Cruise Passenger’s weekly travel roundup 3
Celebrity Solstice returns Down Under A spruced-up Celebrity Solstice returned to Australian waters all decked up with half an acre of freshly mowed lawn ...
The class of 2017 – the ships making maiden calls to Australia
This year’s wave season will see a whole new fleet of ships which will make their inaugural trips to Australia. And over the next ...
Can’t splash the cash? Get free cruise credit with layby
Cruiser Passengers are among the biggest users of  lay-by travel, which automatically deduct small amounts from your account so you don’t feel the pinch. ...
Official: The best cruise destinations for 2017
Some of the world’s best and most exotic cruising destinations have been selected by the people who should know –  the world’s cruise lines. ...
Hold the phone, it might explode, say cruise lines
Major cruise lines like Royal Caribbean and Carnival are banning cruise passengers and crew members from using Samsung Galaxy Note 7 onboard its ships ...
Where Aussies love to cruise in Asia
Singapore and Hong Kong are the new hot destinations for Australian cruisers. Royal Caribbean Line has doubled the number of Australian passengers heading to ...
Azamara Club Cruises commits to Australian cruisers
The newly refurbished Azamara Journey will be heading to Australia in just six months. The line has spent US$25 million on the upgrade to cabins, ...
Royal Caribbean farewells Australia after a successful wave season
Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas made her final call to Sydney last Saturday, marking the end of the summer cruise season for the ...
Aussie cruisers save hundreds thanks to record bargain bundles
Australian cruisers are getting prices better than five years ago, we can reveal. We spoke to industry experts who told Cruise Passenger that, because ...
Azamara’s crocodile excursion in 2016
Azamara Cruises, popular amongst cruisers for immersion experiences, has added crocodile watch excursion as a new offering in 2016. The excursion is part of ...
Royal Caribbean signals cruise season battle
Australia’s biggest cruise season ever was marked today by the arrival of Royal Caribbean’s Radiance of the Seas – the first of seven ships ...
Azamara ships to be reimagined in dry dock
Azamara Club Cruises has announced today that both Azamara Quest and Azamara Journey will be entering dry dock in early 2016 as part of ...
How Azamara bridges the gap between premium and luxury
After a hasty launch in 2007, Azamara Club Cruises undertook an ambitious overhaul last year to reinvent itself and create an intriguing new category in the cruise industry: ‘luxury lite’.
Azamara Journey, Day 8: Pompeii
Attempt No. 2 to catch the train from Sorrento to Pompeii worked – a 30-minute journey that takes you right to the gates of arguably the most famous archeological site in the world. Having had local guides at Valletta and Mt Etna, we knew we’d benefit from the services of an official guide here, and, after paying the entrance fee (11 euros), were lucky enough to find the wonderfully informative and entertaining guide Mario Visconti (10 euros).
Azamara Journey, Day 7: Sorrento
Our plan was to take the train from Sorrento to Pompeii but when we arrived at the station we discovered that there was a rail strike – these occur at random with little or no warning. Plan B was to take the local bus along the Amalfi Coast to Positano – but of course that was everyone else’s Plan B as well, so the queue was horrendous.
Azamara Journey, Day 6: Sicily to Sorrento
Best of the Best was a memorable dinner, hosted by Captain Ikiadis, cruise director Eric De Gray (very funny guy), hotel director Scott Daniels and chief engineer Evangelos Miskedakis. It was served in the Drawing Room while we sailed through the Strait of Messina...
