cruise weekly for thu 27 aug 2015 - celebrity earlybirds, gatsby on pampersando, amras cruises,...

8/20/2019 Cruise Weekly for Thu 27 Aug 2015 - Celebrity earlybirds, Gatsby on PAMPERSANDO, Amras Cruises, Pacific Jewel …

1/3

Cruise W E E K L Y

Thursday 27 Aug 2015

Website: www.cruiseweekly.com.au | Phone: 1300 799 220 | Fax: 1300 799 221 | Email: [email protected] Page 1

Cruise Weekly today Cruise Weekly today features

three pages of all the latest

cruise industry news.

Cruise

WeekExclusive CLIA MemberEventONE WEEK ONLY

Special Offers

FIND OUT MORE

F E A TU R I N G

An I n t e

r a c t i v e O n l i n e M a g a z i n e F O

R Y O U R

C L I E N T

S

Europa 2 specialsHapag-LLoyd cruises has

released some special oers for

the English-speaking market, with

local representave Gerd Wilmer

saying the cruises involved would

be a good start to overcome the

“too many Germans” objecon.

The oers, valid on the ve star

MS Europa 2 include a “second

person pays 50%” deal on ve

cruises from Mar-Oct 2016 in Asia,

India, the Middle East, Central

America and the Caribbean.

There’s a range of value-addssuch as addional on-board

beverage credits and discounts

for early bookings - more details

on 1300 136 846.

First Aussies on AmrasMcLacHLan Tours, which

aunched Amras Cruises to the

Australian market earlier this

year (CW 26 Feb), has reported

trongly posive feedback from

ts rst Australian passengers to

experience Amadeus Silver .Booking through Ovaon Travel,

he customers took Amras’

ignature 8-day ‘Danube Waltz’

Nuremberg to Budapest inerary,

with McLachlan Tours gm Peter

Smith saying the response

reinforces what a great product

Amras Cruises is going to be for

our market”.

The wholesaler is oering a

ange of last minute berths for

ruises deparng in Oct including

an eight-day trip from $4300pp,a 15-day Concerto of Castles from

Budapest to Amsterdam from

$6990pp and a 22-day European

Melody cruising from Budapest to

Amsterdam and Provence priced

rom $10,190.

See www.amrascruises.com.au.

P&O Gatsby nightspassengers aboard P&O

voyages will be able to take part

in a Gatsby evening, with the new

party concept said to “elevate the

exisng cocktail night to a new

level” (CW 21 May).Art deco theming will be

complemented with Twenes

dance lessons and even

workshops to make Gatsby-style

headpieces, with accessories

including hats, bow es and

feather boas available onboard.

The Gatsby night joins other

concepts including Back to School

nights, aernoon Vegas pares

and the already popular ‘Bianco,

the P&O White Party’.

Every P&O cruise of three nightsor more will feature a Gatsby

party, according to P&O director

of entertainment, Bre Annable.

More from P&O on h.

Singapore LegendroyaL Caribbean’s Legend of

the Seas has kicked o her 2015

Singapore season, returning to

Asia where she homeported

between 2008 and 2013.

Cruises range from 3-14 nights

through to Nov when Legend

departs for her Brisbane season.

Costa out of TurkeyreMaining port calls in Turkey

by Costa Cruises for 2015 have

been cancelled in response to

a terrorist aack on the city’s

United States Consulate.

Three Costa ships sailing in the

egion will instead visit ports in

Greece, Italy and Malta.

Celebrity earlybird launchceLebrity Cruises has today

launched a series of European

cruise earlybird specials for 2016

- just in me for the launch of the

tradional airfare earlybirds.

The cruise line is leveraging

its “unprecedented” pricing

structure ‘Go Big, Go Beer,

Go Best’ to ence cruisers to

book, with specials available for

bookings unl 20 Sep 2015.

The structure is based aroundoponal extras such as unlimited

internet, pre-paid gratuies,

a classic beverage package or

US$150 in onboard credit.

Go Big oers one free extra,

while Go Beer costs A$20 per

person per day for a choice of

two extras, and Go Best oers all

four extras for $60pp daily.

However under the earlybird

oer any Oceanview Stateroom

booking comes with a free

upgrade from the standard ‘Go

Big’ er to the premium ‘Go

Beer’ level which has two free

extras included.

Celebrity’ Europe earlybird

cruise fares start at A$2139 for a

12 night voyage aboard Celebrity

Constellaon from Rome to

Venice, deparng 27 Apr 2016.The line will oer ve dedicated

ships in Europe next year also

including Celebrity Eclipse,

Equinox and Reecon.

http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.amrascruises.com.auhttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.amrascruises.com.auhttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://micro-cruising.com.au/http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweek.org/


2/3

cruise W E E K L Y



Croatian sailing capers

tHis lucky group of top selling

Australian travel agents recently

enjoyed a ten day Croaa sailing

trip courtesy of Busabout.

The 2015 Busabout FreestyleFamil rewarded top sellers with

“the ulmate balance of partying

and relaxaon,” as they voyaged

around the coasts of the Croaan

islands - punctuated by all-night

dancing at the Soundwave Music

Fesval.

pu clearly enjoying

themselves are, back row from

le: Jan Read, Jodi Woolf, Cat

Fanto, Micaela Augousdes and

Annabelle Tidmarsh.

Front row: Kate Strong, TaylorAllan and Julian Siso Nxele.

T H E G R A S S I S G R E E N E R W I T H

C E L E B R I T Y C R U I S E S

BENEFITS TO OUR TRAVEL PARTNERS

Earn more commission | No promotional codes to enter | One simple evergreen offer

TRAVEL AGENT COMPETITION W I N A C R U I SE F O R T W O !

LEARN MORE >

INTRODUCI NG OU R

EVER G R EEN O F F ER

Crystal Esprit on saleitineraries on Crystal Cruises’

new Crystal Esprit 62-passenger

yacht (CW 20 Aug) will go onsale eecve 01 Sep, with a

selecon of voyages sailing from

the Seychelles, Dubai, Cyprus &

Jordan, and Venice, Dubrovnik &

Athens.

The all-suite Esprit will oer

seven day ineraries which can

be combined into a two-week

vacaon, with facilies including

a two-passenger submarine, wake

boards, water skis, kayaks, jet skis,

shing and snorkelling equipment,

as well as zodiacs and a tender for

excursions.

Azamara upgradesazaMara Club Cruises’

“double upgrade” deal expiresnext Mon 31 Aug, oering a Club

Verandah stateroom for the price

of a Club Interior.

Valid for new bookings on most

Azamara voyages worldwide,

the oer includes the inaugural

Australian season of Azamara

Quest which kicks o this Dec.

More details 1800 754 500.

Silversea 2016

THESE new brochures fromSilversea Cruises showcase theline’s collection of ocean andexpedition voyages sailing next

year, with its all-suite eight shipeet visiting over 800 destinationson all seven continents.

A new 192-page brochuredetails Silversea’s ocean-going voyages, while SilverseaExpeditions are highlighted in aseparate 157-page program.

Both feature new QR barcodesto provide easy connections tothe Silversea website.

Copies of the new 2016 Silverseabrochures are now available fororder via www.tifs.com.au; for

more info call 1300 306 872.

Brochure

Spotlight

Florida conferencetHe Florida-Caribbean Cruise

Associaon will welcome about

1,000 delegates to Cozumel,

Mexico from 05-09 Oct for the

annual FCCA Conference & Trade

Show, with more than 100 FCCA

member line representaves

aending the event.

Carnival Corporaon chairman

Micky Arison will deliver the

opening address and parcipate

in a high level roundtable

discussion with cruise line ceos,

while Royal Caribbean presidentAdam Goldstein will also be there.

http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweekly.com.auhttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweekly.com.auhttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweekly.com.auhttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweekly.com.auhttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://celebritycruises.com.au/tradecomphttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://celebritycruises.com.au/tradecomphttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://celebritycruises.com.au/tradecomphttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://celebritycruises.com.au/tradecomphttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://celebritycruises.com.au/tradecomphttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://celebritycruises.com.au/tradecomphttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://celebritycruises.com.au/tradecomphttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://celebritycruises.com.au/tradecomphttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://celebritycruises.com.au/tradecomphttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.tifs.com.auhttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.tifs.com.auhttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://celebritycruises.com.au/tradecomphttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweekly.com.au


3/3

cruise W E E K L Y



Cruise Weekly is Australia’s leading travel industry cruise publicaon.

An industry-focused PDF edion of Cruise Weekly is published every Tue and Thu, andthere’s also a consumer-facing email newsleer published each Wed - sign up free at

www.cruiseweekly.com.au.

pl : PO Box 1010, Epping, NSW 1710 Australia

s : 4/41 Rawson St, Epping NSW 2121 Australia

p: 1300 799 220 (+61 2 8007 6760) F: 1300 799 221 (+61 2 8007 6769)

Cruise Weekly is a publicaon of Cruise Weekly Pty Ltd ABN 73 123 041 485. All content fully protected by copyright. Please obtain wrien permission to reproduce any material. While every care has been taken in the preparaon of

the newsleer no liability can be accepted for errors or omissions. Informaon is published in good faith to smulate independent invesgaon of the maers canvassed. Responsibility for editorial comment is taken by Bruce Piper.

e: Bruce Piper [email protected]

cu: Ma Lennon, Guy Dundas, Jenny Piper, Jasmine O’Donoghueav Mk: Sean Harrigan and Magda Herdzik @uwkl.m.u

bu M: Jenny Piper [email protected]

p f h tvl dl u f ul.

business events news

Jill Abel - CEO

CDU Update

Is Asia Australia’s

next source market?THE 2015 Cruise Down Underconference, which takes place nextweek in Darwin, will be the platformfor a number of critical discussions

around the future of the cruise

industry, one of which is whetherAsia will be our next major source

market.Star Cruises announced recently

that it was returning to theAustralian market for the rst

time in 10 years (CW 26 May) withSuperStar Virgo embarking on a48-day round trip from Hong Kongin November calling at more than

20 ports. The itinerary will visit veAustralian states and showcase theWA ports of Geraldton, Fremantle

and Albany plus key cities includingMelbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

SuperStar Virgo will carry up to2,500 passengers, all visiting from

Asian markets. If the itinerary issuccessful, it’s likely more cruiselines will follow. Indeed Norwegian

Cruise Lines is already planninga return to Asia in December2016 and onto Australia and NewZealand from January 2017.

As an industry we are getting abetter understanding of what theAsian traveller is looking for whenthey come to Australia, but how

is this dierent for cruisers? AreAsian cruisers big spenders? Whatshore excursions do they enjoy? Are

they water lovers? What culturalexperiences are they looking for?

These, and many more questions,will be put to CDU Conference

speakers including MichaelHackman from Star Cruises, andAsian expert Dwain Wall.

There are still a few placesavailable and we hope to see youthere! For details and to register seewww.cruisedownunder.com.

P O R T H O L E

CRUISE ship operators havegained signicant insight intothe scourge of the dreadednorovirus, via a research projectin the US where scientistscreated a “vomit machine”.

The totally gross device(pictured) aims to answer thequestion of what happens to the

virus which has caused so muchgastrointestinal drama on someill-fated voyages.

Norovirus is notorious

for spreading like wildre,particularly in closedenvironments such as cruiseships - but it’s not exactly clearhow it spreads, with speculationthat it is “aerosolised” when asuerer blows chunks.

The scientists from NorthCarolina State and Wake ForestUniversities in the US useda range of “vomit metrics”(perhaps including the fact thatit ALWAYS contains carrots),which allowed them to controlthe “volume, viscosity andpressure of the simulatedvomiting incidents”.

They found norovirus denitelydoes have the potential to becarried as an invisible mist byair currents and thus to travel“many metres and land on manysurfaces at infectious levels” -so make sure your clients keeptheir hands to themselves!

Do you have the

Cruise Weekly app?

p&o’s Pacifc Jewel unveiled

its new look on Tue, with its rst

passengers embarking to view the

much-ancipated Pantry.

The 245m ship recently returned

from dry dock in Singapore and is

the rst P&O vessel to roll out the

new dining concept.

“It’s me to banish the buet

and really introduce a casual

dining concept that you feellike you really want to dine in”

said Bre Annable, P&O Cruises

entertainment director.

The Pantry is an internaonal

food market, where guests

can choose from eight outlets,

oering cuisine ranging from sh

and chips, burgers, Asian and the

most popular so far, Mexican.

“The concept is not about

grabbing that tray and moving

along and pung everything

on your plate and geng onechance at it.... you might try some

Mexican for entrée and then go

back and have some curry or you

might then go and have some sh

and chips and some desserts from

the sugar bar,” Annable said.

The concept will be on P&O’s

new addions arriving later in the

year, Pacifc Eden and Pacifc Aria,

and will then be rolled out onto

the rest of the ve-ship eet.

Guests on Tue also had a sneakpreview of the latest producon

show, “O the Charts” (lw)

and P&O’s latest onboard evening

entertainment concept, the

Gatsby Party ( 1).

The ship is also the rst to

introduce a Pandora store at Sea.

pu above during the

Pantry showcase are Ewe Sefel,

corporate execuve chef Carnival

Australia and Bre Annable,

director of entertainment P&O.

More exclusive pics online atfacebook.com/cruiseweekly.

Pacifc Jewel reveal
http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweekly.com.auhttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweekly.com.auhttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweekly.com.auhttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweekly.com.auhttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?mailto:[email protected]://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?mailto:[email protected]://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?mailto:[email protected]://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://businesseventsnews.com.auhttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10155968154235521.1073741913.10150116040010521&type=3http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10155968154235521.1073741913.10150116040010521&type=3http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/cruise-weekly/id931311723?mt=8http://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gmc.cruiseweeklyhttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.travelbulletin.com.auhttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://businesseventsnews.com.auhttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://traveldaily.com.auhttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.pharmacydaily.com.auhttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://traveldaily.com.au/videoshttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweekly.com.auhttp://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?mailto:[email protected]://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?mailto:[email protected]://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?mailto:[email protected]://cruiseweekly.com.au/click?http://www.cruiseweekly.com.au

cruise weekly for thu 27 aug 2015 - celebrity earlybirds, gatsby on pampersando, amras cruises,...

Documents