Tagged: P&O Cruises Australia

P&O Cruises Australia has answered a plea for help from a group of young Australian Rotary volunteers, stranded in Vanuatu following the collapse of Air Vanuatu. (more…)

P&O Cruises Australia’s Pacific Encounter has arrived in Vanuatu with a special delivery for the Vanuatu Paralympic Committee. (more…)

P&O Cruises Australia has introduced its new brand platform, “Brings Us All Together”, appealing to those seeking genuine connections on their next holiday experience. (more…)

An Australian company at the centre of a “nightmare” cruise where passengers were forced to tour Tasmania instead of New Zealand has been hit by further accusations. (more…)

Some 2000 cruise passengers are feeling short-changed after a last-minute itinerary alteration swapped Stewart Island for Timaru. (more…)

Australia’s most popular cruise line, P&O Cruises, announced summer season sailing will be on its itinerary for Western Australia in 2025 as it celebrates 90 years of cruising Australia. (more…)

Passengers on board a P&O cruise ship were evacuated from their cabins after a fire was detected on a balcony at 3.30 a.m., news.com.au reported. (more…)

P&O Cruises Australia’s Brisbane-ported ship, Pacific Encounter, has today become the first in the brand’s fleet to call into Darwin since the resumption of cruising. (more…)

The arrival of Pacific Explorer on October 25 marked the first large cruise ship to visit Hobart in over two years. (more…)

The new Pacific Adventure was officially debuting for P&O Cruises Australia last Saturday. Third and final vessel to join the brand’s fleet, the newly transformed cruise ship is kicking off a year-round program of cruises from Sydney. (more…)

P&O Cruises Australia’s Pacific Encounter arrives in new home town Brisbane as Queenslanders ‘claim’ the ship for the sunshine state. (more…)

P&O’s flagship “Pacific Explorer” has already achieved several milestones as the first cruise ship to return to Sydney on April 18, the first cruise ship back to Brisbane and, more recently, the first to return to New Zealand and Fiji. (more…)

The Pacific Explorer with almost 3,000 people on board now has some passengers locked in their cabins. The exact number of infections is not being revealed by authorities but involves well over 80 cases. (more…)

P&O Cruises Australia is celebrating its return to the high seas by counting down to its first dazzling ‘Pride Cruise’ – a celebratory weekend at sea created especially for members of the LGBTQIA+ community, their friends, family and supporters. (more…)

P&O Cruises Australia has flagged a return to cruising at the end of May, with the launch of a new 2022 program of sailings from Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne. (more…)

As optimism grows for the return of cruising, P&O Cruises Australia and celebrated production company Grayboy Entertainment are also planning for the return of onboard entertainment. (more…)

In the absence of an agreed restart plan for cruising in New Zealand, P&O Cruises Australia today announced the cancellation of its 2022 Auckland cruise season. (more…)

In the absence of progress towards an agreed restart plan for cruising, P&O Cruises Australia today (27 Jan.) announced a new series of cruise cancellations in its rolling pause in operations that has been in place since cruising in Australia was suspended in March 2020. (more…)

Expressing profound disappointment for guests and concern at no agreed restart plan for cruising, P&O Cruises Australia has today extended its pause until mid-April 2022, marking a full two years suspension of its operations. (more…)

Despite tentative signs of a restart to cruising in Australia, P&O Cruises Australia has had to make the difficult decision to further extend its pause in operations to 3 March, 2022 amid continued uncertainty over when governments will allow the cruise industry to resume. (more…)

With ongoing uncertainty around the resumption of cruising in Australia and the region, P&O Cruises Australia has today cancelled its 2022 homeporting seasons for Adelaide, Fremantle and Cairns. (more…)

P&O Cruises Australia today (Sep. 21) extended its pause in operations for cruises departing from Sydney and Brisbane by a further month until mid January next year to give guests greater confidence in planning their Christmas and New Year holidays because of the uncertainty around the return of cruising. (more…)

P&O Cruises Australia, which has been sailing from Australia for nearly 90 years as the nation’s home-grown cruise line, today (27/08/2021) announced its plan to re-start operations with voyages for vaccinated guests and crew. (more…)

In line with the periodic review of its temporary pause in operations, P&O Cruises Australia today (May 4, 2021) announced a six-week extension to the pause to 17 September, 2021. (more…)