Cunard’s Queens to make history
Cunard will make cruise history in 2016 when all three of its Queens – Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth – will depart Southampton on the same day.
All three will leave the UK port on January 10 2016 and return together on May 10 2016 after completing their world voyages.
On sale from September, 5, Cunard’s 2016 world voyage programme also includes maiden visits to Kangaroo Island, Adelaide and Newcastle and Queen Victoria’s first roundtrip cruise from Sydney.
The eight-night roundtrip cruise from Sydney will visit Hobart and Melbourne and will make the cruise line’s maiden call to South Australia’s Kangaroo Island.
Meanwhile, Queen Elizabeth will make her maiden call in the New South Wales’ city of Newcastle on February 22, 2016, less than a week after her inaugural call to Adelaide on February 16.
Other highlights of her East-West voyage include a 20-night roundtrip cruise from Hong Kong throughout Asia.
Departing March 10, 2016, the cruise will visit 10 exotic destinations including Shanghai, South Korea and Taiwan, plus six ports in Japan during the nation’s Cherry Blossom season.
Queen Mary 2 will make history on her world voyage with her first visits to 11 ports including calls to tropical Papeete and Moorea in Tahiti and mystical Halong Bay in Vietnam.
All three ships will visit Sydney and Brisbane as they head north to Hong Kong with holidaymakers able to choose from three different routes from Australia to the Chinese city: via Papua New Guinea and the Philippines with Queen Elizabeth, taking in Malaysia and Shanghai with Queen Mary 2 and via Bali, Brunei and Vietnam with Queen Victoria.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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