Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines’ Balmoral makes maiden call at Haugesund, Norway
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines' 1,350-guest Balmoral has made her inaugural call at Haugesund, Norway, as part of a ten-night L1303 'Norwegian Experience' cruise.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines' 1,350-guest Balmoral has made her inaugural call at Haugesund, Norway, as part of a ten-night L1303 'Norwegian Experience' cruise.
Boudicca’s 12-night ‘Madeira & the Canaries’ cruise, ex Belfast on 3rd October 2013 – will be hosted by TV naturalist, Tony Soper, through Fred. Olsen’s award-winning on board enrichment programme, Vistas.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has announced that, with effect from 1st July 2013, it will be streamlining the various dress codes for its cruise guests in the evenings across its fleet of four ships.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines – with its strong Norwegian heritage, having been established in the small Norwegian town of Hvitsten by the three Olsen brothers, Fredrik Christian, Petter and Andreas, in 1848 – is today [17th May 2013] proud to be celebrating one of the most important days in the Norwegian calendar, its ‘National Day’, or ‘Constitution Day’.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines will be welcoming acclaimed Norwegian author, Tore Fauske, on its ‘Vikings & Glaciers of Norway’ cruise.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has launched a new ‘Summer Cruises 2013’ brochure, introducing some unbeatable savings on 38 selected Summer cruises, departing from a range of convenient, regional UK ports – Southampton, Dover, Liverpool, Newcastle, Rosyth (Edinburgh) and Greenock (Glasgow) – between June and September 2013.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines’ Ipswich-based Sales Promotion Executive, Emma White, will be taking the brave step of having her head shaved on Sunday 2nd June 2013, in aid of Crohn's & Colitis UK.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has always attracted a high volume of solo travellers, and is able to offer the ‘personal service’ on board to make them very welcome. To make cruising with Fred. Olsen even more attractive to solo guests, the cruise line has introduced ‘no single supplement’ on certain twin grade cabins for sole occupancy, on a selection of 2014/15 cruises.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is offering a winter sunshine cruise with a difference this December, perfect for those who have always wanted to find out what the ‘real’ James Bond is like!
Ipswich-based Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines welcomed a delegation of local VIPs on a visit to its 804-guest cruise ship, Black Watch, on 7th May 2013, when the ship made its first-ever turnaround call at Harwich International Port, departing on a 14-night ‘European Capitals and Canals’ cruise.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is celebrating the first anniversary of its fourth guest-funded Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat, Spirit of Fred. Olsen, at the Kyle of Lochalsh, in the Highlands of Scotland.
For the 2014/15 cruise season, Fred. Olsen is pleased to offer two brand new departure ports: Tilbury and Avonmouth.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has reported taking the highest-ever number of advance registrations for its inspirational new 2014/15 cruise programme.
75-year old retired cabinet maker David James, who stepped down at the beginning of the year as a deputy launching authority at Minehead Lifeboat Station, has been named as the proud winner of an eight-night cruise around the coast of ‘Spain and Portugal’ with Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines, who sponsored an ‘Unsung Station Hero’ competition.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines’ 880-guest ship Boudicca will make its first turnaround call of the new cruise season from Liverpool’s Pier Head Cruise Terminal on Sunday 21st April 2013.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is launching two new exhilarating ‘Grand Voyages’ in 2015; Balmoral's 119-night L1501 ‘Exploring the Far East’ cruise, departing from Southampton on 4th January 2015 – the cruise line’s longest-ever sailing – and Black Watch's W1501 73-night 'South American Discovery' cruise, departing from Southampton on 6th January 2015.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is pleased to announce the launch of its new 2014/15 cruise itineraries, to hundreds of amazing and exotic destinations worldwide, from an even greater choice of regional UK ports than ever before.
The BBC gardening presenter, Steve Brookes, will be joining a Fred. Olsen cruise to the Canary Islands in 2013. Boudicca’s ‘Gardens & Beaches of the Canaries’ cruise, D1307, is for 12 nights, departing from Liverpool on 21st April 2013, the first departure in the cruise line’s new season from this popular port.
Ipswich-based Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is always keen to support local fundraising, and the cruise line recently donated a mini-cruise aboard Boudicca to the Felixstowe Rotary Club, as a prize for its annual ‘International Evening’, to help to raise money to build a ‘sand dam’ in Kenya.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is well-known for its great choice of convenient regional UK departure ports – no fewer than nine in 2013 – and also for offering a wide selection of mini-cruises.