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Celebrity offers $400 fjords food and drinks packages
Celebrity Cruises is offering up to $400 onboard spending and free drinks packages on Celebrity Eclipse’s Norwegian Fjords summer cruises. Prices for the August 26 sailing from Southampton start from £1,549.
celebritycruises.co.uk
Saga launches follow-up to sold-out solo cruise
Saga has added a second all- inclusive solo-passengers cruise, after the first sold out. Prices for the Douro River cruise, departing November 3, start from £1,299.
saga.co.uk/rivercruises
New ship Silver Muse joins 2017 Silversea programme
Silversea’s 2017 Voyages and Expeditions digital brochure features 260 itineraries on nine ocean and expedition ships, including new vessel Silver Muse, to be launched next April.
silversea.com
River Cruise Line brings Charlie Dimmock on board
Gardener Charlie Dimmock will be a guest speaker on The River Cruise Line’s Lady Anne Dutch waterways cruise, departing April 25, priced from £299, including return coach travel.
rivercruiseline.co.uk
Fred Olsen brings out first AmaWaterways brochure
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Fred Olsen Travel has released its first dedicated AmaWaterways brochure, despite the river cruise line’s decision to end its partnership with Fred Olsen as its general sales agent. The 2017 brochure features
17 European sailings, including cruises on the Rhine and Danube, and in Bordeaux. The programme
also features new vessel AmaKristina which, like sister ships AmaViola and AmaStella, has interconnecting staterooms. Fred Olsen Travel will continue
to represent AmaWaterways in the UK until September 1, when the line intends to have its own office up and running. After this date, the East
Anglia-based agency chain will continue to work with the line as a preferred partner. Fred Olsen Travel’s Fred River
Cruise sub-brand will continue to package AmaWaterways sailings that can still be booked by agents. Steve Williams, managing
director of Fred Olsen Travel, said: Advert
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www.scenic.co.uk
MSC secures private slice of Abu Dhabi island for passengers
MSC Cruises has signed a deal to give its passengers exclusive access to an area of Sir Bani Yas Island, off the coast of Abu Dhabi, for the line’s winter 2016-17 itineraries. From December, MSC Fantasia
will add the island to its itineraries and guests will spend a day there. The line said it had been
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SIR BANI YAS: Island will set aside private space for MSC voyagers
working with the Abu Dhabi Ports Authority for two years. The island will have 2,000 sunbeds, a private space for MSC Yacht Club guests, a
AMAWATERWAYS: Fred Olsen Travel will remain a preferred partner
“Travel agents can continue to work with us but under the Fred River Cruises brand”
“We have developed a tremendous relationship with the travel trade for the past seven or eight years and travel agents and homeworkers can continue to work with us in exactly the same way as before but under the Fred River Cruises brand.” AmaWaterways previously said
the decision to open a UK office had been made to ensure that it “is well positioned to capitalise on
the growing river cruise market in the UK”. The team will be led by Stuart
Perl, who has been appointed UK and Europe managing director. The new offices are expected to be in Guildford or Woking in Surrey. AmaWaterways is also offering agents the chance to win a meal out for an agent and up to 11 colleagues. To enter the prize draw, make
three bookings during Euro 2016 (between June 10 and July 10). Booking references should be emailed to
agency.sales@
amawaterways.co.uk.
fredrivercruises.co.uk/ amawaterways
spa area, sports facilities, a family and children’s area, and a Bedouin tent hosting craft activities. Ship food and drink offers, such as the all-inclusive Allegrissimo drinks package, will also extend to
the island. MSC Fantasia’s first cruise departs Dubai on December 3, calling at Abu Dhabi, Sir Bani Yas Island, Doha, Bahrain and Dubai, where guests can stay on the ship overnight. Prices start from £899,
including flights, with Emirates.
mscbook.co.uk
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