Princess Cruises extends Australian cruise pause
Princess Cruises will be extending its cruise pause of operations in Australia and New Zealand until the end of May 2021. Guests will receive ...
Luxury line Regent Seven Seas reveals its 2022/23 itineraries with new destinations
Ultra-luxury cruise line Regent Seven Seas has revealed its 2022/23 Voyage Collection which includes of 148 sailings from April 2022 to the end of ...
Holland America Line sends six ships to Alaska in 2021 to help struggling tourism
Holland America Line will be sending six ships to Alaska in 2021, which will be a massive relief for the region’s tourism industry which ...
P&O will bring two brand new ships to Australia early next year
P&O Cruises Australia announced it would be bringing the newly transformed Pacific Adventure and Pacific Encounter Down Under for the first half of 2021, ...
The first cruise line offering passengers COVID travel insurance
Greek cruise line Celestyal Cruises will provide complimentary travel insurance for all new individual bookings made from now through to November 30 for March ...
The complex world of cruise refunds revealed as the ACCC promises investigation
By Bernadette Chua and Brittany Lazarus Consumer watchdog the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission is investigating travel providers over claims some are misleading consumers ...
CLIA announces mandatory COVID-testing for ships of more than 250 guests
Passengers and crew members sailing on ships that accommodate more than 250 people will have to undergo mandatory COVID-19 testing. The Cruise Lines International ...
Celebrity Cruises, Azamara and Seabourn cancel 2020/21 wave season
The Royal Caribbean group today announced that it would be cancelling Celebrity Cruises’ Australian and Asian 2020/21 wave season program. Additionally, Azamara, the small ...
Exclusive survey: How – and where – you’ll cruise in 2021 as lines report record bookings
Cruise Passenger readers are ready to sail in 2021 – but they will travel differently and they have high expectations of what they want ...
Trump campaign bids to get US cruising started next month
The White House has tried to block a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Order which was set to extend a ‘no sail’ ...
The new Enchanted Princess hits the water
Princess Cruises took delivery of their newest ship, the Enchanted Princess during a ceremony at the Fincantieri shipyard in Italy. Originally scheduled to launch ...
NSW Health’s release of Ruby Princess passengers spread COVID to a Qantas flight
Thirteen Ruby Princess cruise passengers unknowingly spread COVID-19 on a five-hour flight to Perth to at least eight others after NSW Health allowed the ...
Goodbye Pacific Dawn – P&O bids farewell to Australia’s first superliner
Say goodbye to the Pacific Dawn, one of Australia’s longest serving homeported ships. Today, P&O Cruises announced that Australia’s first superliner will be leaving ...
The bestselling ‘Follow The Lights’ small group through Norway, Finland and Estonia is back for 2021/22
Experience some of the world’s most beautiful landscapes and the wonder of the Northern Lights on this 18-day adventure. Hurtigruten’s Follow The Lights Escorted journey is an 18-day adventure ...
A newly refurbished Norwegian Spirit heads to Australia for the 2021/22 season
Norwegian Cruise Line has revealed a new and refurbished Norwegian Spirit will be heading to Australia and New Zealand for the 2021/22 local summer ...
Farewell to the Sun and the Sea – two Aussie Princess ships are sold off
Princess Cruises has announced the sale of two of its Aussie based ships – the Sun Princess and Sea Princess. The Sun Princess and ...