{"id":15161,"date":"2008-08-27T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/marco-polo-on-sale-in-australia-2\/"},"modified":"2008-08-27T03:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T03:45:00","slug":"marco-polo-on-sale-in-australia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2008\/08\/marco-polo-on-sale-in-australia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Polo on sale in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cruise Abroad director Peter Marshall, who has been retained by Transocean Tours to continue his representation of Marco Polo in Australia, has released a 2008\/09 brochure with discounted fares in Australian dollars.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, Marshall was appointed gsa for Orient Lines in Australia in 1995 when it was owned by Gerry Herrod.<\/p>\n<p>He told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruise-community.com\/\">Seatrade Insider<\/a> today the 16-page full-colour \u2018Experience Marco Polo\u2019 brochure is currently being distributed to the agency network and will be available on his stand at the second annual Gold Coast Cruise Expo on September 7.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Marco Polo has never been so affordable,\u2019 Marshall said. \u2018Transocean has managed to keep costs down while, at the same time, maintaining the ambience that has made this classic ship so popular with Australian passengers.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>They are being encouraged to have a white Christmas on the 11-night Ushuaia\/Ushuaia December 17 \u2018Antarctic Christmas\u2019 cruise that has been reduced from A$4,095 to A$3,170 (US$2,742) per person twin-share.<\/p>\n<p>The fare for the 13-night \u2018Antarctic New Year\u2019 round cruise from Ushuaia on December 28 has been reduced from A$4,855 to A$4,125 (US$3,569).<\/p>\n<p>The 850-passenger ship\u2019s six-night \u2018Springtime Fjordland\u2019 round cruise from Tilbury on April 22 next year costs from A$185 (US$160) a night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cruise Abroad director Peter Marshall, who has been retained by Transocean Tours to continue his representation of Marco Polo in Australia, has released a 2008\/09 brochure with discounted fares in Australian dollars. As previously reported, Marshall was appointed gsa for Orient Lines in Australia in 1995 when it was owned by Gerry Herrod. He told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}