The Australian small-ship line
has announced its 2013
schedule, including an inaugural
expedition to the Spice Islands
and New Guinea.
NEXT year, Coral Princess Cruises’ 72-
passenger Oceanic Discoverer will spend
almost a month exploring the remote regions
of Indonesia and PNG.
Departing from Darwin, the new 25-night
itinerary covers the Tanimbar and Spice
Islands before a five-day exploration of the
‘Four Kings’ of Raja Ampat.
The cruise continues into the Northern
Hemisphere and Mapia Atoll and then returns
to the West Papuan provincial capital of
Jayapura, and onwards to Wewak.
Exclusive to Coral Princess Cruises, guests
will spend two nights cruising 100 kilometres
up the Sepik River, before exploring the east
coast of Papua New Guinea, including
Lababia, Tufi and the Trobriand Islands.
According to Coral Princess Cruises Founder
and Managing Director, Tony Briggs, who
recently returned from a fact-finding visit to
the area, the new program is “the most
comprehensive expedition ever undertaken in
the region”, and the company’s “most
ambitious yet.”
“I’m excited that this expedition enables
guests to experience one of the world’s
emerging regions, in the comfort and
unrivalled style they have come to expect
from a Coral Princess Cruises expedition,”
Briggs said.
Prices for the ‘Spice Islands, Raja Ampat and
New Guinea’ circle expedition start at $18,990
per person.
A limited number of staterooms are also
available on a shorter 13-night leg from
Darwin to Wewak and a 12-night itinerary
from Wewak to Cairns.
The company’s newly released 2012-13
brochure also includes a series of PNG
expeditions from Cairns and Rabaul, as well as
two 13-night itineraries through the
Melanesian archipelagos of New Caledonia,
Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands and PNG.
To celebrate the brochure launch, Coral
Princess Cruises is offering discounts of up to
25% for past guests, or 15% for first-time
travellers on their 13-night Melanesian
expedition from Rabaul to Noumea, departing
on 11 November 2012.
Prices start at $8,242.50pp for past guests.
For a limited time, single travellers are also
being offered the opportunity to join the
same expedition without the need to pay a
single supplement.
To book, call 1800 079 545 or visit
www.coralprincess.com.au.
