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Crystal offers three-night Berlin add-on on two cruises
Crystal Cruises is adding pre- and post-cruise tours in Berlin for two northern European sailings next year. The three-night tours can be bolted on to a 10-night cruise departing June 22 and a seven- night sailing on July 2.
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APT introduces Bordeaux itineraries for next year
River cruise line APT has introduced two Bordeaux itineraries for 2016. The cruises, which lead in at £3,295, include calls in Cadillac, Pauillac and Libourne. For more details email
agentclub@aptouring.co.uk
HAL to host 500 agents on new ship Koningsdam
Hollie-Rae Merrick
hollie@travelweekly.co.uk
Holland America Line is to host more than 500 agents on visits to experience new vessel Koningsdam.
year and will sail out of Amsterdam. UK managing director
The ship launches next WIN!
Lynn Narraway said Koningsdam’s proximity to the UK meant hundreds of agents would be able to visit the ship in its first season. “This is our first new ship for
Cunard’s QM2 to operate fashion-themed sailing
Cunard will host a Transatlantic Fashion Week sailing on board Queen Mary 2 to coincide with next year’s New York Fashion Week. Designer Dame Zandra Rhodes and fashion historian Colin McDowell will join the seven-night sailing, which leaves Southampton on September 1, 2016. Prices start at £1,699.
cunard.co.uk
five years and it has re-energised the business,” she said. “We’re extremely excited about it and we’ve been on tenterhooks as different elements have been revealed. Agents are also gearing up for it, which is great.” One of the educationals will be a VIP trip that will involve 10 agents spending a weekend in the city and on Koningsdam. Agents could win a place on this
trip by donning the crown that will feature on the cover of next week’s issue of Travel Weekly and posing
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ASIA SPECIFIC: Royal Caribbean International hosts agents on a VIP fam trip to Asia. The group sailed on Quantum of the Seas from China, visiting destinations in Japan and South Korea. During the sailing, agents sampled the ship’s speciality restaurants and also tried the RipCord By iFly skydiving simulator and bumper cars. For highlights, visit travel
weekly.co.uk/royalfareast
KONINGSDAM: The ship will operate cruises from Amsterdam next year Narraway said: “It’s important
“Koningsdam is our first new ship for five years and it has re-energised the business”
for a fun and creative picture. They must then upload it to Twitter before November 26 with the hashtag #HALKings and including ‘@travelweekly’ in the tweet. A downloadable version of the
crown will also be available at
travelweekly.co.uk/HALKings.
for agents to see Koningsdam for themselves because it is the result of an evolution for our brand. “We want agents to do the HAL
Academy training and learn about our fleet, particularly the new ship and what makes it so different. “Our aim is that agents come
away from that thinking ‘I didn’t know that about Holland America’.”
Ship visits will also be held in
Newcastle on August 16, South Queensferry on August 17 and
Portland on September 20.
hollandamerica.com
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travelweekly.co.uk 29 October 2015
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