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The Port of Dover has completed a £6 million plus upgrade to mooring facilities on its two dedicated cruise berths, which will enable some of the largest cruise ships in the world to visit the Kent port in the years to come. (more…)
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Dover Cruise will welcome Viking’s newest ocean ship, the Viking Vela for the first visit of its 2025 cruise season on Tuesday 25th March. She will be one of eight inaugural calls this year, with Ponant’s Le Bellot following on 5th May. (more…)
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Dover Cruise’s action-packed 2025 season begins next month, with eight inaugural calls and seven cruise lines choosing the Port as their UK embarkation hub for adventures that bring together some of the world’s greatest landscapes. (more…)
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The SEA Award, led by the Port of Dover, has been awarded to NYK’s Asuka II, with Seabourn Ovation and Viking Venus also scoring highly. (more…)
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AIDALuna kick-started and closed another successful year for Port of Dover Cruise, leaving earlier this month for Spain, before spending the winter in the Caribbean. (more…)
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The 2024 Dover Cruise season continues into autumn, as the Port welcomed Oceania Cruises’ luxurious small ship Sirena® for the first time this week. She left Dover on Tuesday evening after guests spent the day exploring the Garden of England. (more…)
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Dover Cruise has said goodbye to Carnival Legend for this year, as she sailed away from her UK homeport on 18th August after seven turnaround calls throughout the summer. (more…)
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Crystal Symphony, which was refurbished last year, sailed into Dover last 30th July, for her debut call at the Port, and Crystal’s first visit of 2024. (more…)
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Last weekend saw Spirit of Discovery return to Dover for the first time in 2024, joining her sister Spirit of Adventure in operating their summer season of 20 cruises departing from the Port. (more…)
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Compagnie Française de Croisières (CFC) Renaissance, Seabourn Venture and TUI Mein Schiff 4 all sailed into Dover over the past week for inaugural port of call visits. (more…)
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Together with the Port of Dover, Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is offering free car parking to those who book a 2024 cruise departing from Dover from June through to August. (more…)
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Port of Dover has won a third certification through the EcoPorts’ environmental management standard (PERS). (more…)
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The 2024 cruise season at the Port of Dover officially begins next month, with four consecutive weekly port of call visits from AIDA Cruises. (more…)
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Kicking off 2024 as Cruise Critic’s Best UK Departure Port, Dover is ready for an exciting year ahead. (more…)
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Port of Dover’s Sonia Limbrick is pleased to have taken up her new role of head of business development for cruise, allowing her to transition to a reduced work schedule as she paves her way towards retirement. (more…)
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Holland America Line has celebrated the Nieuw Statendam’s inaugural visit to the Port of Dover. (more…)
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The Port welcomed a milestone cruise call this week, with the Coral Princess arriving in Dover for the first time ever before setting sail to New York for a 55 night around-the-world cruise, part of a 107-day round trip world cruise from Auckland. (more…)
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Dover Cruise has said Farewell for now to Hurtigruten’s Maud until 2024, after an incredible run of expeditions between the iconic White Cliffs and Norwegian fjords over the 2022/2023 winter season. (more…)
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Cruise and Passenger Services (CPS) has extended its valet parking contract with the Port of Dover for a further two years. (more…)
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With brand-new waterfront facilities, including a stunning marina due to open soon, exciting plans for future expansion of the cruise terminals, plus a sustainable operation that’s leading the way in the industry, Dover’s proud history dating back 400 years has a new modern twist. (more…)
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Princess Cruises’ Island Princess arrived for the first time at the Port of Dover last week, months after the ship helped to bring the port’s stand from Seatrade Cruise Global, Miami back to the UK to be recycled into furniture for schools. (more…)
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Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines will return to Dover this month, offering a selection of late summer cruises to destinations including Norway, France, Spain and the Adriatic. (more…)
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With 130 calls planned in 2022, Dover is set to receive more cruise ships than in any previous year. Of those, 73 are turnarounds and 11 are inaugurals. (more…)
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Silhouette is the second passenger call into the Port since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020. Celebrity Silhouette’s arrival (4th July 2021) followed TUI’s Marella Explorer which sailed in on 26th June, commemorating the eagerly anticipated return of cruise in Kent. (more…)
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With Saga’s first ever brand new cruise ship – the Spirit of Discovery being welcomed into her homeport for the first time with a royal christening, and a poignant remembrance event with Fred Olsen for 300 D-Day veterans, 2019 was already set to be a year in history for Port of Dover Cruise. (more…)
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SAGA’s new Spirit of Discovery cruise ship has sailed into Dover, with the naming ceremony to be conducted by the Duchess of Cornwall. The royal will perform the ceremony on July 5 – the first naming event to be done in Dover in over a decade. (thesun.co.uk)
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Saga is delighted to announce HRH The Duchess of Cornwall as the Godmother of its newly built boutique cruise ship, Spirit of Discovery. The naming ceremony will take place in Dover, Kent, on 5 July 2019. (more…)
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Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines commenced its 2019/20 cruise season from Dover on 13th February 2019, with a romantic four-night ‘Valentine’s in Antwerp with Amsterdam’ getaway, aboard 880-guest Boudicca. (more…)
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Saga has today announced that the official naming ceremony of Saga Cruises’ first new-build ship Spirit of Discovery will be held at the Port of Dover on July 5, 2019 – the first ship to be named at Dover following the £250m redevelopment of Dover Western Docks. (more…)
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In June Dover Cruise hosted 11 calls including a double call when Saga Sapphire and Saga Pearl II berthed together early in the month. Port of Dover head of cruise, Sonia Limbrick, said: “June has been another successful month at Dover Cruise and I would like to thank all of the cruiselines that visited us this month for their continued support.” (more…)
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The first bank holiday weekend saw the historic Western Docks at full capacity for the first time since 2016 with three cruise ships berthed together. (more…)
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On July 25 Dover Cruise Port bade farewell to Disney Cruise Line’s Disney Magic for the final call of the 2016 season. (more…)
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In its drive to bring more ships to the UK and to showcase Kent and Dover as a top-cruise destination, the Port of Dover has appointed Sonia Limbrick as head of business development (marine).
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