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trip from Singapore in December 2015 and February 2016 that stay in port four days. Overnight stays are a growing trend. For 2015,
Celebrity Cruises has two-day calls in eight cities, including Hong Kong, Hanoi, Bangkok, Singapore and Bali. Regent Seven Seas Cruises and Voyages to Antiquity will stay a couple of days in cities that include Shanghai, Kobe, Hong Kong, Singapore and Ho Chi Minh City.
What’s new Crystal Cruises (
crystalcruises.co.uk) has expanded
its 2015 Asia programme and added two-day stays in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Ho Chi Minh City and Yangon. A three-day pre- and post-cruise overnight land programme to Beijing and the Great Wall is
included with two March and April cruises. Compagnie du Ponant (
ponant.com) has added two eight-night Japan-based itineraries to L’Austral’s Asia programme for spring 2015. Traditional Japan, voyaging from Tianjin in China to Osaka, departs March 29 and visits four Japanese ports. Best of Japan, between Osaka and Maizaru in China, departs April 14 and 22 and will tick off fi ve ports
in Japan including Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Costa Cruises (
costacruises.co.uk) has a new nine-night voyage through the Philippines from Singapore to Hong Kong on Costa Victoria. Departing January 6 2105, it will visit Bandar Seri Begawan in Brunei, Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia, and Puerto Princesa Palawan, Borocay and Manila in the
Philippines. From £599pp, cruise-only. Celebrity Cruises (
celebritycruises.co.uk) has a fi rst- time 14-night cruise round-trip from Yokohama (the port for Tokyo) departing October 11 2015 that
visits fi ve ports in the Land of the Rising Sun. Windstar (
windstarcruises.com) has launched two cruise tours in Asia, one combining a four-day tour of Myanmar with a 10-day Asia sailing out of Singapore, the other adding a three-day stay in Cambodia to a 10-day cruise from Hong Kong to Ho Chi Minh City.
“We are finding that passengers are seeking more diverse travel experiences – there is a real appetite to explore those more far-flung destinations”
PAUL LUDLOW, MANAGING DIRECTOR UK AND EUROPE PRINCESS CRUISES
WAR TOURS GO DOWN A BOMB BY JANE ARCHER “War was definitely a ‘theme’ on my Regent Seven Seas Cruises’ 17-night voyage from Hong Kong to Tianjin (the port for Beijing). The all-suite, all-balcony Seven Seas
Where to book it SWAN HELLENIC – 0844 334 8221
Swan is in Asia from December 2014 to March 2015, sailing from Myanmar to Japan and China and back. Prices start from £2,499pp, including fl ights, for a Shores of the Orient cruise from Singapore
to Colombo on February 28 2015.
swanhellenic.com SEABOURN – 0843 373 2000 Seabourn Sojourn will be in Asia from December 2015 to April 2016, offering two-week cruises in Asia and the Orient. From £4,698pp cruise-only for a 14-night Myanmar and Malaysia cruise from
Singapore on December 6 2015.
seabourn.com SILVERSEA – 0844 251 0837 Silversea has voyages in Asia next year from January to March and October to December sailing between Singapore and Hong Kong. Prices start from £2,750pp cruise-only for nine nights
Opposite page: Thailand is a popular choie on many multi- centre Asia cruises; This page: top: Crystal Symphony docked in Hong King; Angkor wat, Cambodia
departing November 22 2015.
silversea.com FRED OLSEN CRUISE LINES – 0800 035 5242 Balmoral sets sail on an epic 119-night Far East Explorer cruise round-trip from Southampton on January 4 2015 visiting 51 destinations in 24 countries. From £9,999pp cruise-only.
fredolsencruises.com •
Voyager visited Okinawa, where 200,000 soldiers and civilians were killed in one of the fiercest battles in the Pacific during World War Two; Hiroshima, where the atom bomb was dropped on August 6 1945, and Incheon, for a tour to the demilitarized zone, or DMZ, that divides North and South Korea (pictured). The tours were well attended – like most
of Regent’s shore excursions the cost is included in the cruise fare so it pays to make the most of what is on offer. In fact, plenty is included on a Regent
cruise – flights, transfers, food, drinks and gratuities – and unless you use the internet or spa4, there is no need to put your hand in your pocket for anything, not even for the steaks in Prime 7, French cuisine in Signatures or the butler who serves the top suites. Regent (
rssc.com) will repeat this itinerary on a 16-night cruise from Hong Kong to Tianjin on February 5 2015 priced from £5,799pp all-inclusive.”
MARK STRATTON
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