P&O ships take on the world


News from Panama / Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014

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What a cruise, 115 days around the world including Panama!!

P&O Cruises World Cruising’s 2016 World Journeys Programme will see Aurora, Arcadia and Oriana cruising a total of 90,000 nautical miles and visiting more than 20 countries across the globe in three voyages.

The adults-only Arcadia will sail on a 115-night round-trip voyage from Southampton on January 11, 2016, calling at 32 destinations, including Alotau in Papua New Guinea and Jeju-do in South Korea for the first time.

The South America and Japan Adventure will also include some maiden ports for Arcadia including Hilo in Hawaii, St Vincent in the Cape Verde Islands, Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands and Tauranga in New Zealand.

Arcadia will make an overnight visit to Sydney and will also call at Brisbane and Cairns during the Australian leg of the cruise in early March.

Other highlights include a Panama Canal transit, scenic cruising around Cape Horn and Chile’s glaciers, and a visit to Japan timed with the cherry blossom season.

Aurora will depart Southampton on January 2, 2016, for a 114-night world cruise.

The world circumnavigation will include 38 destinations in 24 countries including the cruise line’s first calls at Banjul in Gambia and Cebu in the Philippines and the ship’s maiden visits to Keelung in Taiwan, Lahaina on Maui in Hawaii, Malacca in Malaysia and the Seychelles’ biggest island, Mahe.

The cruise line will also offer a shorter 50-night cruise on Oriana.