Cruises and cruising
Posted in Big ships, Iona, P&O, P&O new ship on Jun 5th, 2018
Well, I was wrong – the new ship will not be called Olympia. As everyone knows by now, her name will be Iona. That’s a nice name, and it trips off the tongue, but of course there’s no echo of P&O heritage there at all. But never mind. P&O have issued a fly-around animation of […]
Posted in Bolsover Cruise Club, Olympia, P&O, P&O new ship on Apr 21st, 2018
It’s no secret that P&O are getting a new ship in 2020. She’ll be enormous – bigger than Britannia – but that’s the way things are going. I did a couple of posts some while ago with the first news about the new ship. First, there was this post with the details that had been […]
Posted in P&O, P&O new ship on Jan 29th, 2018
As I said in my last post, P&O have announced that they are to get another big new ship. This will be delivered in 2022, and will be a sister to the earlier big ship which is due in 2020. As yet, we have no details of either of them. However….. P&O being part of […]
Posted in P&O, P&O new ship on Jan 26th, 2018
P&O have announced that they are to get another new ship. This one will arrive in 2022, and will be a sister to the one that’s due in 2020. Malcolm Oliver spotted this news before me, so I think the best thing I can do is provide a link to the post on his blog. […]
Posted in P&O new ship on Oct 27th, 2016
P&O has announced some details about the 180,000 tom new ship that will be delivered in 2020. The following points were especially mentioned: there will be a “sky dome all-weather entertainment and casual dining venue” – could this mean a (possibly sliding) glass roof over the buffet? But it will need to be quite big […]
Posted in Carnival Corp, Cruises, Newbuilds, P&O new ship on Dec 31st, 2015
I did a post in early December commenting on the rumours that there was to be a new ship for P&O, and I suggested that while this wasn’t impossible, it wouldn’t happen before 2019. Since then Carnival Corporation have released some further details about the orders they made with Fincantieri in March this year (2015). […]
Posted in Carnival Corp, Newbuilds, P&O new ship on Dec 2nd, 2015
There’s been some speculation on the P&O Facebook group that P&O are to get another new ship. This is based on something told to a passenger at dinner by an officer; always a solid source of hard factual information! The story is that it will be at least as big as Britannia, possibly bigger. Well, […]
Posted in Britannia, P&O new ship, Royal Princess on Mar 19th, 2014
As I posted earlier, the complete deck plans for Britannia are now available. Here’s a link. I’ve been comparing them with the plans of Royal Princess, and below is a summary of the differences and similarities. I’ve been saying ever since this class was announced that Britannia would be very similar to the Princess ships, and […]
Posted in Britannia, P&O new ship on Sep 26th, 2013
Well, the hoopla has died down and it’s time to have a think about what the ship will offer. The truth is that as yet, we don’t have very much hard detail. Of course, Royal Princess exists, and as she’s the first ship in the same class as Britannia we can look at Royal Princess […]
Posted in Britannia, P&O new ship on Sep 24th, 2013
The new P&O ship will be called Britannia – I’ve just received the email from P&O. I’m glad they decided not to re-use Canberra,