Did dressing for dinner turn Aussies off Cunard?
Increasing costs, poor exchange rates, even dressing for dinner – have been some of the reasons floated for Cunard’s withdrawal.
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How Ambassador Cruise Line heralds the return of affordable world cruising
Ambassador Cruise Line, the new British line launched since the pandemic will see the return of affordable world cruises. The new cruise line will make its Australian debut in 2024 with Dean Brazier, the former head of Cruise & Maritime Voyages, leading the local operations. Many of the CMV staff have re-joined Ambassador Cruise Line, … Read more
BEST CRUISE LINES OF 2022
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]It’s been a stupendous year for the cruise industry with lines coming back bigger and better than ever in 2022. This year’s extraordinary Reader’s Choice Awards saw thousands of you vote in more categories than we’ve ever had before. The cruise industry has started with a bang of ship launches and announcements, which is … Read more
LAST CABINS AVAILABLE: Bookings soar from new and past cruise fans
With just 10 days to go before the first cruise carrying fare-paying passengers leaves from Sydney, bookings are skyrocketing and those in the industry say cruises are flying off the shelves. Having been denied the chance to cruise close to home for so long, the experts say many Aussies are opting to cruise domestically. And … Read more
Carry on cruising after 48 cases on the world’s largest cruise ship shows we’ve learned to coexist with COVID
No one is cancelling. And few are surprised. Royal Caribbean announced this week that 48 cases of COVID had been detected on the world’s largest cruise ship, Symphony of the Seas, carrying 6091 passengers and crew. That’s 0.78 per cent of passengers and crew. And while the incident sparked a few headlines, the ship’s itineraries … Read more
Play tennis against John McEnroe on an Antarctic cruise
Luxury small ship line, Atlas Ocean Voyages is holding a professional tennis exhibition cruise in Antarctica where John and Patrick McEnroe will battle it out on the tennis court – in Antarctica. The 11-day voyage, which departs from 22 February, 2022 is the first of a series of themed cruises run by Legends Abroad, where … Read more
Best cruise lines of 2020
Welcome to our Readers’ Choice Awards for this, the most extraordinary year in our 25 years of publishing. We thought long and hard about whether we should run these awards at all, given 2020 saw only three months of cruising. But we know how much our readers and the cruise lines look forward to the results … Read more
After millennials, drag and tattoo, now U by Uniworld tries teens
U by Uniworld, the river cruise line that is constantly reinventing itself, has now targeted perhaps the most difficult and dreaded market of all: teens. The line which started out boldly chasing millennials and refusing boarding to anyone over 45 (a policy later abandoned) will now welcome “Gen Z on U” – a family program … Read more
Line by line: Who’s doing what to attract new cruisers
Move over baby boomers, river cruising has found a new wave of younger, more active travellers. Eighty per cent of travel agents are saying river cruising is the perfect gateway to attract first time cruisers… and more than a third of those now daring to sail the slow way are Generation Y’s and Millennials. According to … Read more
