Holland America Line’s Westerdam arrived at Sydney, Australia, the primary ship from the cruise line to go to the town since previous to the business pause greater than two years in the past. Westerdam will start a sequence of Australia and New Zealand cruises following a journey that started Oct. 2 from Seattle. The complete 36-day Pacific Ocean cruise included calls in Hawaii and the South Pacific, with friends disembarking in Sydney Nov. 8.
“We’re excited to be crusing once more Down Underneath to offer an immersive, premium cruise expertise for friends from world wide,” mentioned Gus Antorcha, president, Holland America Line. “Our return to cruise operations within the area additionally means a optimistic enhance to the native economic system with tour and resort actions, provisioning and port operations.
Westerdam will homeport out of Sydney for a part of the 2022-23 Australian and New Zealand wave season. Company who wish to discover the southern areas of the continent and New Zealand can embark on a cruise aboard Westerdam by means of early January, with 13- and 14-day voyages. A particular Vacation Cruise departs Dec. 20 and spends Christmas and New 12 months’s in a number of the most lovely ports round New Zealand.
Westerdam can be joined in Australia by Noordam, which gives Holland America Line’s unbelievable Australia Circumnavigation. The ship will circle the continent on a 35-day voyage, with 14 calls round Australia, overnights at Fremantle (Perth) and Melbourne, and memorable scenic cruising within the famed Nice Barrier Reef. The ship then sails between Sydney and Auckland, New Zealand, or roundtrip from Sydney on 12- to 16-day cruises that discover New Zealand.
This can be Westerdam’s first season in Australia and New Zealand, and the primary time since 2016 that Holland America Line has positioned two ships cruising concurrently across the area.
For vacationers who wish to head to Australia from a handy North America homeport with out the necessity for worldwide air or a fast flight from Canada, the 2024 Grand Australia and New Zealand Voyage is again in 2024. The 94-day journey that’s been greater than 10 years within the making departs Jan. 3, 2024, aboard Volendam, crusing round-trip from San Diego, California.
