P&O Cruises releases Adonia details

Saturday, 23 Mar, 2010 0

Double discounts are being applied to encourage early bookings for P&O Cruises’ new, small “pathfinder” ship Adonia.

Savings of up to £800 per couple for a 14 night cruise next year are available for bookings made by June 30.

Free car parking is available on all of the ship’s Southampton departures.

On board spending money of between £50 and £250 per cabin is also available, depending on the duration of the cruise.

Sample lead-in prices are £1,924 per person based on two sharing an inside cabin for the vessel’s 16-night Western Mediterranean maiden cruise from Southampton in May 2011.

Other starting prices are £899 for a seven night ex-Southampton Norwegian Fjords cruise, and £1,399 cruise-only, for a 14-night Central Mediterranean holiday from Trieste to Athens in December 2011. A holiday package add-on with flights is available for £99.

Pricing details came ahead of bookings opening on April 27 for cruises in 2011-12.

The 710-passenger vessel – currently operating as Royal Princess for sister company Princess Cruises – joins the P&O Cruises fleet in May next year.

More than three quarters of the ship’s cabins will have balconies and will feature Egyptian cotton linen and tea and coffee making facilities.

The adults-only replacement for Artemis will feature two fine dining restaurants.

Supplements will be charged for the Italian ‘Sorrento’ restaurant and a steakhouse named the Ocean Grill.

Adonia’s main restaurant will be known as the Pacific dining room. There will also be a buffet restaurant, with al fresco dining and a barbecue area, and eight bars.

The Oasis Spa will offer treatments and therapies including Aromasoul massages and body scrubs, Aromatherapy, and reflexology. A gym will have panoramic sea views.

The ship will be based in Southampton between May and October 2011, running cruises from seven to 26 nights in duration to the Mediterranean and Northern Europe. Cruises will include overnight calls in Athens and St. Petersburg, as well as a round Britain cruise.

Adonia will then reposition to the Mediterranean and offer six open-jaw Central and Eastern Mediterranean fly-cruises, departing from Savona, Athens, Trieste and Naples (see earlier TravelMole story).

Highlights include a Christmas and New Year cruise to the Holy Land and the ship will also visit nine new ports of called throughout 2011-12.

Eighteen ports of call are being reintroduced – some instances after a gap of more than 30 years – on Adonia’s itineraries, including:Alta, Norway;Antalya, Turkey; Ashdod, Israel; Bodo, Norway; Bodrum, Turkey; Catania, Italy; Gythion, Greece; Haifa, Israel; Huelva, Spain; Izmir, Turkey; Patmos, Greece; Port Mahon, Spain; Salerno, Italy;Samos, Greece; Tangiers, Morocco; Trieste, Italy; Volos, Greece and Waterford in Ireland.

P&O Cruises’ managing director Carol Marlow, said: ““We also delighted to be introducing a number of new destinations for our passengers next year, as well as a number not visited since the days of P&O Cruises’ Victoria.”

She added: “Adonia will be our pathfinder ship, but she will, of course offer our tried and tested P&O Cruises experience,

“We know that many of our passengers prefer a cruise experience exclusively for adults and also the intimate atmosphere and sense of camaraderie that comes with a smaller ship.

“Adonia is an exciting introduction to our fleet and one that enables us to diversify the range of cruise destinations that we offer

“She is a small ship and her size enables her to visit off the beaten track destinations and lesser known ports of call.”

by Phil Davies

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