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RHAPSODY OF THE SEAS

SeaDream Yacht Club hasadded new countries to itsitineraries – includingScandinavia and Russia – aswell as new ports in Europeplus a maiden call inLondon. THE TOP-RATING BOUTIQUE CRUISE LINE, SEADREAM,will sail one mega yacht in Northern Europein 2011 visiting Scandinavia, the Baltic andthe Atlantic coasts of France, Spain andPortugal. Among the season’s highlights will be theline’s first-ever call on London; sceniccruising in the Norwegian fjords; daylightsailing through the Stockholm Archipelago;a transit of the Kiel Canal; three daysdocked at St Petersburg; and calls onCopenhagen, Brittany, Oslo, Helsinki, theBordeaux wine region and the JerseyIslands. Prior to these voyages, in April 2011 the

SeaDream expands destinations112-passenger SeaDream I will make a 15-day Atlantic Crossing from her seasonal stintin the Caribbean and then, instead ofreturning to the Mediterranean as inprevious years, will sail to the UK and up theRiver Thames to dock at London’s TowerBridge.

“Australians already make up 9% ofour clientele, which is quiteextraordinary considering yourremoteness.” President of SeaDream Yacht Club, BobLepisto said the new itineraries should proveideal for people looking for new opportunitiesin unusual ports. “I know our Australian guests willparticularly like these new experiences andwhat they bring with them,” Lepisto told CW. “Australians already make up over 9% ofour clientele, which is quite extraordinaryconsidering your remoteness from ourdestinations.” Lepisto said SeaDream was popular withAustralians because the boutique vesselshad a relaxed atmosphere compared toother luxury lines. “Your casual lifestyle reflects yourappreciation of our unique product thateschews formality and is based on a five-starCountry Club smart casual ambience,” hesaid. Full details of itineraries and prices for thenew sailings are expected to be available bythis weekend.

Athena’s Down Under FOLLOWING HER HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL DEBUT INWA and SA last year, Classic InternationalCruises Athena is set to return on 18 December,for the Australian 2009/10 summer season. During her stay Athena will embark upona total of 16 voyages, involving 27 port callsaround Australia and 32 international portstops throughout Asia and Europe. Highlights of the season will include thefirst-ever round trip cruise to Tasmania fromAdelaide in January and a special romancethemed Valentine’s Day voyage to theMargaret River vineyards in February.

Free passage to Tasmania FROM NOW UNTIL 28 NOVEMBER, TASMANIAN

ferry service, the Spirit of Tasmania isoffering a buy-one-get-one-free deal onDay Tickets and Ocean Recliner tickets, fortravel between 23 January-21 March. Day Tickets are priced from $95 and areonly available for weekday day sailings anddo not include seat allocation, whilst OceanView Recliner tickets start at $110 and arealso only available on weekday day sailingsbut do however include an ocean viewrecliner allocation. Visit www.spiritoftasmania.com.au.

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ITITITITIT really is a great time to get a taste ofluxury cruising at prices we’ve never seenbefore – or to experience a superior shipsailing new itineraries in Australianwaters. For example, in March next year, theQueen Mary 2 is embarking on its first-ever Australian coastal voyage. Departing from Sydney on 8 March2010, the six-night voyage features theQM2’s maiden calls to Adelaide andFremantle, which would be a reallyexciting time to be onboard as an Aussie. Prices start at $2199pp and cabins arestill available. Talking to ecruising.travel’s businessdevelopment manager Richard Davey, Irealised just what a significant opportunityit is! He pointed out that Australians used tohave to pay about $10,000 for aminimum three-week cruise on the QM2,but now you can have a shorter samplefor a quarter of the cost. As Richard said, “You can get greatvalue and luxury at the same time -whereas before now, value and luxurywere usually mutually exclusive terms!” US cruise lines are also a great bargainwith their fares priced in US dollars, andthe Australian dollar sitting at around 93US cents today. I was talking this week to people fromSeaDream and Silversea Cruises whoboth reported that 2009 has been thebiggest year of bookings from Australians. Karen Christensen, Silversea regionaldirector Australia, said bookings havebeen so strong that they have decided tointroduce ‘Circumnavigation Voyage ofAustralia’ aboard Silver Shadow inJanuary to February 2011. The 30-day cruise will take in smallerports including Willis Island, Cooktown,Broome, Exmouth, Albany, Port Lincoln,Kangaroo Island and Geelong, as well asstate capitals Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart,Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth and Darwin. “The cruise will go on sale in the nextcouple of weeks and those interested injoining the voyage will need to makeadvance registrations with their travelagents to ensure the best suites,”Christensen told Cruise Weekly. You heard it here first!

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Local luxury for the budget buyer!Never before has there beena better time to book a luxurycruise, with huge discountsand shorter segments inAustralia now offered byhigh-end cruise lines. SILVERSEA’S SILVER WHISPER AND NORTH STAR

Cruises’ True North have releasedunprecedented offers that make their cruisesmore affordable for Australians. A short six-night segment is now availableon Silver Whisper departing Cairns on 13December for an east coast cruise to Sydneyvia Townsville, Hamilton Island andBrisbane. Ecruising.travel has priced the package,including luxury suite accommodation, shoreexcursions and complimentary wine andspirits, from $2849pp. Brett Dudley, founder and chairman ofecruising.travel, told CW CW CW CW CW that it was a “goodtime to snap up anything luxury”. “With the global financial crisis, peoplehave been conservative in their spendingand yet there are a lot more cruises in theregion so luxury lines, who very rarelydiscount, have got huge discounts this yearand next year,” he said. Mr Dudley’s top pick is North Star Cruises’36-passenger True North, which has “acouple of crackers” in December andJanuary. “The eight-night Southern Safari,roundtrip from Adelaide, is 50% off, whichthey don’t normally do, and there’s a greatSydney cruise over Christmas that is 20%off,” he said. EseaCruising.com has also launched anexclusive sale on Princess Cruises. “Passengers receive a little bit of Princess

treatment for a heavily reduced price [perperson, twin-share] of $219 for inside cabin,$265 for outside cabin and $375 forbalcony cabin,” said founder Elisa Chan. The two-night sample cruise from Sydneyto Brisbane departs 14 April 2010 orMelbourne to Sydney on 4 March 2010.

Port Everglades’ viewsits newest Oasis ROYAL CARIBBEAN’S NEWEST VESSEL, OASIS OF THE

Seas made her highly anticipated US debutlast week, as she sailed into her home-port ofPort Everglades in Florida’s Fort Lauderdale,much to the delight of the hundreds of eageronlookers who crammed on-site to catch aglimpse. Weighing in at 225,000 tonnes Oasis ofthe Seas is almost three times the size of anyvessel currently based in Australian waters! New ‘industry first’ features onboard Oasisinclude ‘Central Park’ the first living park atsea with over 12,000 plants and trees andthe ‘Boardwalk’- a family orientedenvironment with its own hand carvedcarousel. Keep an eye out in Cruise Weekly forexclusive coverage from onboard the world’sbiggest passenger cruise ship.

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Written by Roderick Eime, Editor ofCruise Passenger Adventure Guide.

RRRRReadeadeadeadeadyyyyy, on your Mar, on your Mar, on your Mar, on your Mar, on your Marquesas, go!quesas, go!quesas, go!quesas, go!quesas, go!Location: Port of Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas, French Polynesia, 9 deg 48.33 W, 139 deg01.86 W. If there ever was a perfect outpost as sanctuary for troubled artists, refuge for waywardseamen and magnet for restless adventurers, then the far flung islands of the Marquesaswould have to be it. Sure, you can catch one of the easy flights from Tahiti and bum around, but for anauthentic arrival, come as Cook, Porter and Melville did; aboard ship. Unless your name is Packer, whose private ship is moored in Tahiti as you read this, youcould not conduct a more thorough exploration of this dramatic, geologically youthfularchipelago than with the Compagnie Polynesienne de Transport Maritime (CPTM) sailingyear round with Aranui 3. For the trivia-minded, this the locationfavoured by the disturbed French master,Paul Gauguin, and publicity-exhaustedBelgian pop idol, Jacques Brel. Both, despite contrasting, if short,relations with the locals, also chose to beburied here. As with all true adventure cruises, this isa voyage of discovery and learning. Each island port reveals a little more ofthis fascinating culture and its catastrophic demise. Although modern Marquesans enjoy comforts provided by their French colonialoverlords, the 8000 ‘survivors’ are the tail end of a prominent civilisation that numberedaround 100,000 until the beginning of the 19th Century. Although freedom to practice (most) ancient arts and customs is restored, white manhas a lot to answer for in the Marquesas. The Aranui 3 is the CPTM’s fifth vessel to ply this route, an exclusive freight/passengeroperation that has grown from humble beginnings over 50 years. This newest vessel was built to a German design in Romania in 2003 and flies theFrench flag. GRT is 7000 tons and passenger capacity is 198 across four grades fromfancy suites (14) with balcony, nine deluxe staterooms, 63 standard cabins and 18 berthsin three dormitory-style rooms. Expect to spend your time mingling with worldly folks from all over. Our near-capacity complement consists of mainly Germans and French, with ascattering of Americans, Canadians, Brits and sundry EU countries. We are bankers and academics, builders and cab-drivers, flashpackers and corporaterefugees with an average age of around 60, (but under 50s should also be encouraged). The voyage is a great opportunity to exercise second language skills and swap tall taleswith seasoned travellers, friends are made easily in this eclectic human trail mix.

With any cruise like this you need personalversatility -the schedule will almost certainlybe interrupted or altered en route due to theprimary function of freight delivery. Difficult cargo and sea conditions will alsodictate time in port and shore activitiesoffered, there’s no point bleating “... but thebrochure says ...!” because it warns you that[stuff] will happen and it does. In my mind, none of this is sufficient reasonnot to go because the Marquesas are

definitely one of the few remaining corners of the world worth every effort. Book through a specialty cruise office, discounts are sometimes offered and ask lots ofquestions.

Aerial view of Aranui3 in the Marquesas

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MSC serves it up! MSC’S GROUP CATERING SUBSIDIARY, MSC

Italcatering, has earned itself twoindependent certifications, ISC 22000 forFood Safety Management and ISO 9001 forQuality Management. As part of the qualification processes, MSCunderwent alterations to its food preparationprocedures including the standardisation ofits manuals and operating instructions as wellas the input of over 3000 recipes into a centraldata system for analysis regarding potentialsafety issues, allergies and intolerances. Other changes included the HazardAnalysis and Critical Control Point training ofover 3500 crew members and thecompletion of food safety training by over70% of all MSC crew members. Both new certifications are set to stringentinternational standards, providing guests witha double guarantee of MSC’s food qualityand safety procedures. “Our goal now is to continue to meet andexceed the expectations of MSC Cruises’guests,” said MSC Italcatering’s generalmanager, Enrico Borniotto.

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A group of lucky Aussies celebratedMelbourne Cup day in one of the mostunlikeliest of locations- the middle of theAtlantic Ocean, aboard the SeaDream YachtClub’s mega motor cruiser SeaDream I. In the lead-up to the big event, the vesselseighty-one guests enjoyed some true Aussiefare including party pies and Westend Estatewinery’s chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon. SeaDream Yacht Club has said that thepoolside Cup party was such a smash-hit thatit may now make Melbourne Cupcelebrations an annual event onboard

SeaDream I and her sister ship, SeaDream II. Pictured above is SeaDream I’s Aussiecontingency (plus a kiwi) with SeaDreamcrew members, enjoying the 03 Novfestivities, from left Tomasz Koslowski,SeaDream I Executive Chef; Stelian Stefan,SeaDream I Sommelier; Malcolm Andrews,Port Macquarie, NSW; David and GwendaEllis, Bowral, NSW; Tony and Val Madigan,Dural, NSW; Keith and Ros Millerd,Gunnedah, NSW; Peter and Janelle Owen,Maroochydore, Queensland and MarkBarratt-Boyes, Auckland, NZ.

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24 individual cruises that make up its 335-day ‘Voyages of the Great Explorers’ journeyaboard Spirit of Oceanus. The voyage circumnavigates the world,starting in Singapore on 06 Mar 2010, witheach segment ranging from 9-19 nights,taking in South East Asia, North Africa, TheMediterranean, the Greek Isles, the USA,Australia and the South Pacific. The discounted fares start from $5,676pptwin share and must be booked by 18 Dec. For info see www.traveltheworld.com.au.

Blue Lagoon upgrade BLUE LAGOON CRUISES IS OFFERING A FREE ‘GOLD’CRUISE upgrade on all-four day Fiji ‘Club’cruises booked for travel before 31 Mar 2010. Prices start from $774pp twin share andare inclusive of all onboard meals, taxes,fuel surcharges and cultural experiencesincluding daily shore excursions, water-basedactivities, and glass bottom boating. For more information visitwww.bluelagooncruises.com.

Nieuw Amsterdam floats CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN ITALY,Holland America Line’s newest vessel, msNieuw Amsterdam has celebrated its‘floating out’ milestone in a traditionalceremony harking back to centuries-oldshipmaking tradition. Following in the footsteps of ancientshipbuilders, two commemorative coins weresealed in a compartment onboard to bringAmsterdam ‘good fortune’. The coins were minted to celebrate HenryHudson, who discovered New York’s Hudsonriver - an exploit which eventually led to thefirst permanent Dutch settlement in NorthAmerica, Nieuw Amsterdam. In celebration of the vessels NY connection,Amsterdam will feature NYC themed rooms,including the Manhattan dining room, and aNYC skyscraper inspired art atrium, whilstthe youth area will feature an authentic1981 NY checker cab. The Nieuw Amsterdam is scheduled fordelivery in July next year.

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try a cruise. A US man attracted worldwide attentionlast weekend after he drove his US$1million luxury car into a salt marsh. The man said he dropped his mobilephone in the vehicle and was thendistracted by “a low flying pelican”,causing him to veer his Bugatti Veyron offthe road (below). The car ended up semi-submerged inthe pond, and although the police weren’tsure if it was salvageable, in the words ofone officer, “Salt water isn’t good foranything”.

THIS DESSERT IS CERTAIN TO END UP ON THE

menu of an upmarket cruise liner. A group of young South American chefshave created an appetising newaphrodisiac treat - with the primaryingredients being passionfruit and Viagra. Spokesman Juan Sebastian Gomez fromColombia said: “We got the idea fourmonths ago when we were dealing with anutrition project for older people. “It occurred to us that we could usepassionfruit - with all its connotations -and Viagra, and we came up with thisdessert.” They said a group of elderly volunteershad helped refine the dessert using aprocess of trial and error, with theexperiment including a trial in whicheveryone who was given the specialdessert “experienced heightened libido”.

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Watch a Jewel unfold YESTERDAY MARKED THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE

dry-dock, two-week multi-million dollartransformation of P&O’s latest superlinerPacific Jewel (formally Ocean Village Two) inSingapore, and to celebrate, P&O areinviting cruise enthusiasts to watch theprocess via an online journal. Throughout the process Jewel is set to befitted out with a series of ‘signature’features, including P&O’s newest restaurantsensation, Salt Grill by Luke Mangan, achocolate cafe replete with internet accessand the new adults-only ‘Sanctuary’ area. Amongst Jewel’s many individual featureswill be an open air deck with aerial stagespecifically designed for circus and musicperformances and the largest spa at sea -measuring in at a healthy 1300 square metres. See www.pacificjewel.pocruises.com.au.

Crystal’s new shimmer CRYSTAL CRUSIES’ CRYSTAL SYMPHONY IS CURRENTLY

undergoing the final touches on its luxuriant$25 million make-over. The face lift includes stunning new SwarovskiCrystal chandeliers, sunken Philippe StarkDuravit bathtubs, trendy new pool deckfurniture, as well as beautiful Venetian worksof art and service islands. “We strive to offer a luxury vacationexperience that continues to impress anddelight our guests,” said Thomas Mazloum,Crystals Cruises’ senior vp of hotel operations. Once completed, Crystal Symphony’s newlook will also include revamped penthouses,pool areas, Lido cafe, and a remodeledPregro Italian restaurant, as well as dozensmore extravagant ‘finishing touches’including cashmere throws.

Captain Cook Hop’s CAPTAIN COOK CRUISES’ HARBOUR EXPRESS, ISpromoting its special hop on/hop off passesover this coming holiday season. Departing every 45 mins from Jetty 6 atCircular Quay, the cruise offers livecommentary and visits Circular Quay,Taronga Zoo, Watson’s Bay, Fort Denison,Shark Island, Luna Park and Darling Harbourfor just $35 (adult), $19 (child), $75 (family). Call 1800 804 843.

Carnival’s Seattle gate FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, CARNIVAL CRUISE LINE

will offer 7-night Alaskan sailings from theport of Seattle, commencing May 2010. Amongst the itineraries offered is theGlacier Bay voyage from Seattle to Vancouvervisiting around 15 active glaciers as well asJuneau, Skagway and Ketchikan Vancouveraboard Carnival Spirit from $697per person. For details call 1300 766 566.

IF YOU’RE CRUISING INTO AUCKLAND THIS HOLIDAY

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