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Astor’s return voyage to Australia a sell-out

99% of cabins aboard Cruise & Maritime Voyages’ 620-passenger Astor were sold before she left Tilbury on her 54-night sailing to Fremantle.

Helen Hutcheon, Australasia correspondent

October 19, 2016

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Astor, under the command of Captain Emmanouil Psarrakis who has brought the 20,606gt ship to Australia for her three previous extended local summer seasons, arrives in her homeport of Fremantle on December 9.

Following the success of her 2015 voyage from London to Fremantle via the Panama Canal which sold out in nine weeks, Astor is heading for the Panama Canal again and then Mexico, French Polynesia, Auckland, Sydney, Adelaide and Kangaroo Island.

Highlights of her fourth season Down Under will be two relocation cruises from Fremantle to Adelaide, departing February 19, 2017 and Adelaide to Fremantle, departing March 9. During that time she will operate three round voyages from Adelaide.

She will depart Fremantle on March 15 on her 39-night repositioning voyage to the UK.

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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