After three years, Norwegian Cruise Line has returned to Australia. Norwegian Spirit sailed into Sydney Harbour in the present day for the primary time with with friends from over 20 nations on board.
Down Under, Norwegian Spirit will provide eight open-jaw sailings between December 2022 and March 2023 from Sydney and Auckland. Destinations will embody Napier, Tauranga, and Fiordland in New Zealand, together with Melbourne, Burnie, and Eden in Australia.
Starting in December 2023, the ship will return for a second homeporting season from Sydney and Auckland.
“We’re thrilled to finally welcome Norwegian Spirit to Australia – she is well and truly worth the wait,” stated Ben Angell, Vice President and Managing Director NCL, APAC.
In Sydney to welcome the ship, Norwegian Cruise Line president and CEO Harry Sommer stated “Australia and New Zealand are incredibly important markets for us, both as a source market and a destination, and we are committed to this region for the long term. I’m thrilled to be here in person to celebrate our return to Australia after a three-year hiatus, and to join the festivities as Norwegian Spirit spends an extended overnight visit in Sydney before she sets sail on her Christmas cruise tomorrow!”
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Guests on Norwegian Spirit‘s maiden Australia voyage, which departs tomorrow, have the opportunity to join a brand-first experience to give back in the coastal community of Eden, where NCL’s new associate group — Take 3 for the Sea — will host a seaside clean-up that friends can participate in. Visitors will head ashore on December twenty third with an knowledgeable Take 3 for the Sea information, eradicating trash from a seaside to help the group’s objective to take away 50 million items of plastic from the oceans by 2025.
The new shore tour initiative displays Norwegian Cruise Line and Take 3 for the Sea’s shared dedication to lowering single-use plastics, with friends inspired to “take 3” each time they go ashore in Australia and New Zealand throughout Norwegian Spirit‘s maiden season there.
Norwegian Spirit underwent a serious overhaul in 2020 and contains a spa with thermal suite, the adults-only Spice H2O pool retreat, and the Onda by Scarpetta specialty Italian restaurant.
Guests may count on to take pleasure in menu objects made with locally-sourced elements, together with barramundi, lamb, eggs, milk, yogurt, and fruit and greens. Local favorites like Vegemite, Weet Bix, Milo, Four’n Twenty sausage rolls, and Fountain mint sauce might be out there, serving to make Australian and New Zealand cruisers really feel particularly at dwelling on board.
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