Category: Ocean Cruising

With recent rises to the cost of obtaining a passport and simultaneous slides in the Aussie Dollar, it’s becoming more economical than ever to cruise close to home. But it’s not just the seven-night Queensland coastal runs that you have to settle for – there are plenty of great sea jaunts in Australia that still…

As many as 1,800 tennis fans are bound for Melbourne onboard Pacific Pearl as the ship departs Sydney today on P&O Cruises’ third annual cruise to the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament which began yesterday in the Victorian capital. The five-night round-trip voyage will spend a day at sea tomorrow before arriving in Melbourne…

If you have always wanted to live the suite life but your budget hasn’t been quite sweet enough, Princess Cruises might just have the answer for you. Some of the hidden gems of the line’s ships Grand Princess, Golden Princess & Caribbean Princess include seven Window Suites, hidden away in a private corridor on Deck 6, or…

Princess Cruises will begin the rollout and installation process of parent company Carnival Corporation’s revolutionary Ocean Medallion from this week when Caribbean Princess enters the dry dock renovation yard in the Bahamas. While the Ocean Medallion system will not actually be switched on until March next year, the 3,140-passenger ship will be fitted with all of the…

Four Royal Caribbean ships will sail from three cities in Aussie waters over the 2017/18 Australian cruise season, as the line today released details of its next summer deployment which will run from September 2017 until April 2018. Bookings for the season will open for sale on Thursday 21 April 2016. The season sees confirmation…

Sydney Harbour is becoming something of a literal example of the paradox ‘the irresistible force meets the immovable object’. The force clearly being the booming cruise industry and the object being the stalemate on available berth space for them to dock, and the issue is already showing evidence that cruise ships are now looking outside…

At a mammoth 106 nights in length, Princess Cruises will soon release its most extended world cruise for sale to set sail from Australia, with the extraordinary voyage also marking the 10th anniversary of the line’s first global circumnavigation from local shores. Scheduled to depart on 05 June 2018, the three-and-a-half-month odyssey on Sea Princess will tie…

P&O Cruises has completed simultaneous drydock projects on the two ships which have become Pacific Aria and Pacific Eden – both ships now bound for Australia. The line has released this new video showcasing the transformation of the ship. The clip includes interviews with senior members of the design team, who have personally overseen the…

Seattle-based Holland America Line will sail more cruises to Alaska in 2017 than any other cruise line, basing half of its 14-ship fleet along the west coast of the USA between late April and late September next year. Available cabins in this part of the world have been boosted this week with the line making…

With so many different ships crossing the Pacific between Australia and Hawaii at either end of the peak cruising season, the question arises – which direction is best? There are positives and negatives to consider, which we will look at here. What’s great? Cheap fares – Cruise lines generally exist to chase the sun and the warm months,…