The Ovation of the Seas, Mariner of the Seas and Voyager of the Seas
will be back in Singapore from this October to next May to offer Royal
Caribbean International’s longest-ever homeporting season at Marina Bay,
which will run for eight months totalling 55 cruises and expected to
bring an estimated 200,000 guests to ports in Southeast Asia.
The
deployment of these three ships will increase Royal Caribbean’s
capacity in 2017 in Southeast Asia by 30 percent over 2016. Ovation will
also sail in Australia.
To kick start the season is Mariner of
the Seas from this October with 39 sailings until next March, ranging
from three to seven nights to popular destinations such as Penang,
Langkawi, Kuala Lumpur (Port Klang), Phuket, Bangkok (Laem Chabang) and
Ho Chi Minh City (Phu My). The new itineraries for the season are the
3-night Penang Weekend Cruise which will feature night touring and the
4-night Phuket Cruise.
The Ovation of the Seas which was in
Singapore in June, will be back in March to April 2017 with a total of
10 new sailings, comprising three to five nights to Penang, Phuket,
Bangkok (Laem Chabang) and a 12-night one-way cruise to Tianjin with
calls at Ho Chi Minh City (Phu My) for an overnight, Hue/Danang (Chan
May), Hong Kong and Seoul (Incheon).
Following this will be
Voyager of the Seas returning in May 2017 to offer six sailings of three
to five night Southeast Asian itineraries to Kuala Lumpur (Port Klang),
Penang, Phuket and an 8-night one-way cruise to Hong Kong, with
stopovers at Bangkok (Laem Chabang) for an overnight, Ho Chi Minh City
(Phu My) and Nha Trang.
Source: Cruise Industry News