Cruise Passenger Readers’ Choice Awards winners
NewsFor almost a decade, Cruise Passenger Readers’ Choice Awards have provided vital feedback to the Australian cruise industry.
Today, with more choice than ever, the need from genuine reviews of experience, service and satisfaction has never been more important.
Cruise Passenger, Australia’s only cruise magazine with a 15-year history of reporting on the industry, receives thousands of reviews and comments from its 56,000 readers every year.
The Cruise Passenger Readers’ Choice Awards are the culmination of all of that feedback.
The awards are among the world’s most comprehensive, covering everything from ships to ports, from luxury to adventure.
Enclosed are the results of the 2013 awards.
Though many of Australia’s old favourites still rank highly, this year has seen a number of new winners – Seabourn and Cunard.
And, after a very tight race between P&O and Royal Caribbean, echoing their epic battle for dominance on the seas, P&O took out Best Mid-Range Cruise Line (Royal Caribbean was number two) while Radiance of the Seas won Best Mid-Range Cruise Ship (P&O’s Pacific Dawn was second).
Other duels included Best Luxury Cruise Ship, where Seabourn and Silversea battled it out, and in adventure, where Silversea and Orion locked horns.
Australia’s Scenic Tours took out Best River Cruise Line while APT’s AmaBella won Best River Cruise Ship.
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Best Luxury Cruise Line
WINNER: Seabourn Cruise Line
SECOND: Silversea Cruises
THIRD: Crystal Cruises
Best Luxury Cruise Ship
WINNER: Seabourn Pride
SECOND: Seabourn Sojourn
THIRD: Silver Shadow
Best Premium Cruise Line
WINNER: Cunard Line
SECOND: Princess Cruises
THIRD: Celebrity Cruises
Best Premium Cruise Ship
WINNER: Queen Mary 2
SECOND: Azamara Quest
THIRD: Celebrity Solstice
Best Mid-Range Cruise Line
WINNER: P&O Cruises
SECOND: Royal Caribbean
THIRD: Norwegian Cruise Line
Best Mid-Range Cruise Ship
WINNER: Radiance of the Seas
SECOND: Pacific Dawn
THIRD: Pacific Jewel
Best Soft Adventure Cruise Line
WINNER: Captain Cook Cruises Fiji
SECOND: True North
THIRD: Windstar
Best Soft Adventure Cruise Ship
WINNER: Reef Endeavor
SECOND: True North
THIRD: Murray River Princess Queen
Best Expedition Cruise Line
WINNER: Orion
SECOND: Silversea
THIRD: Aurora
Best Expedition Cruise Ship
WINNER: Silver Explorer
SECOND: Orion
THIRD: Silver Spirit
Best River Cruise Line
WINNER: Scenic
SECOND: APT
THIRD: Avalon
Best River Cruise Ship
WINNER: MS AmaBella
SECOND: SS Antoinette
THIRD: Avalon Panorama
Best Cruise Region
WINNER: Mediterranean
SECOND: Alaska
THIRD: Baltic/Northern Europe/UK
Best Cruise Port
WINNER: Sydney
SECOND: Venice
THIRD: Hong Kong
Best Individual Travel Agency
WINNER: Bicton Travel
SECOND: World Travel Professionals
THIRD: Seniors Holiday Travel
Best Group Travel Agency
WINNER: Flight Centre
SECOND: Harvey World Travel
THIRD: Cruiseabout