Sponsored By

Royal Caribbean has 45 sailings in 2024-25 Down Under season

Between October 2024 and April 2025 Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas and Ovation of the Seas will make 45 sailings around Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.

Helen Hutcheon, Australasia correspondent

April 22, 2023

1 Min Read
Credit: Seatrade Cruise News

Quantum of the Seas is returning to Australia for a third season and will be based at the Brisbane International Cruise Terminal.

From there she will operate 12 seven- to eight-night cruises to Vanuatu and New Caledonia and five four- to six-night Queensland getaways for snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef and visiting Airlie Beach and Cairns.

There is also a 14-night cruise to New Zealand, sailing around Milford Sound and visiting Auckland, the Bay of Islands, Tauranga, Napier and Wellington.

Ovation returns to Sydney

Ovation of the Seas returns to Sydney where she will operate six 10- to 11-night cruises to New Zealand, as well as offering cruises to Vanuatu and New Caledonia.

Both ships will operate two- to three-night getaways to nowhere.

Sales for the Down Under programme open May 4.

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.

 

The latest cruise news, analysis and more straight to your inbox
Get the free newsletter read by industry experts

You May Also Like