CRUISE NEWS IN BRIEF

SILVERSEA’S first ‘wine voyage’ of 2019 will see

Silver Whisper departing Auckland on January 20, arriving into Sydney on February 2. As well as choosing from up to 160 onboard wines, guests will enjoy a half-day tour of Gisborne’s wine region

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EUROPEAN Waterways says it has availability on October barge holidays. For example, guests on the eightpassenger Anjodi, cruising the Canal du Midi, can get 10% off cabin bookings on the October 14 and 21 sailings, priced from £2,835pp.

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SALES for Iona, the latest P&O ship, go on sale on September 3. In its inaugural season, beginning May 2020,

Iona will sail the Norwegian fjords on seven-day cruises, departing Southampton.

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UNIWORLD’S River Royale will go out of service in October before reappearing on the Dordogne and Garonne rivers next April as

S.S. Bon Voyage, the cruise line’s sixth ‘super ship’.

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