Australia’s summer cruise
season will begin in
September – and not in
Sydney.
THE FIRST SHIP TO BE REDEPLOYED FOR THE
2011-12 season, Princess Cruises’ Sun
Princess, will arrive in Brisbane on 21
September – ahead of the traditional
October launch.
Last year, the 2010-11 wave season
kicked off in Sydney with two Princess ships,
and the first international ship was Royal
Caribbean’s Rhapsody of the Seas on 16
October.
Queenslanders can have a preview of Sun
Princess next Thursday when it docks at
Portside Wharf at 7.30am.
“The 28 July arrival is just a one-day visit
as she’s en route from Fremantle to Sydney,”
a Princess Cruises spokesperson told Cr Cruise uise
Weekl eekl eekly this week.
“There will be another Brisbane call four
days later as she heads back to Fremantle
from Sydney.”
Sun Princess was based in Sydney last
season but moves up to Brisbane this season
– the first time Princess Cruises has based a
ship in Queensland.
The line is sending the younger Sea
Princess to Sydney as a replacement,
arriving on 17 October.
But the harbour city’s first international
ship will be Holland America Line’s
Volendam, arriving 4 October.
Australia’s first 21st-century superliner,
Radiance of the Seas, commences its
inaugural Sydney departures on 15 October,
joining Royal Caribbean fleetmate Rhapsody.
Other newcomers calling Sydney home for
the first time this season include Holland
America’s Zaandam, from 25 November,
and Celebrity Cruises’ Celebrity Century,
from 30 November.
