Tagged: P&O Cruises

P&O Cruises announced that the Oceana has been sold and will leave the fleet. It makes the 2000-built 2,016-guest ship the first “modern” cruise ship sold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

P&O Cruises today announced three new aerial shows for Iona’s maiden season. The three new shows planned for Iona’s maiden season are entitled Rise, Triboo and Dream. Iona’s design, featuring a two-deck glass SkyDome, designed to bring the outside in, has been the inspiration for Rise and Triboo with the shows created to reflect their performance environment which provides panoramic views of sea and sky. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

As P&O Cruises’ Arcadia was sailing from the UK to Australia on her current world voyage, onboard news services were dominated by Australia’s summer bushfire emergency. Captain Ashley Cook and the ship’s Chief Engineer, Chris Greatorex, decided something must be done to support the volunteer firefighters risking their own lives to save others and protect wildlife and property. (etbtravelnews.global)

Gary Barlow is one of Britain’s most successful songwriters and record producers. As part of pop group Take That, he has won eight BRIT Awards and sold over 45 million records. (more…)

Cruise ship VENTURA was disabled and started to drift at around 2030 UTC Dec 7, shortly after leaving Santa Cruz De Tenerife, Canary Islands, during her 12-day cruise which started at Southampton. The ship requested assistance, she was taken n tow at around 0120 UTC Dec 8 and towed back to Santa Cruz. (maritimebulletin.net)

P&O Cruises has announced the preliminary line-up for “Ionafest”, the music and entertainment festival at sea which will mark the naming of its new 5,200-passenger flagship Iona — the largest ship ever built for the U.K. market. (cruisecritic.co.uk)

P&O Cruises announced its “Food Heroes” sailings for next year, which will include food and drink themed cruises on the line’s new flagship Iona launching in May 2020. Passengers will have the opportunity to sail with top chef Marco Pierre White, master patissier Eric Lanlard and wine expert Olly Smith on a total of ten ex-U.K. itineraries of 7 or 14 nights. (cruisecritic.co.uk)

P&O Cruises will position Azura in Malta for a series of summer cruises and Oceana again back to the Arabian Gulf as parts of the line’s 2021-22 programme, it said in a statement. Oceana’s 2019-20 winter programme in the Arabian Gulf was cancelled due to security concerns a few weeks ago. The ship will return top the region for the 2020-21 winter season as well. (cruisebusiness.com)