Teresa Ooi 
The Port Authority of New South Wales has announced the first round of community information sessions to discuss Sydney’s proposed third cruise terminal near Botany Bay. And residents are also planning a meeting this weekend over the proposal. An open meeting will be held Sunday 17th at 2pm at Yarra Bay Sailing club, and organisers … Read more
Carnival Cruise Line will for the first time sail to the Kimberley, Papua New Guinea and Dravuni Island in Fiji in 2021-2022. The line has earmarked Carnival Spirit and Carnival Splendor to sail to these three new destinations including a 15-day sailing between Singapore and Brisbane calling at the Kimberley, making a maiden call to … Read more
Viking fans can look forward to the return of Viking Orion Down Under when she sails in Australian waters for three months from December 2021 to March 2022 – her fourth consecutive season. Viking Orion will offer six 15-day Australia and New Zealand itineraries from Sydney to Auckland. She ends her season with a 17-day … Read more
If cruising to the Antarctic has always been top of your bucket list but you dread battling the stomach-churning high seas of the Drake Passage, then Aurora Expeditions may be your answer. The line has just launched its innovative expedition ship, Greg Mortimer equipped with a cutting-edge prow designed to cut through choppy waves and … Read more
Aurora Expeditions has christened its latest innovative ship, Greg Mortimer, in a ceremony set against the snow-capped mountains of Ushuaia in Argentina. Godmother to the ship, Margaret Mortimer, smashed a ceremonial piece of Antarctic ice against the world’s first passenger expedition ship featuring the Ulstein X-Bow. The inverted bow design enables the ship to cut … Read more
Garden designer and TV personality Jamie Durie is the latest “star” to join Queen Elizabeth’s inaugural Gardening Voyage in Australia when she departs Sydney on 1 March 2021. Durie will share his ideas on landscape design, future gardening trends and how to make home gardens more sustainable during the cruise which will call at Hobart … Read more
Australians on holiday will only tolerate being without internet access for a maximum of three days, a shock survey by Princess Cruises reveals. One in two people surveyed said they will take a cruise holiday – but only if they had access to high speed internet at a “reasonable cost.” Conducted by YouGov, the survey found … Read more
Barbara Muckermann is dismissive. “We did celebrity chefs 20 years ago,” says the Silversea Cruises Chief Marketing Officer. “Now the cruise industry is ready for our new food trend, S.A.L.T.” S.A.L.T stands for Sea And Land Taste. It will debut on Silverseas’s new luxury ship, Silver Moon in August next year, followed by Silver Dawn … Read more
Australia’s cruising industry continues to grow by double digits, contributing $5.2 billion to the national economy in 2018-19 – an increase of 11.2 per cent. The latest annual Economic Impact Assessment commissioned by Cruise Lines International Association and the Australian Cruise Association showed that 18,135 full time jobs were supported by the cruise sector in … Read more
She's the most specious ship yet from luxury line Oceania Cruises. James Sitters tells Rose Kelly and Peter Lynch what's on board the new class of ship, including restaurants, spas and suites.
