Pacific Pearl

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A heroic week of cruise ship rescues

It was a week of heroic rescues after a team from Rescue 500, the Queensland Government’s air rescue helicopter and the Sun Princess came to the aid of several people. Rescue 500 air lifted three people […]

WORDS BY Bernadette Chua . Sep 30 2016
News

P&O finalises contract for new Australian ship

P&O Cruises Australia has finalised the creation of its new ship which will be built specifically for the Australian and New Zealand market. The ship will be launched in 2019 and will be the largest […]

WORDS BY Bernadette Chua . Apr 4 2016
News

P&O farewells Pacific Pearl from fleet

One of Australia’s most loved ships, P&O’s Pacific Pearl will be leaving the fleet in April 2017, it was announced today. But who will sail her when she leaves Australia is a mystery. P&O refused […]

WORDS BY Bernadette Chua . Mar 4 2016
News

How to find love on a cruise ship

Music may be the food of love, but in today’s world a dating app is more likely to find its mark than Cupid’s arrow. Instead of getting wined and dined, we’ve been reduced to algorithmic […]

WORDS BY Bernadette Chua . Feb 19 2016
News

What a Pearler! P&O issues denial after passengers claims poor behaviour aboard the Pearl

P&O has come to the defence of cruislings after passengers contacted Cruise Passenger to claim poor behaviour aboard the Pacific Pearl 16-day cruise around the South Pacific. According to the passengers, while most of the […]

WORDS BY Cruise Passenger . Oct 30 2015
Dining

Create cocktails like you’re on your favourite cruise ship

“I love to drink martinis. Two at the very most. Three I’m under the table. Four I’m under my host.” So said famous writer and critic Dorothy Parker, way back in the Roaring Twenties. Martinis, […]

WORDS BY Cruise Passenger . May 1 2015