{"id":21510,"date":"2012-07-03T06:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/pacific-sun-sets-off-on-final-cruise-3\/"},"modified":"2012-07-03T06:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T06:12:00","slug":"pacific-sun-sets-off-on-final-cruise-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/07\/pacific-sun-sets-off-on-final-cruise-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Sun sets off on final cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruiseweekly.com.au\/\">Cruise Weekly<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-rZmcNdc-u-o\/T_KNIX92oRI\/AAAAAAAAWLM\/ynUoOO78-tk\/s1600\/pacific_sun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"172\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-rZmcNdc-u-o\/T_KNIX92oRI\/AAAAAAAAWLM\/ynUoOO78-tk\/s400\/pacific_sun.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>One of Australia\u2019s most significant ships has departed on its last voyage for P&amp;O before moving on to a new life in China.  A SMALL crowd gathered in Brisbane on Sunday to bid \u201cbon voyage\u201d to the Pacific Sun, affectionately known for many years as Australia\u2019s favourite cruise ship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a sombre sailaway with some of her fans lining the river to wave goodbye \u2013 I\u2019m told there were a few tears,\u201d a spokesperson for P&amp;O Australia told CW.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cIt\u2019s fair to say that Pacific Sun introduced thousands of Australians to cruising\u2026 She was at the core of the resurgence in cruising in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the eight years that Pacific Sun sailed under the P&amp;O brand, Australian cruising experienced double-digit annual growth.  Since 2004, the 47,000-tonne ship carried more than half a million passengers on 332 cruises, primarily around the South Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two weeks P&amp;O Australia fans on Facebook have posted comments and reminisced about memories of fun on the \u2018Sun\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>A group of \u201ccruise enthusiasts\u201d also set up a separate farewell page and are posting updates live from on board the final seven-night Pacific Island cruise. The 26-year-old ship was sold earlier this year as part of Carnival Australia\u2019s continuing program of fleet renewal.<\/p>\n<p>Ann Sherry, CEO of Carnival Australia, said Pacific Sun had been \u201cenormously popular\u201d.  \u201cWhen Pacific Sun joined our fleet eight years ago, Carnival Australia had two ships based in Australia and now we have seven, so she has certainly played a role in that growth\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The 723-cabin vessel, built in Sweden in 1986, was first named Jubilee and sailed for US-based Carnival Cruise Lines in the Caribbean, Mexico and Alaska.  Mystery surrounds the new unidentified owners, but according to unconfirmed rumours, the ship may be converted into a \u201cfloating casino\u201d in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cruise WeeklyOne of Australia\u2019s most significant ships has departed on its last voyage for P&amp;O before moving on to a new life in China. A SMALL crowd gathered in Brisbane on Sunday to bid \u201cbon voyage\u201d to the Pacific Sun, affectionately known for many years as Australia\u2019s favourite cruise ship. \u201cIt was a sombre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,303],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carnival-corporation","category-travel-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21510","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=21510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}