New French Cruise Line: Compagnie Française de Croisières

[Host Jazzbeau]

New French Cruise Line:  Compagnie Française de Croisières launches with former Holland America Maasdam:

https://www.seatrade-cruise.com/news/new-french-cruise-line-cfc-revive-long-sea-voyages

 

[jimdee3636]

On 9/6/2022 at 6:48 PM, Host Jazzbeau said:

New French Cruise Line:  Compagnie Française de Croisières launches with former Holland America Maasdam:

https://www.seatrade-cruise.com/news/new-french-cruise-line-cfc-revive-long-sea-voyages

 

I'm a fan of those smaller HAL ships, and I like what the French company is planning. But you'd better be fluent in French (or close to fluent) if you want to enjoy one of their cruises. 

[RW75]

100 solo cabins with nil supplement is quite stunning. 
if only I spoke more French, I’m limited to where is the swimming pool/town hall/first class lounge.

Fortunately the French are much better in general with languages. 

[Guest]

Their "new" webite has gone live: https://www.cfc-croisieres.fr/

 

I say new in inverted commas because it is just the old CMV website with a different logo.

 

The content might be slightly different but the entire website layout and look and feel is a carbon copy of the old CMV site.

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20191115053717/http://cruiseandmaritime.com/

[Host Jazzbeau]

Announcement about the extensive upgrades planned for Renaissance (ex-Maasdam):

Compagnie Française de Croisières taps Damen Yards for Renaissance renovation

[Host Jazzbeau]

Supply chain issues and the invasion of Ukraine strike again:

CFC Delays Cruise Start-up to May

[Rudi-Cruiser]

On 9/22/2022 at 7:55 AM, RW75 said:

100 solo cabins with nil supplement is quite stunning. 
if only I spoke more French, I’m limited to where is the swimming pool/town hall/first class lounge.

Fortunately the French are much better in general with languages. 

I was thinking the same thing, why I didn't learn more French in school. I like the idea of 100 solo cabins. I would love to know more about how a bad French speaking passenger would get along.

[showingdiva]

On 3/16/2024 at 6:00 PM, Rudi-Cruiser said:

I was thinking the same thing, why I didn't learn more French in school. I like the idea of 100 solo cabins. I would love to know more about how a bad French speaking passenger would get along.

 

I am a local port guide in the UK and have worked on this ship multiple times.   Words fail me how much I love this ship.   Eccentric and slightly crazy.   Yes, she's an older ship, but CFC did a good job of her upgrade prior to her entering service for them.

 

Now, the language.    I speak French on board to the passengers.   The crew speak English and French.   All the announcements are in French.    Essentially, the bullet points here are that this is a French speaking ship with an almost exclusive French passenger base.   

 

Would you get on okay with only a token amount of the language? Yes, you would probably be fine.   Conversation at dinner on a mixed table, if you are a solo passenger, might be interesting through.