Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines extends its Reservations opening hours
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has announced that it will be extending the opening hours of its Reservations Department, with effect from Monday 5th March 2012
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has announced that it will be extending the opening hours of its Reservations Department, with effect from Monday 5th March 2012
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines’ 1,350-guest cruise ship Balmoral made her inaugural call at the Port of Galveston in the United States on 25th January 2012, during the first sector of her 89-night ‘Cruise to the New World’, which departed from Southampton on 5th January 2012.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is delighted to announce that the inspirational former jockey and Grand National winner, Robert ‘Bob’ Champion MBE, will be joining its acclaimed cruise enrichment programme, Vistas, as one of its ‘Sporting Personalities.’
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines – awarded ‘Best Educational Cruise’ by readers of Cruise International magazine in 2011 – is offering three cruises in 2012 with ‘Antiques’ as the special topic, through its acclaimed onboard enrichment programme, Vistas.
Cruise experts at influential website Cruise Critic recently voted Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines ‘Best for Solo Cruisers’ in the third annual Cruise Critic ‘2011 Editors' Picks Awards’.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines will be launching its first TV advertising campaign since 2009, using the distinctive, hand-drawn style and strong brand values of its recent highly-successful print campaign.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is welcoming the launch of its latest guest-funded RNLI lifeboat, which has just been unveiled at the Kyle of Lochalsh, in the Highlands of Scotland. The new lifeboat has been made possible by the generosity of Fred. Olsen guests on board its four cruise ships.
Cruise from UK departure ports for your convenience to Worldwide destinations. Ipswich-based Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines will commence calls from Harwich International Port in 2013, with 804-guest Black Watch making four turnaround visits to the Essex port in May and June 2013.
Cruise to the Mediterranean with the renowned TV correspondent, Michael Nicholson, OBE, MA, who is the latest in a line of glittering speakers to join its Vistas cruise enrichment programme. Michael will be the guest speaker on Boudicca’s 23-night cruise to the Mediterranean, departing from Portsmouth on 12th October 2012.
After 32 years’ tirelessly promoting travel by sea, Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines’ retiring Sales and Marketing Director, Nigel Lingard, has been recognised with a lifetime achievement award – the Passenger Shipping Association’s (PSA) annual ‘John Lancaster Smith Award’.
Members of the travel trade, cruise industry and the media gathered at London’s elegant Reform Club in Pall Mall on 22nd November 2011, at a glittering reception to honour the retiring Sales and Marketing Director of Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines, Nigel Lingard.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is launching a new brochure of 73 specially selected, ex-UK cruises for 2012/13, offering exceptional value for money – the ‘Captains’ Collection’, on sale from 1st December 2011.
The multi-award winning Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines www.fredolsencruises.com has received another accolade from the travel trade, having been voted ‘Cruise Company of the Year for Mainstream Cruise Holidays’ in the Travel Agents’ Choice Awards. The other nominees in this category were P&O, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Royal Caribbean and Thomson.
Explorer, author and historian, Tim Severin, is the latest illustrious name to join Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines’ Vistas programme as a speaker, www.fredolsencruises-vistas.com. Perhaps best known for his Viking Series of historical novels, Tim’s new association with the cruise line is especially appropriate given the company’s Norwegian heritage.
Guests joining award-winning Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines’ (www.fredolsencruises.com) 35-night Caribbean voyage aboard Boudicca in January 2012 – D1202 – will find themselves in the prestigious company of three major sporting celebrities from two of Britain’s favourite sports, darts and football.
With heating costs having risen by 18% in recent months, and exceptionally cold weather predicted, Britain is anticipating a difficult time this winter; in fact, forecasters are expecting the disruptive weather front known as ‘La Niňa’ to cause temperatures to plummet. So, why not leave it all behind and take a ‘Winter Sunshine’ cruise with Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines?
During the Seatrade Europe 2011 Convention in Hamburg, Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines was honoured by the Atlantic Alliance, with its prestigious ‘Triple A’ Award. The cruise line was recognised for being the most frequent visitor to the Atlantic Alliance’s member ports in 2011, visiting ten of the 17 ports which make up the Alliance during the 2011/12 cruise season.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines, recently voted ‘Cruise Line of the Year’ by readers of Cruise International magazine, will have a team of experts on hand at this autumn’s Telegraph CRUISE Show, to be held in Glasgow and Birmingham, ready to inspire and inform visitors on the right kind of Fred. Olsen cruise for them.
On Tuesday 4th October 2011, Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines, in association with the Port of Tyne, welcomed a delegation of VIP guests aboard its elegant 880-guest cruise ship, Boudicca, in Newcastle.
As part of Vistas, its wide-ranging cruise enhancement programme, Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is proud to welcome on board the famed explorer Colonel John Blashford-Snell. Lecturing aboard Braemar’s cruise of the Brazilian Amazon, M1203, appropriately he will be talking about ‘Amazonia’ and expeditions to this fascinating region.