Monthly Archives: August 2012

Get ready to book for Cunard 2014 From Wednesday next week, Cunard is about to open its doors for 2014 bookings on its prestigious cruise liners – Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria and Queen Mary 2. Although famous for their around-the-globe cruises, Cunard is giving Kiwi travellers a chance to sail a little closer to home, […]

On Safari in Alaska Wilderness adventure cruise company, Innersea Discoveries and American Safari Cruises are set to add a unique new ship and itinerary to their programme. The replica Victorian 88-guest steamer, Safari Legacy, offers a Heritage Adventures programme in Alaska, Oregon and Washington but this time with a completely different style of cruising from […]

Pandaw does it differently Luxury Asian-river cruise specialist Pandaw Cruises is about to up its cruising options on the Irrawaddy and Chindwin rivers from July 2013. They are moving one of their trade-mark colonial river steamers into the rivers of Myanmar, where they already have three ships.

Queen of Mississippi cruises the old-fashioned way Experience the old-fashioned taste of cruising on the Mississippi in an authentic paddle wheeler with American Cruise Lines’ Queen of the Mississippi. Last week, the authentic 150-passenger paddle wheeler, Queen of the Mississippi, set off on its first sold-out eight-day roundtrip to New Orleans, bringing back memories of […]

Queen Mary 2 laps Australia When QM2 circumnavigated Australia earlier this year, it was such a success that they are going to do it all over again in 2014. This time, passengers will have the choice of embarking from four different ports, Sydney, Melbourne, Fremantle or Brisbane.