Cloud 9 Adventures is a provider of reservations, travel services, marketing, consulting, and brand management for destination music events. The company specializes in planning, promoting, and executing multi-day music events on fully chartered luxury cruise ships and at all-inclusive resorts. Cloud 9 Adventures services range from consulting on new events, working with preferred vendors, facilitating international logistics and being a fully licensed travel service provider to handle all event sales and reservations. The Cloud 9 Adventures ethos is modeled around luxury concert vacations.
The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Delray Beach, Florida. Cloud 9 Adventures' music cruises leave out of various ports in Florida, most recently out of PortMiami in Miami, Florida, and Port Canaveral in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Current and past destination music events have been located in at all-inclusive resorts in Mexico, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic. The Cloud 9 Adventures event season typically runs from December until March. The Customer Service / Travel Team of Cloud 9 Adventures handles around 20,000 reservations per event season.[1]
Past and Current Events
Jam Cruise Jam Cruise is an annual five-day music vacation held aboard a 2,700 capacity luxury cruise ship, expanding across the musical genres of jam, funk, rock, jazz, and electronic with 30+ bands and a multitude of special guests. In addition to music performances, the event hosts workshops, activities, and programs with artists’ involvement throughout the duration of the event. Jam Cruise held its 16th sailing in January 2018.[2][3][4][5]
Holy Ship! Holy Ship! is an electronic dance music festival held aboard a 4,000 capacity cruise ship. 2018 marked the tenth and eleventh sailings. The event leaves out of Port Canaveral in Cocoa Beach, FL and travels to the Bahamas with a port stop at a private island.[6] Cloud 9 Adventures presents this event in partnership with music promotion companies HARD and The Bowery Presents. [7]
Dominican Holidaze In collaboration with The Disco Biscuits, Umphrey's McGee, and Sound Tribe Sector 9, 2017 marked the 11th version of this event.[8][9] The event originally began in 2007 in Jamaica as Caribbean Holidaze. It then moved to Mexico under the name Mayan Holidaze. 2014 marked the first year it was held Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, at Breathless Punta Cana Resort & Spa. In 2016 it expanded and also took over adjacent resort, Now Onyx Punta Cana. Dominican Holidaze has featured premiere Jam Bands and Jamtronica acts such as Lotus, Big Gigantic, The New Deal, Papadosio, The Polish Ambassador, Cherub, Lettuce, and Joe Russo's Almost Dead.[10]
Also known as Mayan Holidaze and Caribbean Holidaze
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