Crystal Cruises has released its 2014 worldwide program, as well as a selection of 2015 voyages, to give forward planning guests a holiday head start. THE release marks the earliest that Crystal Cruises has ever launched its long-term future program to the cruising public. “It’s really quite an exciting time...
Crystal Cruises has released its
2014 worldwide program, as
well as a selection of 2015
voyages, to give forward planning
guests a holiday head start.
THE release marks the earliest that Crystal
Cruises has ever launched its long-term future
program to the cruising public.
“It’s really quite an exciting time for us,” said
Diane Patrick, md Wiltrans (GSA for Crystal
Cruises in Australia).
“The release is wonderful because it gives
travellers time, and if they’re only going to do
a cruise every couple of years, they’ve got that
information and they can plan accordingly,”
she added.
Overall the new program will see Crystal
Serenity and Crystal Symphony sail a grand
total of 61 voyages, which will take guests to
194 ports in 68 countries.
Serenity will start 2014 with a 13-day Panama
Canal cruise from Miami to Los Angeles on 05
Jan 2013, after which she will embark on an
epic 89-day World Voyage from Los Angeles to
Southampton (also available in five segments:
LA to Yokohama, Yokohama to Hong Kong,
Hong Kong to Singapore, Singapore to Cape
Town and Cape Town to London).
Highlights of the World Voyage include a
return to the West Coast of Africa, which Crystal
has not featured in its program for over five years.
Following the completion of her world
adventure in Apr 2014, Serenity will sail 15
voyages around the Mediterranean and
Western Europe, ranging in length between
seven- and 12-days, after which she will sail a
14-day Trans-Atlantic itinerary from London to
Boston, and then four 10-day Canada and New
England voyages and a seven-day Canada cruise.
In Nov Serenity will take her leave of Canada
and New England with a 14-day US East Coast
and Caribbean cruise from New York to Miami,
followed by two 11-day Panama Canal voyages
between Miami and Caldera.
Serenity will finish 2014 with two Caribbean
cruises departing roundtrip from Miami on 11
and 21 Dec.
Meanwhile Symphony will start 2014 closer
to home, with two 12-day South Pacific voyages;
a 12-day Australia and NZ cruise from Auckland
to Sydney departing 02 Feb; and a 14-day
Australia and Indonesia voyage from Sydney to
Bali on 16 Feb.
Between late Feb and Apr Symphony will be
positioned in Asia, with a series of Southeastern
14-day itineraries, as well as 10- and 13-day
China cruises, and 15- and 12-day China and
Japan voyages between Bejing and Tokyo.
In May she will depart Tokyo via a 15-day
Trans-Atlantic cruise to LA; followed by a 17-
day Panama Canal cruise between LA and New
York; and a 12-day transatlantic cruise from
New York to the Icelandic city of Reykjavik
departing on 01 Jun.
Between Jun and Sep Symphony will host Baltic
Sea & Russia, Northern Europe, North Cape &
Arctic Circle; British Isles and Western Europe
itineraries ranging in length from 15- to sevendays;
before she heads back to the Pacific for
an 11-day NZ cruise from Auckland to Sydney
on 13 Nov, a 13-day Sydney to Bali adventure
on 24 Nov, a 14-day Bali to Bangkok cruise
departing 07 Dec and a 15-day 21 Dec
Southeast Asia cruise roundtrip from Bangkok.
MEANWHILE registration is now open for guests
interested in Crystal Cruises 2015 World Cruise.
Designed to celebrate Crystal’s 20th World
Cruise as well as the company’s 25th
anniversary in 2015, the 108-day voyage will
depart Miami on 15 Jan 2015, and will sail
below the equator to South America, before
cruising to the Pacific, NZ, and Australia, then
on to Africa before returning to the Americas.
The commemorative cruise can be broken
into six sectors including: a 16-day Miami to
Lima South American cruise departing 15 Jan;
a 19-day Lima to Auckland voyage departing 31
Jan, taking in Easter Is, Pitcairn Is, Papeete,
Bora Bora, Rarotonga and Auckland; and a 21-
day Auckland to Perth cruise departing 20 Feb
and calling at Tauranga, Napier, Wellington,
Christchurch, Dunedin, Sydney, Melbourne,
Adelaide, Albany and Perth.
The sectors will also include a 21-day Perth
to Cape Town voyage departing 13 Mar;
followed by a 15-day Cape Town to Rio de
Janeiro cruise on 03 Apr; and will conclude
with a 16-day Rio to Miami cruise on 18 Apr.
For full details see www.wiltrans.com.au.
