1,350-guest Balmoral sailed on a seven-night ‘German Cities & the Kiel Canal’ cruise, and 804-guest Black Watch departed from Liverpool on an eight-night Norway itinerary.
Balmoral will undertake 15 cruises from the Port of Tyne, Newcastle in 2018 – an increase on the 13 departures offered in 2017 – to Norway, Iceland, Spain, Portugal, Germany and the Baltic. Balmoral’s ex-Newcastle cruise season will extend from April to May, from where the ship will reposition to Edinburgh (Rosyth), before returning to Newcastle from July to October.
Black Watch will be offering a record 18 departures from Liverpool between April and November 2018, ranging from a five-night ‘Scottish Lochs, Highlands & Islands’ sailing in July, to a 26-night ‘Canada in the Fall’ adventure in September.
Clare Ward, director of product and customer service for Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines, said: ‘The appealing combination of choice and value offered by Fred. Olsen has already seen many first-time cruisers and repeat customers from Newcastle and Liverpool make the decision to sail from their convenient local port.’
At the launch of its new 2019/20 cruise programme in March 2018, Fred. Olsen confirmed that it will be offering even more ex-Newcastle itineraries in 2019/20, with a total of 16 sailings between April 2019 and March 2020, on board Balmoral.
Liverpool will also be seeing a bumper number of Fred. Olsen cruise departures in 2019/20, with a total of 22 sailings between April 2019 and March 2020 on Black Watch.
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