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Cunard unveils firsts for 2016 world voyages
Cunard has confirmed maiden visits to Kangaroo Island, Adelaide and Newcastle and Queen Victoria’s first roundtrip cruise from Sydney for its 2016 world voyage programme.
On sale from September 5, the programme will see the three Cunard Queens – Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth – make history by departing Southampton on the same day.
All three will leave the UK port on January 10 2016 and return together on May 10 2016 after completing their world voyages.
Queen Victoria’s world voyage will also include an eight-night roundtrip cruise from Sydney, visiting Hobart and Melbourne and making the cruise line’s maiden call to South Australia’s Kangaroo Island.
Meanwhile, Queen Elizabeth will make her maiden call in the New South Wales’ city of Newcastle on February 22, 2016, less than a week after her inaugural call to Adelaide on February 16.
Other highlights of her East-West voyage include a 20-night roundtrip cruise from Hong Kong throughout Asia.
Departing March 10, 2016, the cruise will visit 10 exotic destinations including Shanghai, South Korea and Taiwan, plus six ports in Japan during the nation’s Cherry Blossom season.
Queen Mary 2 will make history on her world voyage with her first visits to 11 ports including calls to tropical Papeete and Moorea in Tahiti and mystical Halong Bay in Vietnam.
All three ships will visit Sydney and Brisbane as they head north to Hong Kong with holidaymakers able to choose from three different routes from Australia to the Chinese city: via Papua New Guinea and the Philippines with Queen Elizabeth, taking in Malaysia and Shanghai with Queen Mary 2 and via Bali, Brunei and Vietnam with Queen Victoria.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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