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Paul Gauguin to cruise from Brisbane after drydock

The Tahiti-based 332-passenger Paul Gauguin will be at the Forgacs drydock in Brisbane from January 15 until January 25 next year for a water treatment upgrade to meet environmental requirements.

Helen Hutcheon, Australasia correspondent

March 30, 2011

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The 19,200gt boutique liner that was purpose-built for cruising French Polynesia and is operated by Richard Bailey’s Pacific Beachcomber will leave Brisbane on January 26 on a repositioning cruise to Papeete via Noumea, Suva, Savusavu, Vava’u, Aitutaki, Taha’a, Bora Bora and Moorea.

She arrives in Papeete on the evening of February 10 and passengers disembark the following morning.

Paul Gauguin Cruises has packaged the cruise for the American market with a three-night stay in Sydney at the Four Seasons Hotel with daily breakfasts and air travel from Sydney to join the ship in Brisbane.

Fares for the ‘South Pacific Discovery’ tour are from US$7,497 and include free air travel from Los Angeles.

Past passengers who book by May 31 receive double Paul Gauguin Society savings.

Cruise-only fares are available.



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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