Royal Caribbean Announces Pricing Of $650 Million Senior Unsecured Notes Offering

MIAMI, Nov. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE, OSE: RCL) today announced that it has priced an offering of $650 million aggregate principal amount of Senior Unsecured Notes due 2022. The offering was upsized from the previously announced $500 million aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes. The Senior Unsecured Notes were priced at 100% of the principal amount, will bear interest at the rate of 5.250% per annum and will mature on November 15, 2022. The Senior Unsecured Notes are expected to be issued on November 7, 2012.

The company plans to use the proceeds from the offering to repay amounts outstanding under its unsecured debt facilities.

Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC acted as global coordinators and joint physical book-running managers.  Goldman, Sachs & Co., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and RBS Securities Inc. acted as joint book-running managers.

The offering was made pursuant to a shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A written prospectus for the offering may be obtained if you request it by calling Citigroup Global Markets Inc., toll-free at 1-800-831-9146 or J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, toll-free at 1-800-245-8812.

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE,OSE: RCL) is a global cruise vacation company that owns Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, Pullmantur, Azamara Club Cruises and CDF Croisieres de France, as well as TUI Cruises through a 50 percent joint venture.  Together, these six brands operate a combined total of 41 ships with four under construction.  They operate diverse itineraries around the world that call on approximately 460 destinations on all seven continents. 

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the Senior Unsecured Notes, nor shall it constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful.

Certain statements in this release relating to, among other things, our future performance, constitute forward-looking statements.  Words such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "goal," "intend," "may," "plan," "project," "seek," "should," "will," and similar expressions are intended to identify these forward-looking statements.  Forward-looking statements reflect management's current expectations, are inherently uncertain and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, which could cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from the future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied in those forward-looking statements.  Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the following: the impact of the economic environment on the demand for cruises, the impact of the economic environment on our ability to generate cash flows from operations or obtain new borrowings from the credit or capital markets in amounts sufficient to satisfy our capital expenditures, debt repayments and other financing needs, the uncertainties of conducting business internationally and expanding into new markets, changes in operating and financing costs, vacation industry competition and changes in industry capacity and overcapacity, emergency ship repairs, including the related lost revenue, the impact of ship delivery delays, ship cancellations or ship construction price increases, financial difficulties encountered by shipyards or their subcontractors and incidents or adverse publicity concerning the cruise vacation industry such as the Costa Concordia casualty and the unavailability or cost of air service.