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Singles cruise successSOLO travellers cruising on
board Carnival Spirit for the
naugural singlescruising.com.au
rip have just returned from their
nine night South Pacic voyage.
About 90 passengers enjoyed
hosted acvies and events as
part of the singles group. Cruise Holidays md Les Farrar
hailed the rst sailing out of
ydney as a great success.
“There are many people out
here who don’t want to be on a
ruise by themselves and don’t
normally have anyone to travel
with,” Farrar said.
“By joining our group they were
ble to mingle with like minded
people and form new friendships
mmediately.
“We have already set the nextinglescruising sailing date for
2016 and expect to start running
more regular departures from
hen on,” Farrar added.
QM2 Lisbon delayCUNARD’S Queen Mary 2 was
briey delayed this week as she
ruised out of Lisbon, Portugal
due to a small re which broke
out in its gas turbine exhaust.
According to Cruise Law News one of the vessel’s cruise pods
also malfunconed, with the ship
now back on schedule for a 15
Dec trans-Atlanc departure from
Southampton to New York.
Eight coins forSilversea’s Silver Muse
CONSTRUCTION has started on
Silversea Cruises’ Silver Muse with
a milestone keel-laying ceremony
in Genoa, Italy.The ceremony is a marime
tradion with welding a coin into
the keel of the ship said to bring
good luck during the build and to
the captain and crew during her
later life.
Silversea has taken this one step
further by welding eight coins
into the keel of Silver Muse, with
coins coming from each connent
the line sails to as well as a
specially designed Silver Muse
commemorave coin.That means there’s a South
African Rand, a US 50c piece, a
Brazilian real, a Euro, a Singapore
dollar, a special Antarcc
Trust and of course a good old
Australian dollar too.
Silversea ceo Enzo Visone said
the keel laying was a signicant
milestone for the line, with Silver
Muse to sail throughout Europe,
Canada, North and South America
as well as the Caribbean, taking in
more than 130 desnaons in 34countries.
The ship has 298 suites which
can accommodate 596 guests.
Passenger overboardA FEMALE passenger has gone
missing o the Saga Sapphire
while the ship was crossing the
Atlanc Ocean last weekend.
Saga has issued a statement
onrming that aer searching
he ship the 70-year-old Brish
woman could not be found.
The company is working in
onjuncon with marime
authories and the Saga Sapphire
ruise has turned round to
onduct a search.The ship is currently on a 35 day
voyage from Southampton to the
Caribbean.
Abu Dhabi cruise launch
MSC Cruises has become the
rst line to operate voyages from
Abu Dhabi’s brand new cruise
terminal, which ocially debuted
on the weekend with a departure
by MSC Musica.
Located in the emirates’ Zayed
Port, the 8,000 square metre
terminal houses all key passengerfacilies, retail outlets and a café.
The architectural design of the
new development is based on the
UAE’s heritage and identy, with
a view of the Louvre Museum on
Saadiyat Island.
The terminal took a year to build
and is being hailed a landmark
achievement for the growth of
cruise tourism in the area.
MSC Musica will serve the
region for the 2015/2016 cruise
season which runs from now unl03 April 2016.
MEANWHILE the opening has
also seen Ehad Airways become
the rst Middle Eastern airline
oering on-site airline check-in at
a cruise terminal.
Ehad and MSC are also oering
special y-cruise packages, while
EY’s desnaon management
business, Hala Abu Dhabi, is also
providing a porolio of eight
unique guided shore excursions
for MSC guests.Ehad chief commercial ocer
Peter Baumgartner said the new
terminal represented “our shared
vision alongside our local partners
to posion Abu Dhabi as a world-
class transport hub.”
“Cruising is an excing and
fast growing sector of the travel
industry and we look forward
to helping develop this segment
further with the expansion of
our services from the brand new
cruise terminal in Abu Dhabi,”
Baumgartner said. Many of the ground services
will be handled by EY including
return coach transfers between
the airport & cruise terminal.
Pictured above from le at the
launch are Sultan Al Dhaheri,
Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture
Authority’s acng execuve
director tourism; Ehad’s Hareb
Al Muhairy, Khaled Almehairbi
and Peter Baumgartner; MSC
Cruises ceo Gianni Onorato,
Captain Mohamed Al Shamisi,Abu Dhabi Ports ceo; and Noura
Al Dhaheri, Abu Dhabi Ports
cruise terminal manager.
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Don’t they look magnifcent...
THIS group of Aussie travel
gents recently enjoyed the
delights of central Europe as they
ampled part of APT’s popular
Magnicent Europe inerary
board the MS AmaVenita.
Highlights included a visit to
he 14th century Namedy Castle
where they experienced one of
APT’s exclusive Royal Invitaons,
which included a lavish dinner in
he Hall of Mirrors complete with
white-gloved waing sta.Pictured above, back row from
e: Bree Donnelly, APT; Richelle
Reeves, Suncity Travel Caloundra;
Natalie Cherry, Noosa Cruise
& Travel; Sophie Anderson,
Desnaon HQ Mentone; Claire
Freeman, APT; Alf Marrocco,
APT; Emma Bryson, Flight Centre
Dural; and Linda Becke, Flight
Centre Penrith Mega Store.
Front row: Tenneil Lawson,
APT; Sarah Browning, Clayeld
Travel Professionals; MariaKelson, helloworld Warrnambool;
nd Kelly Tucker, Flight Centre
Kalamunda.
Antarctica is so hot right nowCUSTOMER
demand for
Antarcc cruises is
stronger than ever,
with passenger
numbers for Chimu
Adventures to the
icy connent more
than doubling since
2008.
Chimu
Adventures boss
Greg Carter (pictured) said the
trend had been climbing sharplyover the past 18 months.
“We’ve really seen a big change
in consumer behaviour over the
past couple of years. Antarcca is
denitely back on the bucket list
for many travellers,” he said.
“The GFC had a major impact
on demand however that’s really
turned around now as people
have decided there’s no point
delaying their travel any longer.”
Looking at the company’s strong
forward bookings Carter said itwould seem customers are more
condent about the future than
in previous years.
There are sll limited cabins le
on Chimu’s Antarcc program for
next year, but Carter is predicng
they will ll up fast.
Among the most popular
departures isChimu’s Classic
Antarcca 11 day
round trip from
Ushuaia, Argenna,
the world’s
southernmost city.
As well as
standard cruises
Chimu will operate
a number of special
guest departures
for 2017, including an Antarcc
trip with Samuel Johnson,the popular Australian actor
behind the breast cancer charity
Love Your Sister , plus another
adventure with much-loved
media personalies and serious
Antarcc fans Andrew Denton
and Jennifer Byrne.
This will be the couple’s 11th
trip to the frozen connent.
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GRAND Pacic Tours partneringwith Celebrity Cruises has a newbrochure with tours combininga cruise aboard Celebrity Solstice and a luxury coach tour, withdepartures Nov 2016 – Feb 2017.
Cruise destinations includethe majestic ords of Milford,Doubtful and Dusky Sounds,Dunedin, Akaroa, Wellington,Tauranga, the Bay of Islands andAuckland.
The land tours aim to givetravellers the complete NZexperience and see key icons notincluded on the cruise.
Victoria renovationYANGTZE River operator
Victoria Cruises has announcedupgrades for its six-year-old
Victoria Jenna, to ensure the
vessel remains at the forefront of
the Chinese cruise sector.
The vessel will rejoin the eet in
Apr 2016 sailing the Three Gorges
Highlight inerary.
Victoria Cruises’ 2016 program
includes six weekly departures
both upstream from Yichang (four
nights) and downstream from
Chongqing (three nights) on the
Three Gorges Highlight trip.There’s also the six or eight
night Grand Yangtze Discovery
voyage which sails the full
navigable length of the river on
the ve star Victoria Sophia.
Island Escape add-onsISLAND Escape Cruises has
launched package deals for
its new Tahian Aair cruises,
adding arrival transfers, one
night’s accommodaon and
domesc ight connecons.
The addional items are
included in the gross Island
Escape cruise fares, but if agents
wish to package themselves there
will be a credit of NZ$750 per
person applicable.
New Star presidentGENTING Hong Kong has
announced the appointment of
Ang Moo Lim as president of Star
Cruises, taking over from the
line’s acng president, Genng
HK ceo Tan Sri Lim Kok.
It’s an expansion of his exisng
role which also sees him as the
rm’s execuve vice president
of sales, markeng and hotelsas well as being country head
of Indochina, Taiwan, Malaysia,
Indonesia and Singapore.
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YORKEYS KNOBPacific Dawn 15 Dec
ALBANYAstor 17 Dec
SYDNEYRadiance of the Seas 15 DecExplorer of the Seas 16 DecPacific Eden 16 DecNoordam 17 DecPacific Pearl 17 Dec
Voyager of the Seas 18 DecCarnival Spirit 19 DecCarnival Legend 20 DecDiamond Princess 21 DecDawn Princess 21 Dec
Cruise
Calendar
This week’s port calls of cruise
ships at various destinationsaround Australia and NewZealand.
BRISBANEPacific Jewel 16 DecPacific Aria 17 DecSea Princess 18 Dec Pacific Dawn 19 Dec
Legend of the Seas 20 DecDARWINSuperstar Virgo 17 Dec
CAIRNSPacific Aria 20 Dec
MELBOURNEPacific Jewel 17 DecGolden Princess 21 Dec
AUCKLANDVoyager of the Seas 15 DecCelebrity Solstice 16 Dec
WITSUNDAYSPacific Aria 19 DecPacific Eden 20 Dec
FREMANTLEAstor 19 DecSun Princess 20 Dec
WELLINGTONGolden Princess 15 DecCelebrity Solstice 20 Dec
PORT DOUGLASPacific Dawn 16 Dec
ABOVE: This lucky group of
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of the Seas for a Royal Caribbean
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As well as exploring all of the
ship’s dierent oerings theywere treated to a FlowRider
demonstraon from Royal
Caribbean’s sports sta as well
as a visit from Madagascar’s King
Cruiseco likes to move it on Voyager
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on ships powered by baery
technology and algae fuel.
Speaking in the wake of the
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Conference, Hurgruten’s chief
execuve ocer Daniel Skjeldam
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Julian, star of Voyager of the
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NCLH into top indexNORWEGIAN Cruise Line
Holdings is set to become part
of the NASDAQ-100 Index aer a
reweighng of stocks on the New
York-based exchange.
The index comprises the 100largest non-nancial stocks on
the NASDAQ based on market
capitalisaon, with NCLH
president and ceo Frank Del Rio
saying the rm was “honoured to
join this elite group of the world’s
most successful and dynamic
companies”.
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