Carnival, P&O Australia launch 2024 Melbourne Cup cruises
Carnival Cruises and P&O Australia offer exciting itineraries perfectly timed for experiencing 'the race that stops the nation' - the 2024 Melbourne Cup.
Melbourne is fast becoming a major port for lines like Princess Cruises, Cunard as well as P&O to send their ships to in 2019. This week, the premium/luxury cruise line announced it would be homeporting […]
Carnival Cruise Line is homeporting the Carnival Legend in Melbourne for 16 sailings over 2018/19. She will now call Melbourne home with her first cruise leaving this afternoon to New Caledonia. Announcing the news and […]
Cunard to base Queen Elizabeth in Australia for two months as demand takes off
For the first time in the company’s illustrious 179-year history, Cunard is to homeport a ship in Australia. The Queen Elizabeth – a 90,900 tonne luxury Cunarder – will offer cruises from Sydney and Melbourne […]
Passengers on board the Golden Princess have been told to look for signs for a rare form of hepatitis. Symptoms include chills, vomiting as well as abdominal pain. The warning is only for guests who […]
P&O pioneers adventure and targets families with Pacific Explorer
The battle for the Aussie family cruise passenger will be joined in earnest next year, when P&O’s new ship Pacific Explorer enters the fleet. Arriving in June 2017, Pacific Explorer will throw down the gauntlet […]
One of Australia’s favourite ships, Carnival Legend will be re-homported to Melbourne, moving from her home at Sydney’s Overseas Passenger Terminal. She’ll be moving to the capital of Victoria at the beginning of 2018 and […]
Guests onboard P&O’s three iconic ships – the Pacific Jewel, Pacific Pearl and Pacific Dawn – celebrated this year’s Melbourne Cup in style. It was also a momentous occasion for Pacific Dawn as it was […]
Golden Princess makes a theatrical entrance into Melbourne
Travel writer Sue Wallace was one of the first onboard to review Australia’s newest homeported ship for Cruise Passenger as she arrives in Melbourne this morning. See what she thinks about the ship. Cruise ship […]
Golden Princess arrives in Australia ahead of her season in Melbourne
In just a few days Melbourne will welcome its first homeported Princess Cruises ship as Golden Princess makes her way back from Noumea to her new base. The ship will be based in Melbourne from […]
Your guide to Australia’s biggest ever wave season
First came the biggest growth rate in the world and more than a million cruisers. Now Australia is gearing up for its biggest wave season ever. All our favourite lines are planning more homeported ships […]
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