Cruise.me Sets Sail On Historic Online Maiden Voyage

Interactive, hip booking website to change the way travelers select their perfect cruise getaways

Miami, Fla. — Dec. 8, 2015 — Cruise.me (www.cruise.me) today announced the anticipated

launch of its cruise discovery website, which simplifyies how cruise travelers plan and book their

memorable nautical getaways.

Currently it is extremely difficult to book a cruise online. And surprisingly, the method of booking

a cruise online has not changed since the mid-1990s. Until now, as Cruise.me takes the pain

out of booking a cruise online, delivering a one-of-a-kind user experience that is intuitive,

interactive and fun.

It is a fresh take on a historically complicated cruise-booking process that was founded on three

basic principles: Search, discover and connect.

“Booking a cabin or suite on a cruise ship should be as easy as booking a seat on an airplane.

And now it is thanks to Cruise.me,” said Co-Founder and CEO, Stephen Chip. “Cruising is an

escape from the mundane. We want our visitors to imagine and visualize themselves in an

exotic port or tropical paradise before even setting sail for the adventure of a lifetime. We want

to foster an incredible, enjoyable experience from booking to boarding to docking.”

Cruise.me features a fun, interactive Map Explorer that allows website visitors to explore

international ports, view itineraries, discover incredible destinations and scout ships.

“If you can travel all over the world you should be able to see, and view, your journey on a map,”

The website contains exclusive content with heavy focus on destinations, port and ship content.

In fact, the interactive deck plans — and simplified online booking funnel — allow cruisers to

complete their booking in less time and fewer steps.

“Cruise ships are amazing, but that’s only half of the experience,” said Chip. “Visiting the

locations you will travel is the other half. On Cruise.me, we provide beautiful, rich imagery and

multiple photos to learn about the locations you will travel. Cruise.me puts it all together like no

Cruise.me enables visitors to create personal profiles, which can be customized with links to

favorite ports, cruises and cruise lines. The website can then provide customized

recommendations for visitors’ favorite items based on their preferences. Cruise.me also offers a

price tracker feature, which is ideal for flexible travelers to identify cost savings. Trips, itineraries

and other content is easy-to-share via social media, as well as email.

Cruise.me works in close partnership with all the major cruise lines to cover 90 percent of the

cruise market, with plans in place to capture the remaining share in 2016. It boasts a

knowledgeable, friendly team with decades of cruise experience to handle inbound phone calls.

In addition, the website features an intelligent “Help” section with answers to more than 300

frequently-asked customer questions.

“We built our application mobile first and worked back to desktop,” said Chip. “It was a

conscious decision with passengers getting younger and being more ‘social,’ consuming most

of their information from handheld and/or portable devices. Indeed, we have a dynamic team

working behind the scenes to ensure that booking a cruise is easy … and enjoyable.”

The four-strong Cruise.me executive team, all of whom are co-founders of the business,

comprise chairman Narinder Dhiensa, chief executive Stephen Chip, chief technical officer Mark

Kemper and senior programmer Imran Ahmed.