Tagged: P&O Cruises Australia

P&O Cruises’ flagship Pacific Explorer has returned to her Sydney home on March 16 sporting new features and attractions following a stunning makeover. Popular dining outlets, Luke’s and 400 Gradi, have been given a striking new look during Pacific Explorer’s recent dry dock. (more…)

Passengers holding Chinese passports aboard Pacific Explorer were forced to debark the ship in Cairns following Singapore’s decision to ban all travellers holding Chinese passports from entering the country. It is believed a total of 81 people were transported by buses waiting at Cairns cruise terminal to other accommodation. (cruisecritic.com)

A record number of families will sail with P&O Cruises when Pacific Adventure joins the fleet next year with exciting attractions including Adventure’s dual-racing waterslide — the ‘Twin Racer’ — and a pool that is an integral part of a new family-dedicated entertainment area. (more…)

P&O Cruises Australia has announced that the Pacific Dawn and Pacific Aria will leave the fleet in 2021 as the Pacific Encounter will join the company; the ship is currently sailing as the Star Princess. (more…)

It has taken more than 10 years sailing in and sailing out again but P&O Cruises Captain Salvatore Lupo has recorded an astounding 500 transits of Brisbane taking thousands of Queenslanders on cruise holidays. (more…)

P&O Cruises’ newest ship to call Australia home will feature the first-of-its-kind dual racing waterslides where family and friends can challenge each other to score the fastest time. (more…)

P&O Cruises and Gold Coast singing star Ricki-Lee have remastered a classic state anthem, ‘Love You Queensland’, 30 years after its first release, which from today becomes the theme song each time the cruise line sails from Brisbane. (more…)

Marking World Maritime Day, P&O Cruises today saluted international seafarers including the cruise line’s public face of the celebration, Pacific Explorer Second Officer Amy Templeton. (more…)

Eden residents Colin and Jenny Hunter had an excellent reason for cruising to their hometown on board Pacific Explorer as the P&O Cruises’ flagship became the first cruise ship to use the port’s $44 million wharf extension. (more…)

It is 50 years since P&O first sailed to the Melbourne Cup and a half century on the cruise line is doing it in style with Australian model and media personality Fiona Falkiner leading the ‘Fashion at Sea’ glamour on flagship Pacific Explorer. (more…)

In a case of one was never going to be enough, P&O Cruises today announced there will be two ‘Tribute to the King’ cruises in 2020 for diehard rock and roll fans sailing from both Sydney and Brisbane. (more…)

Country music fever is hitting the high seas with three of Australia’s latest and greatest country music stars confirmed to headline P&O Cruises’ first country music themed cruise departing Brisbane this December. (more…)

P&O Cruises Australia announced its sixth consecutive year of calling Adelaide home with Pacific Aria to lead the cruise line’s longest ever cruise season in the just released 2021 program. (more…)

After an amazing 16 years carrying passengers from Brisbane, P&O Cruises Australia is on the threshold of carrying two million guests from the Queensland capital with the biggest ever new program of itineraries on sale from today (June 27). (more…)

P&O Cruises’ Pacific Explorer arrived in Hobart this morning with more than 2000 passengers and crew who will be visiting Tasmania’s Dark Mofo festival. The cruise brings the single largest group of interstate visitors to the state’s iconic winter event and is expected to inject around $750,000 into the local economy. (more…)