From Apia to Zanzibar, Luxury Line Returns to Popular Destinations

and Adds New Calls in 60 Countries

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19 -- Crystal Cruises has established its
year 2000 cruise schedule for its Six-Star fleet. From "The Classic Cruise of
the New Millennium" World Cruise to holiday voyages in the Caribbean, Crystal
Cruises has created a worldwide roster of 50 sailings with 43 different
itineraries. Crystal Harmony and Crystal Symphony will span six continents on
cruises ranging from seven to 104 days.

What's New in 2000

-- Eleven maiden ports of call, including Easter Island; Pitcairn Island;

Lome, Togo; Abidjan, Ivory Coast; the Bom Bom Island Resort, Principe;

and Isole Tremiti, Italy

-- A winter/spring 104-day World Cruise from Los Angeles to London on a

completely new route featuring 35 exotic harbors in 29 countries,

including the west coast of South America, the South Pacific, eastern

and western Australia, Asia, eastern and western Africa and western

Europe

-- A new series of Australia/New Zealand and South Pacific cruises before

and after the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, with a first-ever stop in

Tauranga, New Zealand

-- More Mediterranean cruises than ever before -- a total of nine in

spring and fall -- with overnight shipboard stays in Venice, Cannes,

Villefranche, or Istanbul, depending on the itinerary

-- Additional Scandinavia/Baltic Sea cruises: one features a new call in

Amsterdam, and two cruises with visits to Stockholm during the 2000

Annual Tall Ships' Regatta among four 12- or 13-day Baltic

Sea/Scandinavia itineraries (all with overnight shipboard stays in St.

Petersburg)

-- Additional winter South America cruises (four in all), including

cruises to Chile and an itinerary boasting a stay in Rio during

Carnaval

-- More cruises of three weeks or longer to appeal to long cruise

aficionados, including four World Cruise segments and two South Pacific

itineraries

-- An increased selection of Caribbean cruises, with a choice of

7-, 10-, 11-,or 14- day itineraries

-- Three different Alaska/Canada itineraries of 10, 11 or 12 days

(six departures)

-- For the first time in several years, both Crystal Harmony and Crystal

Symphony are offering Christmas/New Year's cruises in the Caribbean,

with convenient embarkation and disembarkation from domestic ports

Additional Highlights

-- Convenient round-trip departures, such as Caribbean cruises from

Ft. Lauderdale and Barbados, a Mexican Riviera sailing from Los Angeles

and Alaska/Canada itineraries out of San Francisco and Vancouver

-- Western Europe/Mediterranean cruises between London and Rome, with

overnights in Bordeaux or Cannes

-- Varied spring and fall Panama Canal/Caribbean itineraries with calls in

the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, West Indies and

Netherlands Antilles

-- Two seven- or 11-day getaways to the Mexican Riviera and US West Coast

Crystal Symphony

Crystal Symphony begins the new millennium with a 7-day getaway along the
Mexican Riviera, round-trip from Los Angeles. The luxury liner then embarks
on the ultimate cruise voyage, the 2000 World Cruise, "The Classic Cruise of
the New Millennium," on January 20. Featuring nearly three dozen ports in 29
countries, including eight inaugural calls, this ultra-luxurious 104-day
voyage from Los Angeles to London travels on an unusual route from North
America to South America, through the South Pacific, around East, South and
West Africa before concluding in London. Four individual voyages are
available, ranging in length from 22 to 35 days.

Following the World Cruise, Crystal Symphony sails through Western Europe
into the Mediterranean where she'll offer two spring cruises. The luxury
vessel will then return to London to start a series of summer cruises in
Scandinavia and the Baltic, including ports in Western Europe and a dramatic
rendezvous with the Cutty Sark Tall Ships in Stockholm. The ship then
repositions from London to Rome for a string of seven Mediterranean cruises in
the fall.

Crystal Symphony will cross the Atlantic and then sail the Caribbean and
Panama Canal for the remainder of 2000, including a 14-day holiday cruise from
Ft. Lauderdale to Los Angeles.

Crystal Harmony

Like her sister ship, Crystal Harmony begins 2000 with a seven-day
warm-weather getaway, this time it's a Caribbean cruise round-trip from
Barbados. Next, she will head south to spend winter on four eastern and
western South America sailings through the middle of March.

Crystal Harmony will spend the rest of the spring in the Caribbean and
Panama Canal. A voyage along the Mexican Riviera and U.S. West Coast
repositions her for summer in Alaska/Canada on varied 10-, 11- and 12-day
itineraries from San Francisco and Vancouver.

After Alaska/Canada, Crystal Harmony will make her way to Sydney for the
2000 Olympics, offering four cruises in Australia/New Zealand and the South
Pacific.

Crystal Harmony will finish out the year in the Panama Canal and celebrate
Christmas/New Year's with a Caribbean holiday from New Orleans to Ft.
Lauderdale.

Crystal Cruises is booked exclusively through professional travel agents.
For a complimentary brochure, please call 800-820-6663.

For further information on the press release, please contact Mimi Weisband
or Kristin Carlson at 310-203-4305.