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Greatly reduced post-Kimberley cruise accommodation

Australia’s Aurora Expeditions has a special accommodation deal in Broome for passengers booking a deluxe or upper deck stateroom cabin in an 11-day 2017 Kimberley Coast cruise by January 31.

Helen Hutcheon, Australasia correspondent

November 10, 2016

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It is offering four nights at the multi-award winning Ramada Eco Beach Resort on the waterfront of the Indian Ocean, 130km south of Broome, for A$200 per person twin-share.

Designed to give passengers an opportunity to enjoy more of the Kimberley region, this post-cruise offer includes daily breakfasts and transfers.

Aurora, founded in 1991 and named after Sir Douglas Mawson’s ship, has again chartered Coral Expeditions’ 35mtr catamaran Coral Expeditions 1 for its 11-day 2017 cruises between Broome and Darwin.The remote Kimberley coastline in Australia’s north west is one of the ‘hot’ destinations for 2017, where highlights include saltwater crocodiles and ancient original rock paintings and the powerful Horizontal Waterfalls in Talbot Bay in the Buccaneer Archipelago.

They are created when the tide builds up faster than it can go through a narrow gap between two ridges.The waterfall phenomena has been described by David Attenborough as ‘one of the greatest natural wonders of the world.’Aurora’s first 2017 Kimberley Coast cruise departs Darwin for Broome on June 2.

 

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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