Princess Cruises has announced that contracts to build two 3,600-passenger ships have been finalized with Italy's Fincantieri shipyard.
Women rule the waves as P&O Cruises welcomes first female Captain in 173 year history
1,200 passenger ship Artemis is on a ‘maiden’ voyage of a different kind, as she set sail yesterday with P&O Cruises first female Captain, Sarah Breton, at the helm
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Hundreds of nautical miles out at sea, lisa Hatful experiences, first hand. A personal and beautiful romantic wedding ceremony conducted by the ships Caprtain.
The first leg of UK launch celebrations for new ship Celebrity Eclipse have been cancelled so the ship can help rescue holidaymakers stranded in the volcanic ash airspace shutdown
Celebrity Cruises is working with UK tour operators to collect more than 2,000 holidaymakers affected by the airport closures and subsequent flight cancellations.
The 2,852-passenger vessel is due to arrive in Southampton as scheduled this morning (Tuesday) and will depart this evening to Bilbao where it is set to arrive in the early hours of Thursday.
If there is one thing I love about stepping onboard a P&O Cruise its the welcoming smile and Hello of the crew onboard.
How many familiar faces can you spot in this happy film of the crew of the new P&O Cruises Azura?
Makes you want to step onboard, doesn't it?
Following on from the nostalgia of Traditional Cruising that has surrounded the brand new Azura, I thought it was time to look at some of my old film footage again. This one shows my Mum cruising back in 1958, on the old old Arcadia (second one of four) Mum recalls having a suite for 23 Guinea's. I think that translates to £23 and 23 shillings?!! I too went onto cruise onboard this Arcadia in the 1960's and 1970's. My last time onboard was in May 1975 on a short cruise to Amsterdam where we visited the Dutch Bulb fields.
Prima ballerina Darcey Bussell CBE has named Azura, the latest P&O Cruises ship built exclusively for Britain. The spectacular celebrity naming ceremony, with Darcey Bussell as the ship's Godmother, took place on Saturday April 10, prior to Azura’s maiden cruise to the Mediterranean.