Seabourn’s 2022-23 winter cruise programme goes on sale today featuring 45 cruises in Asia, Arabia, Australasia, the Caribbean and the Panama Canal.  

The programme will run between November 2022 and May 2023 across the line’s five ships.

Seabourn Ovation and Seabourn Sojourn will spend the winter in the Caribbean, with Ovation sailing a series of seven to 14-night roundtrip itineraries from Bridgetown, Barbados and Sojourn offering a programme of cruises roundtrip from Miami. 

For the first time, prices for Seabourn’s Caribbean programme will include scheduled flights from London and regional UK airports.

Fly/cruise prices for Seabourn Ovation start from £3,599, including economy class air and transfers between Bridgetown airport and the ship, with the option to upgrade to business class for £999 per person each way.

Lynn Narraway, Seabourn’s managing director for UK and Ireland, said: “A Caribbean cruise from Barbados is the perfect winter sunshine holiday for British travellers, since it’s so easy to fly direct to the island from a number of UK airports. 

“We’ve published our fly/cruise prices early to enable our agent partners to book their clients now, so that they may look forward an extraordinary tropical holiday in 2022 or even 2023.”

She added: “Barbados is really popular with UK guests so we’re deploying a larger ship, the 300-suite Seabourn Ovation, so that we’ve got increased capacity there.”

Meanwhile, Seabourn Quest will offer four 14-night Panama Canal cruises between Miami and Fuerte Amador (Panama), including visits to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Honduras and a daylight transit of the Canal. 

Seabourn Encore will cruise the Holy Land and Arabia to Singapore before offering a programme of 14-night Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia cruises over the winter. The ship will then return to Athens in April 2023 through Arabia, Egypt and the Holy Land. 

Seabourn Odyssey will offer a programme of 14 to 16-night Australasia itineraries from December 2022 until March 2023, before cruising through Indonesia and the South China Sea.

Odyssey will then offer two new 14-night Japan cruises for the first time before it embarks on a 21-night Kuroshio Route voyage, sailing from Tokyo to Vancouver on May 6, 2023. 

Seabourn’s first 65-night Grand Pacific Voyage, which departs Vancouver on September 30, 2022 and arrives in Sydney on December 5, 2022, has also gone on sale today. 

The Grand Pacific: A World of Islands Voyage onboard Seabourn Odyssey features 38 destinations on 30 different islands, with overnight stays in Honolulu, the Conflict Islands and Papeete (Tahiti). 

Highlights include visits to remote destinations such as the Cook Islands, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands and Papua (New Guinea), as well as the coasts of north and eastern Australia, Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef. Sectors from 26 days will be available. 

“We’ve already previewed this cruise to our Seabourn club members, and the response – and number of registrations – has been overwhelming,” Narraway said.

“We do recommend that guests book early as this cruise is sure to fill soon.”  

Guests who book and pay in full by June 30, 2021 for any of the above itineraries will receive a 10% saving on their cruise fare. Agents will also benefit from early payment of their full agency commission. 

The line has also created a Caribbean and a Grand Voyages e-brochure which agents can white label and send to their clients. 

“Everybody needs something to look forward to so my message is just book something, have it to look forward to and the worst that can happen is that we move it again,” Narraway said.

“Spring is here, so I think we now need to spring into cruise mode and get all those guests booked and on our ships again.”