The Royal Caribbean ship that has beaten COVID will be sailing from Brisbane

Royal Caribbean cancels Australian sailings but remains "hopeful" for 2021

Australians are keen to climb aboard Royal Caribbean’s ships for 2022 – including the first deployment of the technologically advanced Quantum of the Seas, the newest ship to the based in Brisbane. The line’s Australian MD Gavin Smith told Cruise Passenger  after months of safe sailings out of Singapore, Quantum of the Seas will be … Read more

Celebrity Cruises announces their return to Europe with the June debut of ‘Celebrity Apex’.

Celebrity Cruises announces their return to Europe with the June debut of ‘Celebrity Apex’

Celebrity Cruises is returning to Europe, with the second ship of their Edge Series, Celebrity Apex, set to debut in Greece on June 19th. Celebrity Apex’s summer season will include two itineraries, the Greek Islands with Cyprus and the Greek Islands with Israel. The first itinerary will spread itself across Rhodes, Mykonos, Santorini and along … Read more

Federal government needs to create national guidelines for Australian cruising

Flow Rider on Royal Caribbean

The chair of Cruise Lines International Association Australasia says the Northern Territory’s halt to a Kimberley season demonstrates the challenge while there are no federal government guidelines. Last weekend, the Territory health department revealed new rules which virtually grounded the plans of six small ship expedition lines to sail the Kimberley this season –  allowing … Read more

Coral Expeditions changes itineraries in WA to avoid NT cruise ban as anger grows

Amazing pictures from Coral Expeditions' circumnavigation of Tasmania

They have only been lightly touched by the pandemic – they have just one active case this week – but the Northern Territory government has issued orders that make cruise stops in Darwin a near impossibility. As Australia awaits news on whether or not there will be a Kimberley cruise season in Western Australia this … Read more

Hurtigruten’s most adventurous expedition to the Northwest Passage

The ultimate list of Polar cruise deals to book now and explore later

Follow in the footsteps of Norway’s famous explorer, Roald Amundsen with Hurtigruten’s most adventurous 26-day expedition itinerary to the Northwest Passage in 2023. The ambitious expedition cruise on board the world’s first battery hybrid ship, MS Roald Amundsen will take intrepid travellers from the Gold Rush town of Nome in Alaska, to cross the Bering … Read more

Webjet refuses $18,000 refund to cancer victim for wife’s 60th birthday cruise

Webjet refuses $18,000 refund to cancer victim for wife's 60th birthday cruise

Debra and Nicholas Grimm saved for 18 months for an $18,000 dream holiday to Canada and Alaska to celebrate a 60th birthday last June. The Grimms, accompanied by their best mates, Amanda and Malcolm Lockyer paid a total of $36,000 to Webjet for their bucket-list, 18-day holiday to experience Canada’s Rocky Mountaineer and a Celebrity … Read more

Aussies welcome to sail with Royal Caribbean once Singapore’s bubble is open, says boss

Amazing pictures: what life is like on the world's first Royal Caribbean cruise

Royal Caribbean’s Managing Director Asia Pacific, Angie Stephen, has told Cruise Passenger she will be working with the Singapore government to welcome Aussie sailors once a bubble is agreed between the countries. In an exclusive interview with Cruise Passenger Ms Stephen, who has led the highly successful sailings of Quantum of the Seas since November, added … Read more