Sad week for a Cruise Line …

This week we saw the announcement that sees the smallest and oldest ship departing from the P & O fleet!  Have you heard this news?  If not where have you been!

What are your initial thoughts?

Is this a good move for P & O??  This ship has been so popular in my 13 years of being in the travel industry for her size, being Adults only of course and her sheer branding of P & O themselves as a cruise line.   Why do we keep losing these smaller, older and traditional ships!

Of course, I appreciate we have to move along with the times and nowadays with the new ships that are coming out these are innovations in themselves alone with so many tech features on board and these are fascinating, breathtaking and unbelievable in some cases and P & O are certainly not shying away from this themselves with Iona joining the fleet in 2020 with another one following her in 2022, but are we not then losing the tradition of where cruising all started from by losing these timeless, smaller ships with so much history? She joined the fleet back in 1995! (WOW I WAS ONLY 10 BACK THEN!) Does this not mean anything! They have only really recently lost the Adonia to Azamara!

There have been so many rumours about where she will actually be after this and who with!! From the Australian to the Chinese market!

P & O Aurora will be making her move over to replace Oriana as an Adults only ship after she is revamped next Spring!  Will they be losing a great family ship? She will join Arcadia and will both offer the same feel on board as the Oriana once did!

Dont Miss out her last voyage with P & O will be on the Arctic Circle Voyage on the 22nd July 2019!  Read more about her move here