Civilisations Cruises
Fred. Olsen’s Civilisations cruises have become a popular and well-established part of the cruise line’s offering in recent years.
Fred. Olsen’s Civilisations cruises have become a popular and well-established part of the cruise line’s offering in recent years.
Fred. Olsen’s new brochure of worldwide cruises for 2009-10 includes three complete World Cruises, all with very individual itineraries - the most the cruise line has ever offered. The ships offering these epic voyages are Black Watch and Balmoral, both designed for long cruising with plentiful storage space and roomy cabins.
As more and more people take to cruising, so the range of interests and pastimes they enjoy has continued to expand. Fred. Olsen has always offered a range of varied activities, both onboard and ashore, with its special interest programmes The ArtsClub. For the more sporty guest, Flagship Golf is a popular add-on to a cruise, while music, in all its forms, also has a key role to play.
For 2009-10, Fred. Olsen continues to expand its portfolio of regional departure ports from the UK, as well as regional airports for fly/cruises.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has announced that, due to the rising cost of fuel, it has become necessary to increase the current fuel surcharge on all new bookings for cruises departing up to and including 16 April 2009 made on or after 10th June 2008. Bookings confirmed prior to that date will not be affected.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has just announced two brand new cruises aboard latest ship Balmoral. BL025 is a 12-night cruise around Britain, departing from Dover on 7th October. This cruise visits some of the loveliest parts of England, Ireland and Scotland – as well as a final call into Amsterdam for some continental flavour!
The Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines’ ship Braemar arrived at the Blohm + Voss Repair GmbH shipyard in Hamburg on 13th May for work to begin on inserting a new mid section into the vessel.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has just launched its brochure of worldwide cruises for 2009/10, and announced that the company will be operating two fly/cruise departures from Durham Tees Valley airport to the Caribbean, following successful sales of the first fly/cruise from the airport later this year.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has signed a deal with Bio Driven of Canterbury, a new start up company dedicated to the production of high quality, compliant Bio diesel. Waste cooking oil from the cruise ships will be collected and transformed through a carbon negative process into a clean and efficient fuel.
Guests aboard selected Fred. Olsen cruises during 2008 will have an extra treat to look forward to, as one of Britain’s lest-loved game show hosts will be the star entertainer. Jim Bowen, of Bullseye fame, will star on two Black Watch cruises (BW866 and BW869) to Iberia and the Canaries and two Boudicca cruises (BD061 and BD062) from Liverpool to Norway.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines recently laid on a little something extra for lucky customers on their first fly/cruise to the Mediterranean from Bristol Airport. To mark the occasion of the first Mediterranean departure, Fred. Olsen greeted passengers with champagne and orange juice accompanied by delicious Mediterranean-style canapés to get them in the holiday mood.
Fred. Olsen’s latest ship Balmoral begins a short season of Mediterranean fly/cruises from Civitavecchia (the port for Rome) on 1st May, with flights direct from Stansted. The 1,340 passenger ship will operate five cruises in the Mediterranean and Adriatic before returning to her UK home port of Dover for the remainder of the year.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines recognises that some discerning customers want more from a cruise than just a relaxing holiday with good food, entertainment and great sight-seeing – they want the opportunity to learn and discover more about the places they visit. For those seeking this kind of cultural discovery, Fred. Olsen launched its Civilisations programme.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has announced plans to base the 839-passenger Boudicca in the southern port of Portsmouth in the autumn of 2009. This is in line with the cruise line’s philosophy of using a variety of regional departure ports for its worldwide cruise programme.
Fred. Olsen has just launched its 2009/2010 Preview as an advance guide for cruises aboard its fleet of five ships.
Balmoral, latest addition to the Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines’ fleet, has completed her inaugural cruise to Florida, her base for Caribbean cruising. The ship left Dover on 13th February, and after calling at La Coruna and Tenerife, crossed the Atlantic to the Caribbean, with arrival in Miami on schedule on 1st March.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has greatly increased the use of regional airports for its programme of fly/cruises to the Caribbean and Mediterranean in 2008/9. One of the most popular airports in the programme is Stansted and on Monday 3rd March, the first Fred. Olsen charter took off for Miami to join latest cruise ship, Balmoral, on an 11-night cruise round the islands of the Eastern Caribbean.
Following the success of the first Civilisations programme, Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has just launched a brochure for a second season of these very special cruises.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines offers a comprehensive programme of fly/cruises, to the Caribbean and Mediterranean for 2008. The cruise line uses a wide choice of regional airports, including Bristol.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines recently launched an online competition, inviting entrants to send in the best of their travel shots for a prize of Olympus photographic equipment.