cruiseweekly.com.au cruiseweekly.co.nz Friday 13th November 2020 Celebrity webinars Aurora deposits into trust NZ cruise impact CELEBRITY Cruises Australia/ THE latest video in AURORA Expeditions has that is part of their itinerary, or if NZ Director of Sales, Cameron Cruise Lines International unveiled comprehensive measures they are required to quarantine at Mannix, will next week host a Association’s (CLIA) to give travel advisors and their voyage destination or at any webinar for the line’s industry #WeAreCruise series highlights clients confidence to plan future stopover point en route. partners about Celebrity’s the economic impact of the voyages, including ensuring that Finally, Aurora will also provide new Always Included pricing cruising pause on Christchurch- deposits for new bookings are a refund or credit if there is no approach (CW 11 Nov). based Hassle-free tours. placed into a separate trust fund. travel insurance available that The company says it’s also The company has been The escrow account means includes coverage for COVID-19. redefining luxury, with a forced to lay off almost 60 deposits for future travel will only The measures were detailed by ‘New Luxury’ positioning that staff due to suspensions, with be used for payments related to the Aurora team during a media focuses on culinary exploration, owner Mark Gilbert describing the passenger’s expedition, with webinar yesterday which gave a holistic wellness, cultural the loss of 75% of his customer the initiative coming alongside sneak peek at the company’s new discovery and elevated design. base which normally comes what the cruise line claims is the Arctic and Global 2022 program “By debunking myths that from international cruise “ultimate in booking flexibility”. (CW 29 Sep), including voyages all-inclusive can’t be luxurious, visitors to New Zealand. Under this policy passengers aboard the new Sylvia Earle. or that large ship guests CLIA MD Joel Katz said given will be offered a full refund or a Aurora also today revealed aren’t luxe, Celebrity will NZ’s success in stemming future travel credit if, during the renders of the interiors of the break through the luxury glass COVID-19 “we see an period 30 days prior to departure, new ship - to see them CLICK HERE. ceiling, allowing travellers to opportunity for a controlled their home country does not Pre-registrations for the season become more open, more reintroduction of domestic allow or recommends against have been so strong that the curious and more fulfilled,” the cruises” - view the video HERE. international travel or cruising. program’s public release has been company said. Refunds and/or credits will deferred by almost a month to Register for the webinars by also be offered if passengers are 24 Nov, according to Aurora CEO Cruise Weekly today CLICKING HERE (Tue 17 Nov at required to travel to a COVID-19 Monique Ponfoort. 2.30pm AEDT) or HERE (Wed Cruise Weekly today hotspot location for their voyage For details of Aurora’s Book with 18 Nov at 12pm AEDT). features three pages of all the or en route at any stopover point Confidence plan CLICK HERE. latest cruise industry news. DRINKS. WI-FI. SERVICE CHARGES. Holidays should be effortless from the start. That’s why every Celebrity cruise includes drinks, Wi-Fi, and service charges—always.* It’s that simple. LEARN MORE AT THECELEBRITYCOMMITMENT.COM.AU OR CALL 1-800-754-500 *Always Included” Pricing Packages apply to sailings booked and departing on or after 17 November 2020, excluding Galapagos cruises, in an Inside through AquaClass stateroom (“Eligible Bookings”). 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CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT Friday 13th November 2020 Regent offers close-to-home sailings RCI volunteers Five now positive on REGENT Seven Seas Cruises has the recent cancellation of three ROYAL Caribbean SeaDream I highlighted its 2021/22 collection Australia and NZ sailings in early International (RCI) has received SEADREAM Yacht Club, the of voyages in Australia and New 2021. thousands of registrations first cruise line to recommence Zealand aboard Seven Seas Regent’s VP of Sales ANZ, LIsa from avid cruisers volunteering operations in the Caribbean Explorer, which will undertake Pile, said “Seven Seas Explorer to take part in its proposed (CW yesterday), has confirmed her inaugural Asia-Pacific season delivers a level of luxury never “mock” voyages which have that five people on board its next year. seen before in this region, and been mandated under the SeaDream I have now tested Billed as the “most luxurious we can’t wait to share it with Centers for Disease Control positive for COVID-19. ship ever built,” Explorer will discerning local travellers”. Framework for Conditional The Points Guy contributor offer 14 all-inclusive itineraries in Local Regent chief Steve Odell Sailing (CW 01 Nov). Gene Sloan is on board the ship, local waters between Oct 2021 showcases the program in a new After getting over 3,000 and told Travel + Leisure that the and Apr 2022, providing a new video which is now online at emails this week alone, not to diagnoses were a massive blow option for those disappointed by cruiseweekly.com.au/videos. mention tweets, comments to the industry’s efforts to restart and messages on social media, operations. Silversea now on pause until Apr 2021 the company has established “SeaDream’s return to cruising a dedicated “Volunteers of the in the Caribbean was a watershed SILVERSEA Cruises now looks be the brand new Silver Moon Seas” website and Facebook moment for the industry, and set to phase in cruising over the which is scheduled to voyage page to allow people to many were hoping it would go upcoming Northern Summer, from Barcelona to Athens on 01 express interest. smoothly,” he said. with the company’s website Apr, followed by Silver Spirit on The new ‘RCIbackatsea’ Initially a single passenger indicating no resumption of 20 Apr, Silver Shadow on 28 Apr, Facebook group has so far returned a positive test after cruising until Apr 2021 apart Silver Cloud on 05 May, Silver garnered more than 16,000 feeling unwell, but it’s now from the Galapagos return of Muse on 20 May, Silver Wind on members, promising to “serve understood more comprehensive Silver Origin in early Feb. 14 Jun, Silver Whisper on 20 Jun the community of adventurers testing has uncovered the The first classic Silversea ship and finally Silver Explorer in the who are excited and ready to additional cases as the ship’s to recommence service will Kimberley on 24 Jun. be the first back at sea”. itinerary has been cut short. 2021-2022 AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & SOUTH PACIFIC NOW ON SALE FIND OUT MORE Cruise Weekly AU t 1300 799 220 w cruiseweekly.com.au NZ t 0800 799 220 w cruiseweekly.co.nz page 2 Need a distraction amid the doom and gloom? Check out our daily puzzle page. Friday 13th November 2020 MSC 2023 World Coral Kimberley expansion Cruise on sale CORAL Expeditions has unveiled of Coral operations in Qld PORTHOLE MSC Cruises has opened a comprehensive 2021 Kimberley last month (CW 16 Oct), with sales for its 2023 World Cruise, cruising program, with the Commercial Director Jeff Gillies which will see MSC Poesia company operating three vessels saying “we are pleased at the voyage from Genoa in Italy on and more than 40 departures outstanding guest response we YESTERDAY we featured a 30,000 nautical mile journey over the season. have received over the past four a story about a pirate ship in over 119 days. Coral Discoverer and Coral weeks since we recommenced someone’s front yard, so we The Pacific leg of her cruise Adventurer will be joined by our operations on Qld’s Great couldn’t resist a follow-up will see the ship visit Fiji, the new Coral Geographer in Barrier Reef. about a true-life vessel which Auckland, Sydney, the Gold her debut season, with all three “We are proud to have forged was previously owned by the Coast and Cairns, while the vessels Australian-flagged and a way back and the wonderful one and only Johnny Depp, the trip will also take in the crewed and each carrying fewer feedback from our guests movie star who has been so Caribbean, a Panama Canal than 100 guests. reinforces our feeling that there much in the news lately. transit, Central America, Asia, The Mar-Oct 2021 season will is no better sanctuary than our Apparently not a pirate ship the Middle East and then see the ships operating 10-night expansive Australian coast.” despite his starring role in the return to the Mediterranean expeditions ex Darwin and To make bookings easier, Coral Pirates of the Caribbean series, Broome, with the comprehensive Expeditions has launched an Depp’s seagoing investment via the Suez Canal. was surprisingly not brought The itinerary is the same as program being Coral Expeditions’ online ‘Kimberley Stateroom up during his high profile the previously planned MSC biggest ever Kimberley season in Finder’ tool, and the company defamation lawsuit against 2021 World Cruise which was its 25-year history. has also released its 2022 London tabloid newspapers.