The cabins A twin cabin on Ambience (Photo: Getty Images) Onboard prices are also reasonable, however: a gin and tonic starts from around £4.65. This is available on sailings between five and 29 nights for £29.95 per person, per night when booked and paid for in advance. Drinks packages are on offer, such as the Ambassador Explorer Package.
Guests must pay a supplement to dine in these venues, from £14.95 per person at Saffron to £24.95 per person at Sea & Grass. What strikes in France mean for UK holidaymakers 17 March, 2023 7 of the best UK seaside breaks for art lovers, from Hastings and Aldeburgh to Penzance 17 March, 2023 When to renew your passport, how long it takes and how strikes will affect orders 17 March, 2023 This multi-tiered theatre offers shows such as “Dance, Dance, Dance”, a world tour of dance through the decades that is choreographed by Strictly Come Dancing’s Anton Du Beke and The Picture of Dorian Gray. West-End style entertainment is available in The Palladium. The Palladium promises plenty of dance and drama (Photo: Ambassador Cruise Line) In Ambassador Casino and the Aces & Eights bridge and card room you’ll find games aplenty. Elsewhere, Brontë’s library holds book club sessions, while The Purple Turtle pub hosts late-night comedy shows and lively pub quizzes. Kapoor’s Crafters Studio offers classes in skills such as mosaic decoration, calligraphy and painting. Yet Ambassador has plenty to offer passengers seeking out slightly more high-octane entertainment. I got chatting to Peter and Carole, who were long-time passengers of CMV Ambassador has effectively stepped into the market gap left by the low-cost British line.įor Peter and Carole, a comfortable place in which to sip a cappuccino and watch the world pass was the ultimate cruise luxury they didn’t covet the high-tech gear of higher-priced voyages. I sipped Champagne as a live band played us out of port. Photos by Fraser Gray and Jason Arthur.Up on the pool deck, I enjoyed the first-ever sail away party of Ambience. Much smaller than her 70,285gt running mate, her passenger capacity is 1,200 compared with 1,400. Sshe sailed on just a few cruises for Aida before the pandemic hit and she was laid up off Tenerife.įollowing her sale, she is now at a shipyard in Croatia being prepared for her new role. Ibero Cruises later became majority owned by Carnival Corporation and, on the wind-up of the Spanish company in 2013, the ship was moved to Costa Cruises where she was renamed Costa neoRiviera.Īt 48,123gt, she was not a good fit with larger Costa ships, and in 2019 was transferred to sister company, Aida Cruises, who renamed her Aidamira. She passed to Ibero Cruises of Spain, becoming Grand Mistral. She was delivered as Mistral, in 1999, on a 12-year charter.įive years later Festival collapsed and the ship’s ownership reverted to her builders. The shipyard continued with the construction and later Festival Cruises took the ship on charter. Although ordered by Renaissance Cruises in 1996 from Chantiers de l’Atlantique at St Nazaire, the order was later cancelled. In October 2021 she went for refit at the Viktor Lenac Shipyard near Rijeka, and is now ready to begin her inaugural season with Ambassador Cruise Line.Īmbassador have acquired a second ship, which will be named Ambition. However, after failing to obtain insurance for the proposed operation, she was resold in 2021 for future operation by Ambassador Cruise Line as Ambience. They intended her to become a floating residence in the Gulf of Panama. Later in 2020 Pacific Dawn was sold to Ocean Builders Central, and renamed Satoshi.
It was intended that the ship would be retired in 2020, sold to Cruise & Maritime Voyages (CMV) and renamed Amy Johnson, but CMV had financial difficulties and went into administration in 2020, affected by the Covid pandemic in 2020. In 2007 Regal Princess was transferred to P&O Cruises Australia, underwent major refurbishment, and was renamed Pacific Dawn, operating from Australia to South Pacific destinations. After 2000 she was deployed on the company’s Australian routes, then later in the Mediterranean and Baltic seas. She operated initially on their North American routes. Ambassador Cruise Lines’ new ship Ambience made her debut on the Thames at daybreak on 14 April 2022.īuilt in 1991, she was formerly Regal Princess (1991–2007) and Pacific Dawn (2007–2020), having been delivered to Princess Cruises in 1991 by Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy as Regal Princess.
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