Celebrity Cruises Introduces Australia Cruisetours |
MIAMI, July 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Like Australia's native
boomerang, Celebrity Cruises' guests can return for more of the land "down
under" the minute they step off the ship, with enticing new cruisetours
offered during Celebrity's first season in the region beginning in November
2007.
Celebrity Cruisetours pair a Celebrity cruise through New Zealand and
Australia with a land-based vacation experience either before or after the
cruise. Guests can choose to enhance their vacation down under with one of
two packages featuring some of the region's most extraordinary locations
not visited on the cruise journey, including the marine wonderland of the
Great Barrier Reef and the giant red monolith known as Ayers Rock.
Offered out of Sydney, the three-night cruisetour experience features
one night in Sydney, followed by two nights in Cairns. While in Cairns,
guests will be treated to a tour of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park,
renowned for its incredibly clear waters, abundant marine life and
spectacular coral formations. Guests also will participate in an authentic
Australian crocodile adventure in tropical North Queensland.
The five-night land-based portion of the adventure combines one night
in Sydney, two nights in Ayers Rock and two nights in the picturesque
seaside village of Port Douglas.
While in Port Douglas, guests will travel to the Great Barrier Reef
Marine Park, as well as participate in the authentic, tropical crocodile
adventure highlighted by a "crocodile attack" show.
The experience at Ayers Rock includes a private sightseeing tour in the
desert featuring the "Olgas," a series of massive, brightly colored domed
rocks rising from the plains; an Aboriginal tour retracing the path of Liru
ancestors through the bush, and the "Sounds of Silence" private dining
experience in the desert, complete with champagne, a native barbeque
dinner, and an astronomer's presentation of the southern night skies.
Both of Celebrity's new Australia and New Zealand Cruisetour packages
are now open for bookings.
All Celebrity Australia and New Zealand Cruisetours include in their
land portions fully escorted tours, some meals, four-star hotel
accommodations, and all transportation, including transfers to and from the
ship and airport, as well as flights between destinations. Ample time also
has been built in for guests to independently shop, dine, sightsee or
relax.
The seagoing companion to Celebrity's new Cruisetours -- Celebrity's
Mercury -- will present six 14-night open-jaw sailings between Auckland,
New Zealand, and Sydney, Australia, from December 2007 through March 2008.
Among the line's new destinations are Auckland, Tauranga, Napier,
Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Dusky Sound, Doubtful Sound, and Milford
Sound, New Zealand, along with Melbourne, Newcastle, and Sydney, Australia,
and Hobart, Tasmania.
Celebrity Cruises offers a comfortably sophisticated, upscale cruise
experience with highly personalized service, authentic five-star dining,
and extraordinary attention to detail. Its nine ships and the line's
service, cuisine and spas consistently dominate top travelers' surveys.
Celebrity sails in Alaska, Bermuda, California, the Caribbean, Europe, the
Galapagos Islands, Hawaii, the Mexican Riviera, the Panama Canal and South
America. For more information, call your travel agent, dial 1-800-437-3111,
or visit the Celebrity web site at http://www.celebrity.com .
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