New Regional Departures For Boudicca

With the retirement of Black Prince in October 2009, Fred. Olsen will be relocating another of its vessels to take over the regional departure programme currently operated by Black Prince.  From spring 2010, the 839 passenger Boudicca will add the ports of Greenock (for Glasgow) and Liverpool to its existing departure ports of Rosyth (for Edinburgh), Newcastle and Southampton.

Boudicca will reposition from Southampton to Liverpool in March 2010 and operate a season of cruises to the Canaries, Eastern and Western Mediterranean, Norway and the Baltic before moving to her next home port, Greenock, in June.  Her summer cruises from Greenock visit the Canary Islands, Italy and Norway, after which she repositions to Rosyth in late July.  After three cruises, to Spitzbergen, the Baltic and Norway, Boudicca moves south to the Port of Tyne in August and from there she cruises to the North Cape, Scandinavia, The Baltic, Norway, round Britain, and the Mediterranean before returning to Liverpool in November.

Lol Nichols, Fred. Olsen’s general sales manager said: “We have always been very committed to operating ex-UK cruises from a wide choice of regional ports, and with Black Prince retiring, we did not want to lose our ex-Liverpool and Greenock programmes.  By utilising Boudicca from these ports – as well as Rosyth and Newcastle, where she has already operated successfully – we can maintain these important and very popular departures.  The extra capacity of Boudicca – 839 passengers compared to Black Prince’s 412 – means that even with fewer sailings, we can still accommodate a large number of customers from these northern regions.”

For more details on the new cruises visit http://www.fredolsencruises.co.uk/   To book, call Reservations on 01473 742424 or see your ABTA travel agent. You can also book online.