OCEANIA Cruises has revealed details of its Europe & The Americas 2019 Collection of itineraries, which will open for sale on 19 Oct in Australia and New Zealand.
The program packs in a whopping 104 itineraries, 80 of which are new, including 40 new options in the Mediterranean, 18 in the Baltic, Scandinavia & Northern Europe, five in Alaska, six in Canada and New England and 10 in the tropics.
Itineraries range from seven to 44 days in length and more than 85 overnights and late departures are included.
Steve McLaughlin, vp sales Australia and New Zealand, Oceania Cruises told CW the new additions had been driven by what customers were looking for and provided a more in-depth experience of Europe.
“You’re not travelling vast distances to take in all of the key tick-box places that the bigger ships do, we’re actually taking a little more time, staying later in port and going less distance overnight,” he explained.
While the Med is far from a new destination for Oceania, more than half of the new itineraries are in the region, aided by new ports being made available to the line due to the size of its ships.
“One of the things we’re seeing is with this more port-intensive opportunity we’re actually bringing people back who have possibly even been in the region before to see some of these newer destinations that we’re getting into,” he said.
The program offered combinable voyages, which had proven popular with the line’s Australian travellers in the past, who often bundled together two back-to-back voyages, McLaughlin added.
