The UK-based Fred Olsen Cruise Lines opened for booking schedule 2024-2025, featuring specially-timed voyages to coincide with natural wonders/destination events, opportunities to encounter native wildlife/uncover rich histories across the planet. Among those are meteor showers, wildlife viewing (bird migrations, polar bears), participation in the world’s second-largest carnival (in Santa Cruz de Tenerife).
Available on Fred Olsen's website, the new program for the first time (since 2019) includes a "Mystery Cruise" (11-night itinerary without scheduled call ports) departing roundtrip from Southampton (England UK) in November 2024. Passengers will be able to follow in the footsteps of explorers, seafarers, and navigators as they guess their next call port.
Continuing their commitment to sailing from regional ports in the UK, Fred. Olsen offers departures from Dover, Liverpool, Newcastle, Portsmouth, Rosyth, and Southampton in 2024 & 2025.
The line unveiled a number of offers to celebrate the launch, with up to GBP 150 per person to spend onboard on sailings of 5-12 nights; the choice of up to GBP 250 per person in onboard spending credit/free door-to-door transfers within up to 250 mainland miles of the port on sailings of 13-32 nights, plus a series of offers for solo travelers.
Highlights of Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines’ 2024-2025 program include:
Balmoral’s 5-night ‘Springtime Norwegian Fjords in Five Nights’ cruise from Newcastle (May 23rd, 2024). Prices start from GBP 799 per person.
Borealis’ 14-night ‘Maritime Cities & Sailing Events of the Baltic’ cruise from Dover (June 27th, 2024). Prices start from GBP 2,099 per person.
Bolette’s 27-night ‘Discovering the Arctic’s Wildlife and Remote Landscapes’ cruise from Liverpool (July 19th, 2024). Prices start from GBP 3,799 per person.
Balmoral’s 15-night ‘Portugal’s Islands in Search of the Meteor Shower’ cruise from Rosyth (August 7th, 2024). Prices start from GBP 2,299 per person.
Bolette’s 11-night T2420 ‘Spain, Portugal and the Spectacular Bird Migration’ cruise from Liverpool (September 1st, 2024). Prices start from GBP 1,599 per person.