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Fred Olsen Cruise Lines Launches Preview Brochure for 2009 & 2010 Season

London, UK (PRWEB) April 12, 2008 -- Fred Olsen Cruise Lines has just launched its 2009/2010 Preview as an advance guide for cruise holidays aboard its fleet of five ships.

Two longer voyages are highlighted - Black Watch's Around South American cruise of 73 nights (BW W1001) departs 13th January 2010 from Southampton, while Balmoral has a World Cruise travelling in a westerly direction (BL L1001) departing Dover on 5th January 2010 for 106 nights. On board credit are available with early bookings on both cruises.

Each of these longer cruises can be booked as a whole cruise, or as one of a number of shorter sectors.

The guide also gives an outline itinerary for each Fred Olsen cruise ship from spring to autumn 2009.

The Balmoral (http://www.fredolsencruises.com/our-ships/balmoral), the latest ship to join the fleet, will operate cruises from Dover from May 2009, with destinations including Norway, Iberia and the Baltic. Sample cruise holiday - BL0906 31st May 2009, seven-night cruise to the fjords from Dover, prices from £809 per person.

The Boudicca (http://www.fredolsencruises.com/our-ships/boudicca) will operate out of Southampton in the spring, with Norwegian cruises and Mediterranean cruises, then repositions to Leith in June for a season of north-bound Baltic cruises and Ireland summer cruises. From late August she is based in Newcastle (Port of Tyne) for cruises to the Arctic, Med. and the Baltic, then in October she cruises from Portsmouth - a new departure port for the cruise line - for Adriatic cruises and Mediterranean cruises. Sample cruise holiday - BD0916, 11th July 2009, 12-night cruise to the Baltic from Leith. Ports of call include St. Petersburg, Tallinn, Helsinki and Copenhagen and prices are from £1,395 per person.

The Braemar (http://www.fredolsencruises.com/our-ships/braemar) will be based in Dover, with cruises to the Balearics, Norway, the Baltic, Arctic, Iceland, Spain and North Africa during spring and early summer. Then, from July she will operate fly and cruise holidays to the Adriatic, Bosphorus and Egypt from the alternating base port of Civitavecchia (Rome), and Piraeus (Athens). Sample fly and cruise holiday - BM0923, 5th November 2009. Fourteen nights fly and cruise holiday departing from Gatwick, Stanstead, Manchester and Bristol to Piraeus. The cruise calls at ports including Corfu, Dubrovnik, Venice, Valletta and ends in Civitavecchia (Rome). Prices start from £1,296 per person.

The Black Prince (http://www.fredolsencruises.com/our-ships/black-prince) cruises out of Greenock in the spring to the Adriatic, Iceland and the fjords, then repositions to Liverpool in June. From here she operates summer cruises to the Baltic, Norway, the Canaries, Mediterranean and round Britain. Sample cruise - BP0925 departing 27th October 2009. 14-night cruise from Greenock visiting Gibraltar, Motril, Mahon, Barcelona, Cartagena and Leixos (Oporto) returning to Greenock, with prices from £1,098 per person.

The Black Watch (http://www.fredolsencruises.com/our-ships/black-watch) operates out of Dover in spring to the Canaries, Spitsbergen, Norway and round Britain then moves to Southampton for the summer and autumn with cruises to the Black Sea, Med. and fjords, plus one transatlantic voyage to the Caribbean. Sample cruise holiday - BW0917 25th October 2009. This is an ex-UK Caribbean cruise of 25 nights, departing from Southampton and visiting Barbados, St Lucia, Tortola, St Maarten, Antigua and the Azores, with prices from £2,299 per person.

Prices are based on two sharing a twin-bedded cabin and include early booking discounts and as an added bonus, bookings made by 30th April 2008, for cruises of seven nights or more, will be eligible for an additional £100 discount per cabin.

More information on all these cruises can be found at www.fredolsencruises.co.uk .

Agents can book online through F.OCAL or via AmadeusCruise. Alternatively, call Reservations on 01473 742424.

Media enquiries:

Jill Channing/Amy Clarke         

Bugsgang & Associates        

Tel: 0207 808 9770        

Wendy Hooper-Greenhill

Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines

Tel: 01473 292200

31st March 2008

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