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Murray Princess 50% Summer Sale
Summer is finally here and to celebrate Captain Cook Cruises is letting the second person cruise for half price on any of its 3, 4 or 7 night Murray River Cruises. The sale starts 20 September 2008 and ends 15 January 2009 and passengers can cruise between 01 November 08 and 28 February 09. The […]
FIND YOUR INNER MANTRA AT THE BRAND NEW MANTRA TULLAMARINE
Stella Hospitality Group – is about to launch its newest addition to Victoria’s premium 4.5 star hotel market – with the new 277-room Mantra Tullamarine property set to open its doors to the public on October 29, 2008. Mantra is now the largest 4 – 4.5 star hotel brand in Australia, through the consolidation of […]
Living on Gwion Time
Expedition cruiser, Roderick Eime, comes face-to-face with an ancient hunter born before the ice age. Blank faced and expressionless, he stood there staring at me. His slender arms adorned with intricate tassels hold a clutch of boomerangs as if inviting me to hunt with him. Literally frozen in time, this ancient gent has held this […]
Adina Apartment Hotel Expand Further into Europe
Following the success of its existing Adina Apartment Hotels in Europe, Australian-owned Toga Hospitality is set to add at least three new Adina Apartment Hotels to its portfolio over the next two years. Toga Hospitality’s three Adina Apartment Hotels, currently operating in Copenhagen, Budapest and Berlin offer stylish and spacious five-star apartment accommodation, hotel service […]
Orion on acquisition hunt
Michael Bruce – Travel Weekly Orion Cruises has abandoned plans to purchase a new-build vessel and will instead look at acquisitions within the next 12 months, founder and managing director Sarina Bratton has said. Bratton told Travel Today the sale of 94 per cent of the business to Denver-based KSL Capital Partners earlier this year […]
Expedition cruising: can adventure be luxurious?
By Jane Archer – telegraph.co.ukWhat makes a perfect expedition cruise – luxury, lectures or roughing it? Jane Archer gives her opinion. Can an expedition ship also be a luxury ship? The question has been ringing in my ears ever since Silversea announced earlier this year that it had bought a ship with an ice-strengthened hull […]
Cruise Weekly Comment: PNG
Cruise Weekly – Comment by Roderick Eime If ever there was a destination perfect for adventure and expedition cruising, it would have to be Papua New Guinea. I’m about to set sail for PNG again next week and this will be my fourth visit. I can’t imagine getting tired of visiting this wild and colourful […]
Into the Heart of Borneo*
An Expedition on the Mighty Rajang River on the new RV Orient Pandaw Borneo, the second largest island in the world after Greenland, has one of the most diverse eco systems on the planet, its primary rain forest home to a vast number of species of flora and fauna. Now part of Eastern Malaysia, Sarawak […]
Hapag-Lloyd Cruises’ BREMEN successfully passes through the Northwest Passage
– The Only Cruise Ships In the World to Offer this Legendary Voyage Again in 2009 – Under the command of Captain Ulf Wolter, Hapag-Lloyd’s expedition ship MS BREMEN has completed its crossing of the Northwest Passage. On September 1, 2008, the BREMEN docked in Point Barrow, Alaska, at the western end of the legendary […]
TULIP TIME 2008 TO SHINE LIGHT & COLOUR ON DEPRESSION & MENTAL ILLNESS
Tulip Time has become Australia’s oldest and most beautiful flora festival. Now in its 47th year, Tulip Time will commence Thursday 25 September and conclude Wednesday 8 October. Tulip Time will showcase a spectacular display of over 100,000 tulips and 25,000 annuals in Corbett Gardens, Bowral and some of the best private gardens in Australia. […]
