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Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth will return to Australia for her fourth and longest season from November 2021 to March 2022.

Helen Hutcheon, Australasia correspondent

December 19, 2019

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The 124-day consecutive season in Australia includes a Cunard signature Christmas voyage and an inaugural roundtrip from Sydney to Fiji and South Pacific islands.

Another Royal Rendezvous

The season finishes with a Royal Rendezvous with Queen Victoria on Sydney Harbour on March 2, 2022.

Cunard Australia’s Commercial Director Katrina McAlpine said she is excited to welcome Queen Elizabeth back for yet another record deployment Down Under with new voyages around Australia, Fiji and the South Pacific.

Third largest market

‘The return of Queen Elizabeth, one of the world’s most famous ships, for a record 124 days is testament to Australia’s growing importance to Cunard as the line’s third largest international source market,’ McAlpine said.

10 New Zealand ports

‘Queen Elizabeth is going to 11 different Australian destinations, making a total of 30 calls to those ports. She is also making 27 calls across 10 New Zealand ports, injecting upwards of A$34m into the Australian and New Zealand economies combined.’

Queen Elizabeth’s fourth homeport season Down Under includes maiden calls at Lautoka and Suva in Fiji and Eden on the New South Wales coast.

At the end of the Australian season, Queen Elizabeth will travel north to Japan via Southeast Asia, including calls at Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong and mainland China.

About the Author

Helen Hutcheon

Australasia correspondent

Helen Hutcheon did her cadetship on a shipping magazine and worked in P&O’s Sydney office for seven years as a public relations journalist.

For 19 years she was deputy editor of Travel Week, which was Australia’s leading trade newspaper that covered major local and international industry events.

In 2008 the late legendary Rama Rebbapragada presented her with an award from Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd ‘in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the cruising industry.’

In 2010 she won the Neil Frazer Award for ‘outstanding contribution to the cruise industry,’ elevating her to CLIA Australasia’s hall of fame.

She has been the Australasia correspondent for Seatrade Cruise Review since 1997 and for Seatrade Insider (now Seatrade Cruise News) since its launch in 2000.

 

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