Perks include reserved shaded spots, open bar with champagne, three-course lunch, a visit to the Pit Lane, seats in the higher part of Grandstand L and panoramic views of Monaco Port. Crystal Serenity will be in Monaco for two days, so guests can experience the Saturday qualifying and Sunday F1 racing events with exclusive VIP Belvedere hospitality, usually preferred by the Automobile Club Monaco VIPs. All crystal clear now? POLE POSITIONĬrystal Cruises' nine-night voyage from Barcelona to Rome, departing on May 22, 2020, is timed to take in the 78th Annual Monaco Grand Prix – in grand style. Astor is being renamed Jules Verne for CMV's French operation. Pacific Dawn, under its new name, will cruise year-round from Tilbury (London) alongside Columbus while Aria will be deployed in CMV's German branch, TransOcean, with Vasco da Gama and replacing Astor, which sailed out of Western Australia for several years. CMV's fleet capacity will also increase to about 9000, an increase of 30 per cent, with the addition of Pacific Dawn and Aria.ĬMV's 1150-passenger Vasco da Gama, which arrived in Sydney on December 1 for its first three-month season, is the former Pacific Eden, which sailed as Statendam for Holland America Line for 22 years until P&O took it over in 2015. Once in Singapore the two ships, will be updated with CMV's livery and will then head to Northern Europe, where they will join six other CMV ships.īy the end of 2021, when Pacific Encounter has joined P&O, the line will have a total capacity of about 9000 passengers. Pacific Dawn's last cruise for P&O will be on February 8, 2021, from Melbourne to Singapore, and Pacific Aria will follow the same route on April 9, 2021. P&O Cruises recently announced that it is selling Pacific Dawn and Pacific Aria to Cruise & Maritime Voyages (CMV), to make way for the incoming 2636-passenger Pacific Adventure and 3000-passenger Pacific Encounter in 20 – which are now sailing for Princess Cruises as Golden Princess and Star Princess. Sometimes it's hard to keep up with the movement of ships from one fleet to another.

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