TREAT YOURSELF REGALLY: A MONTH ABOARD QUEEN VICTORIA

The recent visit to Australia by Cunard’s spectacular Queen Victoria created enormous interest in affordable top-shelf cruising by Australians, and ecruising.travel is now selling a whole month aboard this regal liner from Sydney to Perth and through South East Asia to Singapore next February, with prices from just $9,449pp twin-share.

And it includes not only 32-nights aboard Queen Victoria with all gourmet dining, 5-star service and nightly big-stage entertainment, but three nights post-cruise at the 5-star Banyan Tree Resort in Bintan (Indonesia) with return ferry and land transfers, but one-way air from Singapore to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or Adelaide as well*.

Queen Victoria departs Sydney on February 20th 2010 for Melbourne, Adelaide, Albany, Fremantle (Perth,) Exmouth, and Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia.)

There are then two days in Hong Kong with an overnight aboard ship, Shanghai, then Halong Bay and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, Bangkok and Ko Samui (Thailand,) and Singapore – with the 3-nights at the Banyan Tree Resort in Bintan, Indonesia.

For full details phone 1300 369 848 or check-out www.ecruising.travel  *Air taxes applicable at time of booking are additional.

ADDITIONAL SHIPBOARD INFORMATION: Queen Victoria has eleven restaurants, cafés and specialty lounges – including one reminiscent of Queen Victoria’s home Osborne House in which white-gloved waiters serve traditional English Afternoon Tea daily.

There’s a choice of silver service dining indoors or more relaxed alfresco on deck, a range of bars and lounges, and an “English pub” that serves beer, cider and perry (wine made from pears) and traditional pub meals.

Queen Victoria also has an 800-seat live-stage theatre, a vast range of sporting and social inter-action activities, a casino, cigar lounge, nightclub, and children’s PlayZones and entertainment programs.