P&O Cruises Australia Closing Down

[Cruising Caribbean]

Unfortunately P&O Cruises Australia will be closing down and will be absorbed into CCL. Many P&O Cruises Australia itineraries have been canceled due to this brand dissolving. Pacific Explorer is the last of the fleet to be transferred to Carnival Caribbean Line, after a February 2025 sailing slated to disembark in Singapore. Lots of rebranding and refurbishing will take place upon the ships transferring to CCL. Was anyone impacted by these changes? P&O Cruises Australia was surely a great brand! 

[Emrys]

On 6/7/2024 at 4:10 PM, Cruising Caribbean said:

Unfortunately P&O Cruises Australia will be closing down and will be absorbed into CCL. Many P&O Cruises Australia itineraries have been canceled due to this brand dissolving. Pacific Explorer is the last of the fleet to be transferred to Carnival Caribbean Line, after a February 2025 sailing slated to disembark in Singapore. Lots of rebranding and refurbishing will take place upon the ships transferring to CCL. Was anyone impacted by these changes? P&O Cruises Australia was surely a great brand! 

I actually had a feeling that Carnival would do something about one of its P&O brands. It can't be nice for those down under, but I can certainly see why Carnival decided to do this.

[Kendall James-Vargas]

@Emrys Your feeling was correct! Thankfully there are other good options from cruising in/out of Australia. It's a shame this P&O brand has to go, but I can imagine Carnival has big plans. I never had the opportunity to cruise P&O Cruises Australia, but I'm hopeful other brands will still offer magnificent itineraries to the land down under. Apparently Australia's cruise industry is expecting lots of growth! The area's cruise guest capacity is up by 24% over 2023, and that's a pretty significant jump.