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Fireworks and Four Ships – P&O Celebrates Australia Day

Sydneysiderswill be able to enjoy the spectacle of four cruise ships on Sydney Harbourtomorrow as well as stunning fireworks in the evening, with the nation’slargest cruise line P&O Cruises joining in Australia Day celebrations inthe city.<?xml:namespace prefix="o" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"?>

TheP&O Cruises Fireworks display will light up the skies over the city at9.30pm, with the five-minute display happening east of Fort Denison.

FourP&O ships – Pacific Aria, Pacific Eden, Pacific Pearl and Pacific Jewel –will spend the day on the Harbour with more than 6500 guests onboard the shipsenjoying a day of festivities in the city.

MeanwhileChannel 7’s Sunrise show will broadcast live from Pacific Eden in the morninggiving all of Australia the opportunity to enjoy a front row seat on theHarbour.

Tomorrowwill be the first time P&O has had four ships on the harbour for AustraliaDay, and follows the expansion of the cruise line’s fleet to five ships lastNovember with the addition of Pacific Eden and Pacific Aria.

Amajor sponsor of Australia Day in NSW, P&O is also bringing a ship to land,giving Sydneysiders the chance to build a giant LEGO® ship in the city.

Thecruise line has joined forces with the Museum of Sydney to invite LEGO fans tohelp LEGO certified professional Ryan McNaught as he builds a model of P&O’sPacific Eden in the forecourt of the museum between 9am and 3pm tomorrow. A model of Pacific Eden’s sister ship,Pacific Aria, is already on display inside the museum as part of its stunning Sydney Harbour Icons with LEGO® Bricks exhibition.

Allfour P&O ships will berth in the Harbour between 4am and 9am. Pacific Pearland Pacific Eden will enjoy their day anchored at Point Piper and Athol Buoyrespectively as part of their three-night roundtrip Australia Day cruises fromSydney. Meanwhile, Pacific Jewel will beat White Bay Cruise Terminal as part of a four-night roundtrip cruise fromMelbourne, alongside Pacific Aria which is on a five-night roundtrip cruise fromBrisbane.

BothPacific Jewel and Pacific Aria will anchor east of the bridge near BradleysHead and Neutral Bay in the evening to enable their guests to enjoy thefireworks.

Thefour ships will sail from the Harbour after the fireworks display, with PacificAria the last to leave at about 11pm.

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 andAsia including 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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