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P&O Cruises Sails South to Dark Mofo and Serves Up More Tennis with New Cruise Range
P&OCruises is adding a new edge to its local holiday offerings, with a specialcruise to the unique Dark Mofo midwinter festival in Hobart.
Sailingfrom Sydney in June next year on the Pacific Jewel, the six-night cruise willspend three days in Hobart allowing guests to enjoy the art, food, music, light,film and oddities featured in the incredible annual celebration of the dark.
Pricedfrom $599* per person quad share, the cruise includes entry to Tasmania's iconicMuseum of Old and New Art (Mona) which stages the Dark Mofo festival.
Onsale May 17, the Dark Mofo cruise is one of the headline acts in P&O'sprogram update for 2017-18 which features a range of new itineraries and extracruises.
Thecruise line is also serving up its first ever tennis double, with Pacific Ariajoining Pacific Pearl to offer roundtrip cruises from Sydney to the popularAustralian Open tennis championships in Melbourne in January 2018. Fares on Pacific Aria's five-night cruisedeparting January 17, 2018 start from $799* per person quad share.
Inanother new sailing for January 2018, Pacific Eden will cruise south fromBrisbane on a six-night roundtrip Australia Day cruise. Guests will enjoy a dayof spectacular celebrations on Sydney Harbour on January 26, as well as visitsto Newcastle and Moreton Island on the cruise, which is priced from $1099* perperson quad share.
Meanwhile,P&O is expanding in the west, with four more cruises in 2017 including itsfirst ever four-night seabreak to Exmouth from Fremantle. Sailing on PacificEden from Fremantle on June 26, 2017, the cruise is priced from $649* perperson quad share.
Otherextra short break options include a four-night cruise from Fremantle toBusselton, gateway to Margaret River, and a three-night weekend comedy cruise.
Meanwhile,travellers with more time will be able to enjoy a spectacular 10-night cruisealong the Western Australian coast including scenic cruising through theKimberley and visits to Broome, Exmouth and Geraldton on a Pacific Eden cruisedeparting Fremantle on June 12, 2017.Fares start from $1429* per person quad share.
The new program update is on sale fromMay 17, 2016. For more information visitpocruises.com.au, call 13 24 94 or see a licensed travel agent.
*subject toavailability, conditions apply
Note to editors: Theregion's largest and longest-serving cruise operator, P&O Cruises Australialeads the way in cruising as Australasia's only 'home brand' and its favouritecruise line. P&O Cruises has been sailing the region for more than 80years, and has pioneered new destinations around Australia, the Pacific and Asiaincluding Papua New Guinea, as reported in the New York Times' 52 topdestinations for 2015. P&O Cruises is the nation's largest cruiseline with five ships cruising from eight home ports in Australia, New Zealandand Singapore. In November 2015 Pacific Aria and Pacific Eden were added to thecruise line's existing three-ship fleet and in 2017 P&O Cruises willwelcome its latest ship – Pacific Explorer. In another milestone, P&O willbecome the first cruise line to build a ship specifically for the local market,launching abrand new 135,500-tonne ship in 2019 - the biggest cruise shipever to be based fulltime in Australia.
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