Cruise With Stelios, internationally known as
Cruiseline, is a British made observational documentary following the lives of the passengers and crew of
easyCruiseEasyCruise is an enterprise of Greek ferry operator Hellenic Seaways, sold to them in August 2009 for £9 million by founder and Cypriot/British business man, Stelios Haji-Ioannou. EasyCruise launched their first cruise ship EasyCruiseOne in 2005...
, a no-frills cruise line established in April 2004, with the maiden voyage occurring on 9 May 2005.
easyCruise began as a venture of easyJet founder
Stelios Haji-IoannouStelios Haji-Ioannou KBE , born 14 February 1967 in Athens, Greece, is a Greek born British entrepreneur best known for setting up EasyJet, a low-cost airline. He is of Greek Cypriot origins and is resident in London, Monaco and Athens....
, and is based on a similar concept to the airline: providing a bare-minimum "budget" service on board, and charging individually for services usually included in a cruise such as meals and room servicing.
Cruise With Stelios, internationally known as
Cruiseline, is a British made observational documentary following the lives of the passengers and crew of
easyCruiseEasyCruise is an enterprise of Greek ferry operator Hellenic Seaways, sold to them in August 2009 for £9 million by founder and Cypriot/British business man, Stelios Haji-Ioannou. EasyCruise launched their first cruise ship EasyCruiseOne in 2005...
, a no-frills cruise line established in April 2004, with the maiden voyage occurring on 9 May 2005.
easyCruise began as a venture of easyJet founder
Stelios Haji-IoannouStelios Haji-Ioannou KBE , born 14 February 1967 in Athens, Greece, is a Greek born British entrepreneur best known for setting up EasyJet, a low-cost airline. He is of Greek Cypriot origins and is resident in London, Monaco and Athens....
, and is based on a similar concept to the airline: providing a bare-minimum "budget" service on board, and charging individually for services usually included in a cruise such as meals and room servicing. Maximising the day-time available in port instead of spending time aboard the sparsely appointed ship, the ship sails in the early morning to re-position into the next port while the passengers sleep.
The series is produced by British independent production company
TwofourTwofour founded in 1988 by Charles Wace, a former TV news producer and brother of Ian Wace, has grown to become one of the largest independent media groups in the UK employing over 330 people.. It is currently the largest UK independent supplier of content to Sky One, predominately due to its...
Broadcast for Sky1,
Sky TravelSky Real Lives is an in-house channel from BSkyB that shows extensive programmes about travel, adverts for travel agencies, and documentries.-History:Sky Real Lives launched as Sky Travel on 3 October , 1994, and became part of the Sky Multichannels package...
and Sky3 in the UK, The Travel Channel in the US and other broadcasters around the world.
Not yet shown on Sky Real Lives but shown on Sky Real Lives 2. website: www.sky.com/reallifes
Documentary Episode
1 x 60 mins, Sky1 (UK) & The Travel Channel (US), May 2005
The first stand-alone episode charts the start-up of the business, right from concept, through Stelios buying a ship to refit, to the finished ship setting sail for the first time.
Series One - French & Italian Riviera
10 x 60 mins, Sky1 (UK) & The Travel Channel (US), Summer 2005 and 20 x 30 mins, Sky Travel (UK) and The Travel Channel (US), Summer 2005
The first series opens with Stelios launching easyCruiseOne in the French port of Cannes with a huge party. It follows the ship as she tours the French and Italian Riviera calling at Nice, Cannes, St Tropez, Monaco, Genoa, Portofino and Imperia.
Main Characters:
Ship Owner Stelios
Captain Roy
Captain Fabian
Cruise Director Neil
Receptionist Georgia, Donna and Kevin
DJ Dave
DJ James
Filmed onboard easyCruiseOne May to September 2005
Series Two - Caribbean
20 x 30 mins, Sky3 (UK) & The Travel Channel (US), Autumn 2006
The second series follows Stelios and his bright orange ship to the home of cruising, the Caribbean where he launches the ship in Barbados with a little help from business rival Richard Branson. Stelios is trying to pitch his ship in the important American market, selling cabins for as little as a dollar a night and bringing on two American members of crew. This season the ship calls at Barbados, St Vincent, Martinique, Bequia, Grenada and St Lucia on a weekly basis.
Main Characters:
Ship Owner Stelios
Captain Roy
Captain Fabian
Cruise Director Neil
Hotel Manager Andrew
Social Host Alex
Barman Nadhir
Receptionists Georgia, Donna and Amy
DJ Adam
Cruise Director Elsa
Filmed onboard easyCruiseOne November 2005 to April 2006
Series Three - French & Italian Riviera and Amsterdam River Cruise
20 x 30 mins, Sky3 (UK), Winter 2007
The third and final series of Cruise With Stelios will see easyCruiseOne back in the French and Italian Riviera. But Stelios has his sights on a whole fleet of orange ships and this series we will see him launch easyCruiseTwo, a riverboat to cruise from Amsterdam to Brussels, taking in Rotterdam and Antwerp on the way.
Filmed onboard easyCruiseOne May to September 2006 and easyCruiseTwo August 2006
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