Regent flight packages

NORWEGIAN Cruise Line Holdings is introducing air packages on all of its brands, starting with all Regent Seven Seas Cruises departures from Apr.

The new Business Class Air Package can be added to a Regent cruise and will include: return Business class flights from all major Australian gateways with Emirates, Qantas or Singapore Airlines, one night pre-cruise hotel accom and transfers between the airport, hotel and the cruise ship.

The optional addition is priced at $4,440pp for the Tropical Asia 08 Mar 2019 departure on Seven Seas Navigator and $6,590pp for Seven Seas Explorer’s Northern Europe sailing on 25 Jul this year.

Steve Odell, md Asia Pacific of NCLH told Cruise Weekly the combo provided a “one-stop shop” for agents.

Odell expects the majority of Australians taking advantage of the package will be using it to fly to Europe, but emphasised it was available globally.

“Every cruise and every accommodation type has a Business class package price that can be applied to it,” he said.

Regent is offering agents 5% commission on the air package.

NCLH offered the packages for the Regent brand first as the timing worked with the launch of the 2018/19 program last week ( CW 31 Jan).

The release brings the total number of days Regent spends in Australian and New Zealand waters to 89 in 2018 and 43 through to May 2019.

This is a significant increase, as the line only spent two days locally in 2016 and will accumulate 60 days in 2017.

Marking the first big program launch since opening the office in Sydney, Odell said the line had several bookings for the 2019 world cruise out of Australia and New Zealand.

“People seem to take the cruise, drop off, go home for a couple of days and come back and sail the rest,” he explained.