruise business is sailing back. The first ship has called at the port since devastating hurricane Katrina, the German vessel Delphin Renaissance. Later in 2006, the cruise lines more familiar to U.S. travelers will also return.

Carnival will bring back its Carnival Conquest, currently operating from Galveston, at a to-be-determined date, and its Sensation in October 2006. Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas will be back in December 2006, and the Norwegian Sun returns in November 2006.

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