Cruise Weekly

Seabourn 2023-2024

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SEABOURN Cruise Line has earlier this week unveiled its new 2023-2024 itinerarie­s for Seabourn Encore (pictured) and Seabourn Odyssey.

New cruises are now available for booking aboard both Encore and Odyssey, with the latter ship to explore Australia between Nov 2023 and Feb 2024.

Odyssey will offer a series of 15day voyages from Sydney, some travelling round trip and others travelling to Auckland.

Destinatio­ns include Port Lincoln, where adventurou­s cruisers can snorkel with sea lions and cage dive with great white sharks, or view the action from a distance at Glen-Forest Tourist Park & Vineyard.

Cruisers can also visit Disaster Bay lookout, where they can birdwatch across picturesqu­e Eden.

Overseas destinatio­ns from Australia include Christchur­ch in New Zealand, as well as Fiordland National Park, which includes a visit to Milford Sound.

Meanwhile, Encore’s season begins in Arabia and India, with four voyages departing in Nov and Dec 2023.

Encore will sail 18 days from Athens to Dubai, departing 19 Nov 2023, visiting Egypt, as well as including Aqaba, where cruisers can visit Petra, the historic archaeolog­ical city in southern Jordan.

There is also a 16-day voyage from Dubai to Singapore departing 07 Dec 2023 which visits Sir Bani Yas and the Arabia Wildlife Park, and Kochi, which is known as the “Yueen of the Arabian Sea”.

Encore will return to the region in Mar and Apr 2024 to reprise a number of these voyages, after she has journeyed to Asia on four voyages ranging from 14 to 32 days from Dec 2023 to Mar 2024.

The first of the two fortnightl­y voyages will round trip from Singapore, where cruisers will celebrate the holiday season with an overnight on New Year’s Eve in Ho Chi Minh City.

Encore will also visit Port Klang, from where cruisers can visit Kuala Lumpur and the Batu Caves.

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