Bernadette Chua 
Bye bye Pacific Pearl The heart-wrenching aria, Time to Say Goodbye played as Pacific Pearl, one of Australia’s favourite ships left Sydney Harbour earlier this week. She’s en route to New Zealand for her last season of cruises from Auckland before she leaves the cruise line. The Pacific Pearl joined P&O Cruises in December 2010 … Read more
Royal Caribbean is currently advertising for lifeguards to man the pools on Ovation of the Seas. After a number of drownings on the Miami-based cruise company’s ships, the line has taken steps to protect passengers from any more incidents. Last year, an eight-year-old child died in June aboard Anthem of the Seas after he was … Read more
P&O’s new ship, the Pacific Explorer will have the iconic Southern Cross, across the bow of the ship. The Southern Cross is a national symbol in both Australia and New Zealand and the constellation has guided generations of seafarers. “We couldn’t think of a more powerful symbol to launch Pacific Explorer’s new era of local … Read more
She is the fourth largest ship in the world and the biggest to ever sail in Australian waters – Royal Caribbean’s Ovation of the Seas arrived in Sydney yesterday. Cruise Passenger has sailed on Ovation during her float out in Germany as well as her inaugural cruise in Singapore. But yesterday, we were also lucky enough … Read more
The 3,000 passenger Carnival Splendour will be joining P&O Cruises Australia in 2019, making her bigger than any of the lines’ ships. This will mean for Aussie cruisers there are more opportunities to cruise with P&O as the line will be doubling its capacity in just four years. The decision was announced today as Royal Caribbean’s Ovation … Read more
Ovation arrives in Australia this week Royal Caribbean’s Ovation of the Seas, Australia’s biggest, newest and most advanced cruise ship ever, has made landfall at last. The billion dollar megaliner arrived in Fremantle this week and will be in Hobart on Monday. When Ovation of the Seas makes her new hometown debut in Sydney, TV … Read more
What we say: Smaller ships, bigger cabins and edgy activities are a great mix for family cruising. Enter P&O Cruises, offering Aussie families all this and more. With two new ships launched in the past 12 months and two more on the way, our local line is on track to take on the big internationals. … Read more
The count down is on till Royal Caribbean’s Ovation of the Seas arrives in her homeport in Sydney on December 15. She’s already sailing in Australian waters after arriving in Fremantle earlier this week and she’ll be visiting Hobart on December 13. She is the largest ship to be sailing in Down Under and there … Read more