Tagged: P&O Cruises

Twenty-one years after launching, P&O Cruises’ 1,800-passenger Oriana cruise ship will undergo a three-week refurbishment at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg at the end of November. (cruisecritic.com)

P&O Cruises has rolled out new W-iFi packages. P&O Cruises senior vice president, Paul Ludlow, said: “People are used to accessing anything at a touch of a button or swipe of a screen 24/7 and this doesn’t change just because they are on holiday.” (cruiseindustrynews.com)

P&O Cruises, the UK focused contemporary market unit in the Carnival Corporation & plc group, said it has raised more than £50,000 for Teenage Cancer Trust since the beginning of 2016. (cruisebusiness.com)

Chalk Stream Foods sources, prepares and delivers the finest, freshest rainbow trout from farms on the River Itchen and the River Test directly to restaurants across the UK. (more…)

“Strictly Come Dancing” is back on board P&O Cruises in 2017 for more dazzling performances across the Med and Baltic from some of your favourite professional dancers and the outspoken judges everyone loves to hate. (more…)

The Daily Mail is reporting that a passenger was kicked off a cruise ship earlier this week after flicking a cigarette butt off of the side of the ship. (cruisefever.net)

Thousands of gin lovers will be celebrating World Gin Day tomorrow (Saturday June 13), and toasting this quintessentially British drink on board Britain’s biggest cruise ship Britannia. (more…)

P&O Cruises is celebrating all things British for English Wine Week (May 28 – June 5). The holiday giant has introduced two English wines from Chapel Down, Kent and will be showcasing its superb selection of award-winning British still and sparkling wines throughout the week on board its ships. (more…)

The Oceana cruise ship, which is the fifth largest of eight ships currently in service with P&O Cruises, scored 82 out of 100 in an inspection carried out while it was docked in the USA in January. (dailymail.co.uk)

P&O Cruises’ Oceana failed a recent U.S. health inspection, while its sister ship, Oriana, passed. (cruisecritic.com)

Seychelles’ Port of Victoria made history on Monday when the MS Aurora became the longest cruise ship to berth there. (seychellesnewsagency.com)

P&O Cruises’ flagship Britannia will return to Southampton this Friday (March 25th) — just over a year after the ship was named at the UK port by HM The Queen.

P&O Cruises, the UK focused contemporary market unit in the Carnival Corporation& plc group, has published its 2017-18 programme, which includes basing the 77,441 gross ton Oceana at Malta. (cruisebusiness.com)

Opening for sale on April 4, 2016, the itineraries will offer more destinations plus more departures out of Southampton that any other cruise line, year-round. (cruisecritic.com)

The UK’s top TV dancing competition will set sail onboard P&O Cruises, according to a statement. Strictly Come Dancing themed holidays are launching on select sailings for 2016. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

P&O Cruises is the only cruise company to sail in to the 2015 top five YouGov BrandIndex Buzz ranking for travel agents, hotels and guides. (more…)

Leading British chocolatier Paul A Young will be sailing on P&O Cruises Ventura in February 2016 on the short cruise to Amsterdam and Bruges departing on February 15. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

P&O Cruises has added nine new “Food Heroes” sailings to its 2016 programme, bringing the total number of culinary-themed cruises to 24. (cruisecritic.com)

P&O Cruises has announced that it will sail the Britannia from St Lucia as part of an extended Caribbean fly-cruise program for 2016/17. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

P&O Cruises has joined forces with Jonathan Wilkes and Wilkes Academy in order to give opportunities and work experience on board ships to young performers. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

Lifeboats from Bembridge and Yarmouth are helping in a massive air and sea search 20 miles south of the Island for a cruise liner passenger who is thought to have gone overboard early this morning (Saturday). (iwcp.co.uk)

The man is understood to have fallen into the water from P&O cruise ship Ventura as it returned to Southampton from a two-week trip to the Mediterranean. (itv.com)

P&O Cruises is celebrating after successfully raising an incredible £1million for charity partner Macmillan Cancer Support. Staff from the Southampton based company marked the fantastic fundraising milestone alongside celebrity chef and P&O Cruises Food Hero Eric Lanlard on board new ship Britannia.

P&O Cruises is partnering with Teenage Cancer Trust for the next three years to raise funds for the charity and awareness of the valuable work it does helping teenagers and young adults with cancer across the UK.

P&O Cruises has launched its 2017 World Cruise Collection featuring two full world circumnavigations offering a choice of east or west.

Ludlow, 36, who joins from Princess Cruises where he was managing director UK & Europe, will have full responsibility for the sales, sales support, marketing, guest insight and digital teams across the brand. (more…)