For the millions of us who’ve enjoyed a holiday with P&O Cruises Australia, a special era comes to an ignoble end.
P&O Cruises Australia isn’t ending in coronavirus, bankruptcy or a sinking. It isn’t going to end with any sort of bang at all, but rather a corporate whimper.
P&O ships Pacific Encounter and Pacific Adventure will be renamed Carnival Encounter and Carnival Adventure and absorbed into Carnival Cruise Line. Pacific Explorer will be retired altogether. Crew, dining choices, entertainment and themed cruises will remain mostly unchanged, while technologies will be upgraded.But the question among die-hard P&O fans is whether this will last. It seems unlikely that Carnival-branded ships will continue to belt out Men at Work’sCarnival ships have always offered a different product and atmosphere to those of P&O Cruises Australia, which were aimed firmly at the Aussie market.
Cabins sold out in a single day, testament to what would become an Australian fondness for cruising. Soon mail steamers were taking passengers to New Zealand, Fiji, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea.
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