After three years, Norwegian Cruise Line has returned to Australia. Norwegian Spirit sailed into Sydney Harbour as we speak for the primary time with with friends from over 20 international locations on board.
Down Below, Norwegian Spirit will provide eight open-jaw sailings between December 2022 and March 2023 from Sydney and Auckland. Locations will embody Napier, Tauranga, and Fiordland in New Zealand, together with Melbourne, Burnie, and Eden in Australia.
Beginning in December 2023, the ship will return for a second homeporting season from Sydney and Auckland.
“We’re thrilled to lastly welcome Norwegian Spirit to Australia – she is effectively and actually well worth the wait,” mentioned Ben Angell, Vice President and Managing Director NCL, APAC.
In Sydney to welcome the ship, Norwegian Cruise Line president and CEO Harry Sommer mentioned “Australia and New Zealand are extremely vital markets for us, each as a supply market and a vacation spot, and we’re dedicated to this area for the long run. I’m thrilled to be right here in particular person to have a good time our return to Australia after a three-year hiatus, and to hitch the festivities as Norwegian Spirit spends an prolonged in a single day go to in Sydney earlier than she units sail on her Christmas cruise tomorrow!”
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Visitors on Norwegian Spirit‘s maiden Australia voyage, which departs tomorrow, have the chance to hitch a brand-first expertise to provide again within the coastal group of Eden, the place NCL’s new companion group — Take 3 for the Sea — will host a seashore clean-up that friends can participate in. Guests will head ashore on December twenty third with an professional Take 3 for the Sea information, eradicating trash from a seashore to assist the group’s objective to take away 50 million items of plastic from the oceans by 2025.
The brand new shore tour initiative displays Norwegian Cruise Line and Take 3 for the Sea’s shared dedication to decreasing single-use plastics, with friends inspired to “take 3” each time they go ashore in Australia and New Zealand throughout Norwegian Spirit‘s maiden season there.
Norwegian Spirit underwent a significant overhaul in 2020 and includes a spa with thermal suite, the adults-only Spice H2O pool retreat, and the Onda by Scarpetta specialty Italian restaurant.
Visitors may also anticipate to take pleasure in menu objects made with locally-sourced elements, together with barramundi, lamb, eggs, milk, yogurt, and fruit and greens. Native favorites like Vegemite, Weet Bix, Milo, 4’n Twenty sausage rolls, and Fountain mint sauce can be accessible, serving to make Australian and New Zealand cruisers really feel particularly at house on board.
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