The Day the (cruise) Music Died

CRUISECO’S long-running partnership with music cruise specialists Choose Your Cruise (CYC) is over, after a decade of jointly welcoming thousands of music lovers aboard the highly successful series of festivals at sea.

Having operated together since 2011, the annual events have included the popular Bravo, Cruise n Groove, Cruisin’ Country, and Rock the Boat voyages, generally involving full charters of Royal Caribbean International (RCI) vessels.

The change follows the recent acquisition of Cruiseco by Helloworld (CW 24 Feb), with an update to members of the consortium yesterday advising “Cruiseco will no longer wholesale Music Cruises in 2022”.

“We have had a long association with CYC but we couldn’t come to an agreement that worked for both CYC and Cruiseco,” Helloworld told travel agents.

In addition, the previously planned 2021 Music Super Cruise has been postponed for another 12 months due to the ongoing uncertainty relating to COVID-19 travel restrictions.

Previously, Cruiseco and CYC had planned a major collaboration on the Super Cruise, which involved a seven night charter of RCI’s Ovation of the

Seas playing host to both the Cruisin’ Country and Rock the Boat roster of top musicians (CW 31 Jul 2020).

The itinerary had been planned to operate from Sydney from 23-30 Nov this year, and had also been opened up for sale through all travel agencies in Australia (CW 21 Sep 2020), rather than just Cruiseco members.

Cruiseco’s update said that CYC had “come to the difficult decision to postpone Super Cruise 2021 to 2022, with a new sailing date set for 09 Nov 2022” (pictured).

Ovation will still be used for the ex-Sydney voyage, and all headline performers and the majority of musicians from the original line-up will return.

All currently booked passengers on Super Cruise 2021 will automatically transfer to the new date, and if clients are unable to travel, a Future Cruise Credit for 2023 can be issued upon request.

During the process of transferring existing bookings onto the new sailing, no new booking requests for 2022 will be processed, but pre-registrations can be lodged by CLICKING HERE.

With Cruiseco splitting from CYC, all client funds have been transferred to CYC who also have access to client booking data and the manifests.

CYC will be able to handle all questions regarding current and future client bookings via phone on 08 8277 3444 or email to sales@chooseyourcruise.com.au.