P&O Cruises brings £10 million to the City of Southampton with January world cruises

P&O Cruises - 05.01.2012

Collectively the four cruises will visit 148 ports of call and highlights include overnight stays in Buenos Aires, New Orleans, Sydney and Cape Town and scenic cruising in the Amazon, Cape Horn, Beagle Channel and the Amalia Glacier.

All four ships will be flying the 175th Anniversary flag as P&O Cruises kicks off a full year of celebrations to mark the 175th anniversary of when the Peninsular Steam Navigation Company was formed.

World cruises offer unrivalled value for money with prices for the 2012 itineraries starting at £82 per person per night, including all meals, entertainment and accommodation on board.

World cruises are increasingly seen as the ideal way to travel the world in comfort and style and more than 6,000 people will be setting sail with P&O Cruises, collectively consuming more than 1,636,600 cups of tea, 3,200,000 sachets of sugar; 21,700 lobsters and 66,000 cocktails.

The four 2012 world cruises are:

• Aurora, 98-night westabout full world circumnavigation departs Wednesday January 4 2012
• Oriana, 97-night eastabout full world circumnavigation departs Thursday January 5 2012
• Arcadia, 109-night Grand Odyssey departs Monday January 9 2012
• Adonia, 87-night South America Grand Adventure departs Friday January 13 2012

Editor’s notes
*Point 6.10 of the Atkins 2011 report on the economic impact of the Port of Southampton states that on average the Southampton cruise sector generates £2.5 million per cruise ship homeport turnaround

About P&O Cruises
P&O Cruises can trace its roots back to 1837 and 2012 will mark the 175th anniversary of when the Peninsular Steam Navigation Company was awarded the lucrative Admiralty contract to carry mail to the Iberian Peninsula and beyond. Not long afterwards the concept of cruising was born and since then has evolved into a popular holiday choice. Today, as trusted cruise experts, P&O Cruises has a fleet of seven ships offering holidays tailored to British tastes combining genuine service, a sense of occasion and attention to detail, ensuring passengers have the holiday of a lifetime, every time. Azura was launched in April 2010 – officially named by Godmother Darcey Bussell CBE. Small ship Adonia was added to the fleet in May 2011, named by Dame Shirley Bassey, DBE, and a new 141,000 ton as yet unnamed ship will be added to the fleet in spring 2015.

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