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Manaus, Amazon updates and travel news

Welcome to the Visit Manaus updates centre. Here you will find updates to the most recent printed guidebook which directly affect entries in the Guide. New or supplementary information is now moved to the relevant section elsewhere on the site (for example the earlier entries on "Local travel" and "Destinations" can now be found under Tourist Information > Tours and Travel, which we hope makes more sense). Updates are provided in date order - most recent first.

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31/01/2011	Cruises Visiting Manaus in 2011 We´ve just received an updated list of the cruise ships which will visit Manaus this season, as follows (some of this is out of date already, but we include it for completeness sake): October 2010 MS Aida Vita - 1266 pax - 29/10/10 - Aida Cruises December 2010 MS Le Levant - 94 pax - 03/12/10 - Compagnie du ponant MS Regatta - 684 pax - 08/12/10 - Oceania Cruises MS Prisendam - 794 pax - 10/12/10 - Holland America Line January 2011 MS Pacific Princess - 670 pax - 04/01/11 - Princess Cruises MS Prisendam - 794 pax - Holland America Line Semester at Sea Voyager - 727 pax - 23/01/11 - Semester at Sea MS Saga Pearl II - 450 pax - 28/01/11 - Saga MS Marco Polo - 800 pax - 29/01/11 - Orient Lines February 2011 MS Braemar - 988 pax - 10/02/11 - Fred Olsen MS Boudicca - 850 pax - 14/02/11 - Fred Olsen March 2011 MS Seabourn Odyssey - 450 pax - 01/03/11 - Seabourn Seven Seas Mariner - 700 pax - 12/03/11 - Regent MS Regatta - 684 pax - 30/03/11 - Oceania Cruises April 2011 MS Veendam - 1266 pax - 01/04/11 - Holland America Line MS Hanseatic - 184 pax - 13/04/11 - Hapag-Lloyd MS Aida Vita - 1266 pax - 15/04/11 - Aida Cruises May 2011 MS Hanseatic - 184 pax - 28/05/11 - Hapag-Lloyd
20/01/2011	New city centre hotel receiving decent customer feedback. The recently-built Go Inn has been receiving reasonable ratings on various travel sites, and could be a valid option for those looking for a city-centre hotel (it is very close to the opera house). Our comments, with hotel contact details: Go Inn.
07/01/2011	First case of Dengue Type 4 registered in Amazonas. This is the wet season, and a time when - wherever you are - the number of mosquitoes is highest, and therefore the chances of getting malaria or dengue (types 1,2,3, or 4) are similarly at their peak. Although you will be at extremely low risk generally on the Rio Negro, it is always worth trying to minimise your chances of being bitten - see our health page for more. [Source: D24AM (www.d24am.com)] Amazon Falls Jungle & Bungalows Hotel A new hotel is to be built in Presidente Figueredo. No doubt given impulse by the 2014 World Cup, the new 90-room hotel complex will be built 100km from Manaus on the BR174 interstate road, and the hotel chain is already in talks with FIFA with respect to offering training facilities and accommodation to one of the hosted teams. [Source: D24AM (www.d24am.com)
29/12/2010	Manaus Airport and flights 2011 Work begins on the expansion of Manaus airport in January 2011. The airport is the worst in Brazil in terms of flight delays (48% of flights delayed), and works may worsen rather than improve the situation in the short term. Keep up to date with the visitmanaus blog.
29/12/2010	River Levels 2011 River levels have now recovered and should be up to 19m by January, allowing access to most places (Lago Janauari with care) from early January onwards.
18/10/2010	River Levels 2010 The period of low water 2010 is fairly extreme - for full details see the regularly updated River Levels Data page. The impact of this for 2010 includes: 1. Lago Janauari is inaccessible and is likely to be inaccessible from October to January 2. The Rubber Museum is currently inaccessible and is likely to be inaccessible from October to December
21/09/2010	Construction Work, Ponta Negra This work is part of the preparations for the World Cup in 2014. The first stage involves the closing off of the area that extends from the Hotel Tropical to a point approximately 1km along the waterfront. The official duration of the work is 360 days (although they never give you an official start date, so that you can never complain if they over-run). In any case, the disruption is likely to continue until at least the end of 2011. The main impacts are: 1. The open-air amphitheatre is closed; 2. The restaurant next to the Hotel Tropical, the Caderada Grill, is closed, as is the little bar O Laranjinha, where there were nightly performances of Boi-Bumbá; 3. The first aid and tourist police stations are closed or moved (no further information on this yet); 4. The main bus stop for buses serving the city centre (mainly the no. 120) is now moved to the other end of the Ponta Negra, near the turn-off to the Avenida do Turismo.