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  • Parintins & the legend of Boi Bumba

    Parintins & the legend of Boi Bumba

    An Amazon cruise provides an incredible opportunity to explore the fascinating Amazon River, where the people, culture and exotic wildlife never fail to inspire. Our series of blogs provide an idea of what to expect during your stay at the three river ports you will experience on your Amazon cruise. Nothing can prepare you for the beauty and sheer vastness of the Amazon

  • Caiman spotting in Manaus

    Caiman spotting in Manaus

    An Amazon cruise provides an incredible opportunity to explore the fascinating Amazon River, where the people, culture and exotic wildlife never fail to inspire. Our series of blogs provide an idea of what to expect during your stay at the three river ports you will experience on your Amazon cruise.

  • Santarem, Piranha Fishing & the Meeting of the Waters

    Santarem, Piranha Fishing & the Meeting of the Waters

    An Amazon cruise provides an incredible opportunity to explore the fascinating Amazon River, where the people, culture and exotic wildlife never fail to inspire. Our series of blogs provide an idea of what to expect during your stay at the three river ports you will experience on your Amazon cruise.

  • Book your ‘All-Inclusive Holiday’ in 2014/15  with Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines

    Book your ‘All-Inclusive Holiday’ in 2014/15 with Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines

    Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has launched a new brochure, called 'All-Inclusive Holidays', targeted specifically at the 'yet to cruise' market. The brochure has simple, all-inclusive pricing, based on one cabin type, and tackles some of the perceived challenges of cruise head on, using more familiar mainstream cruise vocabulary, such as 'Ocean View Room', rather than 'Outside Cabin'.

  • The ‘Twelve Days of Mystery’ with Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines!

    The ‘Twelve Days of Mystery’ with Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines!

    Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is offering guests something completely new and different in 2014…its first-ever ‘Mystery Cruise'! Departing from Tilbury on 15th November 2014 for 14 nights – on Fred. Olsen's inaugural turnaround call at this Essex port – the mystery is where in the world Black Watch will take you?

  • Join ‘Best Affordable Cruise Line’ Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines at the Telegraph Cruise Show 2014, ExCeL, London – 10th / 11th/ 12th January 2014, Stand 320

    Join ‘Best Affordable Cruise Line’ Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines at the Telegraph Cruise Show 2014, ExCeL, London – 10th / 11th/ 12th January 2014, Stand 320

    Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines – voted ‘Best Affordable Cruise Line’ and runner-up ‘Best Cruise Line’ in the prestigious ‘Cruise International Awards 2013’ – will have a team of experts on hand at the Telegraph Cruise Show, to be held at ExCeL in London on Friday 10th, Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th January 2014, ready to inspire and inform visitors on the right kind of Fred. Olsen cruise for them.

  • Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines releases new Balmoral itineraries for 2015

    Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines releases new Balmoral itineraries for 2015

    Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has unveiled a selection of its new 2015 itineraries on board Balmoral, which are on sale now. The new 2015 cruises include top-rated ports, exciting new destinations and an even greater number of fascinating shore excursions than ever before.

  • Fred. Olsen becomes Official Cruise and Travel Partner  of Ipswich Town Football Club

    Fred. Olsen becomes Official Cruise and Travel Partner of Ipswich Town Football Club

    Ipswich-based Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines and Fred. Olsen Travel are delighted to announce that they have become Official Cruise and Travel Partner to Ipswich Town Football Club (ITFC). As well as giving Town supporters discounts on holidays, cruises and sporting trips, such as match breaks and an official supporters' trip on pre-season tour, this two-year deal will benefit ITFC directly.

  • Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines extends a warm welcome to solo travellers with attractive offers in its 2014/15 ‘Solo Cruising’ campaign

    Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines extends a warm welcome to solo travellers with attractive offers in its 2014/15 ‘Solo Cruising’ campaign

    Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines – voted as ‘the line most committed to keeping the solo traveller happy’ by cruise experts at influential consumer website Cruise Critic in its ‘Editors' Picks Awards 2011’ – has launched a new ‘Solo Cruising’ brochure, offering significant discounts to solo travellers on a selection of 38 exciting singles cruises in 2014/15, valid on bookings up to 28th February 2014.

  • Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines offers guests new free ‘door-to-door’ transport service on longer 2014/15 cruises

    Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines offers guests new free ‘door-to-door’ transport service on longer 2014/15 cruises

    As part of its new ‘Turn of Year’ sales campaign, award-winning Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is offering guests on longer-duration 2014/15 cruises a complimentary ‘door-to-door’ transport service. The initiative, which is available on bookings made up to 28th February 2014, will be applicable on a selection of 21 cruises in 2014/15, for guests who live within 250 miles of the departure port*.

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