RESORTS World Cruises (RWC) will charter a second ship Explorer Dream to operate its short cruises to nowhere from Hong Kong, starting in Mar. Explorer was most recently operated by the now-defunct Dream Cruises (CW 01 Mar 2022), and will now be charted by RWC from an unknown buyer, and...
RESORTS World Cruises (RWC) will charter a second ship Explorer Dream to operate its short cruises to nowhere from Hong Kong, starting in Mar.
Explorer was most recently operated by the now-defunct Dream Cruises (CW 01 Mar 2022), and will now be charted by RWC from an unknown buyer, and renamed Resorts World One.
She will sail two- and three-night cruises from Hong Kong on a Fri, Sun, and Wed rotation from 10 Mar.
One will also replace RWC’s first ship Genting Dream, another former Dream ship, on her two- and three-night sailngs from 17 Feb to 01 Mar, as she dry docks for routine maintenance.
RWC has been sailing from Singapore and Port Klang since last Jun and Jul respectively with Genting, which it charters from a consortium of banks which acquired the ship in 2020.
One is now expected to become the first cruise ship to homeport in Hong Kong since 05 Jan 2022 when local officials imposed widespread measures to stem the spread of COVID-19.
Before that, cruises to nowhere carrying only locals had been operating for half a year, starting in Jul 2021 with Dream and Royal Caribbean International (CW 03 Aug 2021).
It has not been all smooth sailing since RWC’s start however, with a number of passengers unable to board Genting late last year after the cruise line overbooked one of its cruises (CW 14 Sep 2022).
