Big Kev Posted October 29, 2018 #1 Share Posted October 29, 2018 Great News for Melbournians !!!!!!! WELCOMING ECLIPSE TO MELBOURNE IN 2020 Open your world in summer 2020 with Celebrity Eclipse®, homeporting in Melbourne for the first time. Arriving in Melbourne fresh from her multi-million dollar modernisation as part of the Celebrity RevolutionSM, Eclipse will join sister ship Celebrity Solstice® sailing Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. With over 9 sailings departing from Melbourne, ranging from 8 to 19 nights you’ll be spoilt for choice. And with Melbourne round-trips you won’t even have to fly to enjoy the highlights of stunning New Zealand on an award-winning, modern luxury ship. On sale 7th November 2018. .... Sue and Phil . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rare Redking Posted October 29, 2018 #3 Share Posted October 29, 2018 Anyone know where she is prior the Asia repo? She is in South America until March 2020. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruiseCriticAUeditor Posted October 29, 2018 #4 Share Posted October 29, 2018 Here's some details: https://www.cruisecritic.com.au/news/news.cfm?ID=8959 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Redking Posted October 29, 2018 #5 Share Posted October 29, 2018 22 minutes ago, Big Kev said: Great News for Melbournians !!!!!!! WELCOMING ECLIPSE TO MELBOURNE IN 2020 Open your world in summer 2020 with Celebrity Eclipse®, homeporting in Melbourne for the first time. Arriving in Melbourne fresh from her multi-million dollar modernisation as part of the Celebrity RevolutionSM, Eclipse will join sister ship Celebrity Solstice® sailing Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. With over 9 sailings departing from Melbourne, ranging from 8 to 19 nights you’ll be spoilt for choice. And with Melbourne round-trips you won’t even have to fly to enjoy the highlights of stunning New Zealand on an award-winning, modern luxury ship. On sale 7th November 2018. .... Sue and Phil . Great news. A long time coming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MicCanberra Posted October 29, 2018 #6 Share Posted October 29, 2018 Great news, hopefully it will have some good itineraries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUT2407 Posted October 29, 2018 #7 Share Posted October 29, 2018 So many Melb-Melb round trips, yet Solstice has had so few Syd-Syd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icat2000 Posted October 29, 2018 #8 Share Posted October 29, 2018 Happy dance. Happy dance. Happy dance. Happy dance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icat2000 Posted October 29, 2018 #9 Share Posted October 29, 2018 (edited) Wish they had told us the port stops. Edited October 29, 2018 by icat2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MicCanberra Posted October 30, 2018 #10 Share Posted October 30, 2018 32 minutes ago, icat2000 said: Wish they had told us the port stops. They will eventually, next week I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Big_M Posted October 30, 2018 #11 Share Posted October 30, 2018 2 hours ago, GUT2407 said: So many Melb-Melb round trips, yet Solstice has had so few Syd-Syd That season, Solstice has even more for Sydney than above for Melbourne - 11! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MicCanberra Posted October 30, 2018 #12 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Good to know, GUT prefers the Syd-Syd cruises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Big_M Posted October 30, 2018 #13 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Yes, makes things easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangogulf Posted October 30, 2018 #14 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Different home port but same old tired itineraries. What about more of the islands even PNG. Whilst Melbournian cruisers I’m sure will be happy isnt this just going to take demand away from Solstice? Also a sister ship to Solstice with not many differences. Can’t see the point really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MicCanberra Posted October 30, 2018 #15 Share Posted October 30, 2018 28 minutes ago, tangogulf said: Different home port but same old tired itineraries. What about more of the islands even PNG. Whilst Melbournian cruisers I’m sure will be happy isnt this just going to take demand away from Solstice? Also a sister ship to Solstice with not many differences. Can’t see the point really. Depends on the pricing, it may be taking demand away from the other lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icat2000 Posted October 30, 2018 #16 Share Posted October 30, 2018 It take an extra 4 days to get up to PNG and back plus the normal stops. I guess for their first time around they wanted to test the market. I wish they would have made some runs up to Perth and back out of Melbourne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Big_M Posted October 30, 2018 #17 Share Posted October 30, 2018 5 hours ago, tangogulf said: Different home port but same old tired itineraries. What about more of the islands even PNG. Whilst Melbournian cruisers I’m sure will be happy isnt this just going to take demand away from Solstice? Also a sister ship to Solstice with not many differences. Can’t see the point really. Celebrity is mass market; they're not going to go to off beat destinations. They don't take risks like that. As for the point, they feel there's enough room to grow here i.e. demand and Solstice has been high the past season so they're increasing. Just like the Caribbean there are many ships, but there's a lot of demand. From a passenger perspective though, yeah, it's just more opportunities for the same and more convenient for those in Melbourne, but nothing substantially different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MicCanberra Posted October 30, 2018 #18 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Not Just people from Melbourne, also makes it cheaper and easier for all of Victoria, Tasmania and even SA/WA . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUT2407 Posted October 30, 2018 #19 Share Posted October 30, 2018 2 hours ago, MicCanberra said: Not Just people from Melbourne, also makes it cheaper and easier for all of Victoria, Tasmania and even SA/WA . Even opens more option or those in the ACT. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MicCanberra Posted October 31, 2018 #20 Share Posted October 31, 2018 It certainly does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Big_M Posted October 31, 2018 #21 Share Posted October 31, 2018 Sure. It wasn't a comparison on which cruisers geographically benefit (which is pretty obvious), but pointing out what it's bringing to the market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hgwells01 Posted October 31, 2018 #22 Share Posted October 31, 2018 Well there is one in there to Tassie and Solstice hasn’t been there, prob is I’m on their 2020 Tonga cruise 1 Apr which is a new destination for 2019 for Celebrity so they do have a couple of non NZ and usual PAC islands cruises plus, it’s a really beautiful ship so I’d be looking closely at prices to compare. I do wish all the lines would get a bit more creative, everyone goes to NZ or the islands with a few unique destinations occasionally. Would love to see more PNG and maybe a trip out to Tahiti and back from Auckland. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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