Arcadia

48 Night Cruise sailing from Brisbane to Southampton onboard Arcadia.

Everything about Arcadia is indulgent. Her size. Her choice of modern facilities. Her stylish accommodation. Over 3,000 British artworks are displayed around her decks. And her exterior glass lifts offer far-reaching views across the ocean.

Stylish in design and atmosphere, child-free Arcadia offers a classic cruising experience. With many innovative signature features, she offers a cruise experience that is quite unique. A three tier theatre. A fine dining restaurant, which spans two decks. And a luxurious spa, complete with thermal suite and hydrotherapy pool.

On board, you can also dine in Arcadian Rhodes - created by well-known British chef Gary Rhodes. You can sample a fusion of Oriental flavours in The Orchid. Enjoy five course menus in the main restaurant. As well as enjoy more relaxed dining in the Belvedere food court and out on deck.

About the Cruise:

Embark in Brisbane which provides your first Australian experience followed by Sydney, a capital that always lives up to expectations.

The spectacular scenery of Milford Sound welcomes you to New Zealand and the ports of Dunedin; Lyttelton, for trips into cultural Christchurch; Wellington; Art Deco Napier; and Auckland, where you can take a full day tour to the remarkable geysers and mud pools of Rotorua.

Blessed with many natural wonders, Pago Pago in the South Pacific is your next stop followed by the magical Samoan capital, Apia and then Honolulu. San Francisco's, improbably steep streets are simply breathtaking whilst in Acapulco you can watch the world famous cliff divers at La Quebrada plunge into the swirling waters below.

Beach-lovers are spoilt for choice at Mexico's first eco-tourism resort, Huatulco before Arcadia transits the Panama Canal for the Caribbean islands of Curacao and Barbados with one final call in Ponta Delgada in the Azores before arriving back in Southampton.

About Brisbane
Classic Australian pastimes such as surfing and swimming from sensational beaches - that is what you will find on the coastline surrounding Queensland's capital and cruise port Brisbane. To the south are the high-rise hotels which make up the exciting Surfers' Paradise and Gold Coast resorts, while to the north there is the beautiful and more sedate Sunshine Coast.
Cultural attractions in downtown Brisbane are located in and around the South Bank Parklands by the Brisbane River - site of the 1988 World Expo. In close proximity you will discover the Queensland Museum and the State Art Gallery, which features many Aboriginal works. Then there's the Butterfly House and Maritime Museum.
The best shopping can be found at the Myer Centre complex on the city's central commercial artery, Queen Street. Walk south to admire the fine architecture around the former Treasury building and then discover the imaginatively landscaped Botanic Gardens

About Sydney
One of the world's great cities and harbours, Sydney always lives up to great expectations. The first glimpse of the Harbour Bridge and Opera House will stay in the memory forever.
Even before the 2000 Olympics, Sydney had much to offer - hosting the games just made the city even better with improved facilities and extra dining and entertainment venues all round.
From the waterside restaurants fringing the historic Rocks district, take an easy walk around Sydney Cove past the Circular Quay ferry terminal to that remarkable Opera House and the beautiful Royal Botanic Gardens.
Travel to the top of the 300-metre-high Centrepoint Tower for a bird's eye view of the city. Or catch a ferry for a 30-minute harbour trip to Manly for some top beaches. Brash Bondi is the classic Aussie beach experience while Darling Harbour offers an Aboriginal cultural centre, museums, aquarium, amusement park and shops.
Further afield, you can get right away from it all in the Blue Mountains.

About Wellington
New Zealand's capital and cruise port Wellington, is blessed with a wonderful setting, overlooking a glittering harbour filled with bobbing sailing boats.
Behind the gleaming modern skyscrapers of its centre, you will find the city's history well preserved in some outstanding old buildings - notably the old Government Building, built in 1876, which is the second-largest wooden building in the world.
But to see New Zealand's story brought most vividly to life, visit the Te Papa Museum, a multi-level extravaganza of hands-on learning where you can explore a Maori meeting house, take a virtual reality bungee jump or even experience an earthquake.
Make time, too, to enjoy lunch with a view on the city's lively waterfront, then take a four minute ride in the Kelburn cable car to see the marvellous views from the top of Mount Victoria.

About Auckland
New Zealand's biggest city and major cruise port, Auckland, sits between the Pacific Ocean and Tasman Sea, which is how it came to host the America's Cup twice - in 1999 and 2002 - attracting investment to transform the harbourside into a superb meeting and eating place which all visitors can now appreciate.
]The Viaduct Harbour area now boasts outdoor restaurants ideally placed to view the hundreds of yachts attracted to this icon of sailing success. This 'City of Sails' is also home to New Zealand's impressive National Maritime Museum which charts the nation's seafaring history.
Harbour ferries offer a great way of viewing the city, either by crossing the bay to old-established Devonport or under the harbour bridge to the suburb of Birkenhead. Otherwise take in all the sights from the revolving restaurant at the top of the Sky Tower, the tallest structure in the southern hemisphere at 328 metres. From Auckland, you can also visit the remarkable geysers and mud pools of Rotorua.

About Honolulu, Oahu
If you associate Hawaii with flower garlands, grass-skirted hula dancers, fabulous beaches and spectacular volcanic scenery, a call at the capital and main Hawaiian cruise port, Honolulu, will more than live up to your expectations.
With its alfresco, whitewashed shopping malls, elegant hotels and magnificent Waikiki Bay, this city is hedonism personified. You can spend a perfect day ashore browsing the designer boutiques and enjoying a lazy lunch in a waterfront hotel garden before retiring to the soft sands and warm waves that surround the island.
And if that is not enough, there are plenty of other things to do - including tours to historic Pearl Harbour or lovely Waimea Falls Park, where you can watch daredevil locals diving from the towering cliffs which surround the spectacular waterfall into the churning waters below.
If you are feeling daring yourself, you can also take a flight over the island's stunning volcanic scenery in a helicopter or a light plane.

About San Francisco
Cruising under the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco is one of the world's greatest travel experiences for it acts as gateway to a fascinating city set across dozens of hills overlooking the bay.
The hippies are long gone but San Francisco's scenic beauty, laid-back ambience and more than 3,000 restaurants make it a joy to visit. The famous Fisherman's Wharf harbourfront restaurant and multi-coloured boats complex, where seals happily sunbathe on its wooden decking, faces out towards the former island prison of Alcatraz which is now a major tourist attraction just like the city's colourful Chinatown district and upmarket shopping centre in Union Square.
And no visit to San Francisco would be complete without a trip on the city's 130-year-old tram system carrying you up and down the improbably steep streets made famous by that stomach-churning Steve McQueen car chase in the movie Bullitt.
From the city, you can also visit the pretty resorts of Sausalito and Monterey.

About Acapulco
Long a magnet for the rich and famous, Mexico's top beach resort, Acapulco, boasts some of the most stunning beaches along the Pacific Coast Mexican Riviera. Situated on a spectacular sweeping bay lined by five star hotels, this jetsetters' city makes the perfect cruise call as there is a huge range of attractions to suit all tastes and interests.
There are lively bars and cafés, chic boutiques and a pulsating nightlife but so much of Acapulco life centres around the ocean. There is a huge variety of watersports from surfing, jet-skiing and parasailing through to snorkelling, scuba-diving and deep-sea fishing.
But top of the list has to be the world famous cliff divers at La Quebrada, who plunge 130 feet from perilous cliffs into the raging waters below, timing their jumps precisely to coincide with the incoming waves so as to avoid landing with a bump in the shallows. Just marvel at the timing, grace and sheer bravery of the divers as they perform every lunchtime and evening

About Barbados
Watching the Atlantic surf crash down on the rugged east coast of this richly diverse island and, for a moment, you may feel you could be on the Cornish coast but the moment you hear the waves of gospel singing emanating from a tiny local church you realise you could not be anywhere else but Barbados.
While, over on the sheltered west coast, the glorious beaches are pure Caribbean. And there are more beaches and a lot more bars, cafés, restaurants and clubs creating a vibrant 24/7 lifestyle on the south coast, too.
In the capital and cruise port, Bridgetown, there are intriguing signs of its British colonial past while, across the island, you are really spoilt for choice. You can enjoy every watersport under the sun; stunning nature walks and bike rides; or maybe a trip to the uniquely magnificent Harrisons Cave underground complex of caverns, waterfalls, stalactites and stalagmites.