Category: Ocean Cruising

You probably know him as the face of Coles supermarkets, but Curtis Stone is now a cruise ship restaurateur. The Melbourne-born foodie – now a global culinary celebrity – this week officially launched and opened ‘SHARE by Curtis Stone’, his first eatery on a Princess Cruises ship sailing in Australia. Cruise Advice joined dozens of special…

Irrespective of how many numbers come before the decimal point in the price tag of your preferred bottle of wine at your local bottle shop or wine retailer, you will most likely be able to find a blend which suits your tastes during your next cruise. Cruise ships are always well equipped with hundreds or…

Plenty of cruise lines sail between the east and west coast of Australia – usually between Sydney and Fremantle – each year. These voyages often take place as part of a repositioning of a particular ship between the two sides of the country and often, they will travel either in a northern or a southern…

Most world cruises last for around 90-100 days. Some are a bit longer at 120 days or so. Small ship cruise line Oceania Cruises has put all others to shame by once again unveiling its epic world cruise in 2019 will run for 180 days – that’s right, pretty much six whole months on one…

Evening cabaret style dinner-and-show entertainment, waterslides and a number of new outdoor top-deck activities will feature among refreshed designs of existing features onboard P&O Cruises’ forthcoming new ship Pacific Explorer. Revealed to the cruise industry and media at an event in Sydney last night, the ship which currently sails for Princess Cruises as Dawn Princess will be taken…

Unless you’re deeply familiar with a cruise ship’s layout, for most travellers the embarkation and the first time you wander around a ship is usually met with a mixture of emotions from great enthusiasm about what is to come during your holiday, shock and awe at what your ship actually allows you to do and…

A newcomer to the Australian cruise scene this past summer was Holland America Line’s MS Noordam. Taking over from MS Oosterdam, its much loved sister ship, MS Noordam has quietly but quickly developed a reputation as one of the classiest ships to call Australia home. On the larger end of the mid-size scale, Noordam packs a punch for selection with the vessel featuring…

Acclaimed Australian stageshow Burn The Floor, which wows audiences on three Norwegian Cruise Line ships in Europe and the USA, will be expanded onto luxury sister cruise line Regent Seven Seas Cruises. The fiery and evocative cavalcade of ballroom dance routines imagined by Australian theatre producer Harley Medcalf will debut from the launch of Seven Seas Explorer,…

Australians will have a much greater chance to experience the Viking Ocean Cruises product from the 2018/19 summer as the European cruise giant brings one of its brand new ships – Viking Spirit – to local waters for an extended season of cruises. As part of a significant expansion of its presence outside its European heartland and…

Alcove-style cabanas will be fitted to parts of the Lawn Club onboard Celebrity Solstice as part of a suite of enhancements coming to the ship during an upcoming nine-day dry dock refurbishment scheduled to take place in Singapore next month, Celebrity Cruises has said. The popular and quite unique Lawn Club is a half-acre of carefully curated…