Largest ever world voyage programme meets with record level of demand

World voyage expert P&O Cruises is offering its largest ever programme for 2011. The four voyages went on sale on 1 July and more bookings were made in this one day than on any other world voyage launch day in P&O cruises history.

1,374 passengers made a booking and more than 1,000 of these were for the full world voyages. The 2010 programme made 1,123 on the comparative first day of sales in September 2008, of which around 800 were for the full world voyages.

The 2011 World Voyages brochure features four ships sailing round-trip from Southampton, visiting a total of 89 different ports in 46 countries:

• Oriana: 84-night world cruises departs 23 September 2010
• Artemis: 98-night Asian Grand Voyage departs 4 January 2011
• Arcadia: 82-night world cruise departs 5 January 2011
• Aurora: 95-night south America and Pacific Grand Voyage departs 9 January 2011
 
Oriana’s departure in September is P&O Cruises first ever autumn circumnavigation. The 84-night voyage offers an alternative to the customary New Year world cruise departure and will see the vessel call at 28 ports in 19 countries including: Acapulco, Mexico; Margarita Island, Venezuela; Kahalui, Hawaii; Phu My, Vietnam; Singapore and Ko Samui, Thailand.

Artemis will embark on her port intensive Grand Voyage in January 2011 taking in 35 ports during 98 nights. This unique voyage will explore the shores of the Mediterranean, Middle East, India, Thailand, Vietnam, China and Japan, before returning via the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Seychelles, Mauritius and south Africa. 

Artemis will visit new ports such as Pusan in South Korea and Ujung Pandang and Semarang in Indonesia. This itinerary will see P&O Cruises returining to such ports as Bali, Manila and Hiroshima.  

Arcadia will make her third circumnavigation in January 2011. Heading west Arcadia will sail across the Atlantic, through the Panama Canal and out into the Pacific. During the 82-night voyage there will be calls along the coast of New Zealand and Australia, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Thailand before a transit of the Suez Canal and heading home via the Mediterranean. Highlight destinations include Port Denarau, Fiji; Auckland, New Zealand; Sydney, Australia; Bangkok and Ko Samui, Thailand; and Mumbai, India.

Aurora’s 95-night South America and Pacific Grand Voyage will also depart in January 2011, heading off across the Atlantic where 24 nights will be spent exploring the coastline of South America including two days in Buenos Aires, Argentina and an evening in both Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Valparaiso, Peru.

Aurora will then continue on to the islands of the Pacific followed by an Australasian tour and six ports in New Zealand. This voyage also offers opportunities to visit the Falkland Islands, cruise by the Amalia and PIO X glaciers, Easter Island, Tahiti, San Francisco, Acapulco, the Panama Canal, and the Caribbean. Sphere: Related Content