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Crystal Cruises rings the changes for its early 2013 calendar

Crystal Cruises has announced its calendar of 19 all-inclusive voyages covering the first half of 2013 that visit more than 40 countries with 37 overnights in “star” destinations.

Among the new selections is a comprehensive 74-night, 14-country World Cruise circling South America.

Crystal Cruises is also offering big per person savings of up to £2,500 for bookings made by February 28, 2012.

Says Crystal sales vice president Philip Ordever: “We’re deploying our two ships quite differently than in the past, with each offering exotic, in-depth deployments in different parts of the world – Australia/New Zealand/Asia for Crystal Symphony and a South American-concentrated World Cruise for Crystal Serenity.

“Crystal’s luxury travellers will have a choice of two very grand alternatives for longer-scale cruising, along with shorter cruise options and multiple opportunities for fascinating combinations.”

Crystal Serenity will start 2013 cruising the Caribbean

Crystal Serenity

Before heading to the Iberian Peninsula and Mediterranean for April, Crystal Serenity will start the year in the Caribbean and then navigate travellers through an in-depth four-segment World Cruise round-trip from/to Miami.

Highlights feature:

Multiple stops in Ecuador, Peru and Chile

Two weeks sailing through Patagonia

Four days of cruising the infamous Chilean Fjords

Intimate Brazilian content, including the Amazon

Maiden calls in Laguna San Rafael, Manta, Salaverry, Chacabuco and Cape Horn

Overnights in Cartagena, Valparaíso, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, and Callao, the latter allowing for time in Machu Picchu

Crystal Symphony

Crystal Symphony will begin 2013 with an all-Australia cruise, followed by sojourns through the Pacific and Asia before heading back to the US via Russia, Alaska and Canada.

Highlights include

New cruises beginning and ending in Brisbane and Bali

Overnights in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart, Auckland, Tauranga, Hong Kong, Bali, Laem Chebang/Bangkok and Singapore

Double overnights in Shanghai, Ho Chi Minh City and Kobe

Complimentary three-day Beijing land package for the 23rd March and 31st March Asian voyages (or a combination thereof)

Waterways explored en route include New Zealand’s Dusky, Milford and Doubtful Sounds; Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay; Alaska’s Glacier Bay; and the Panama Canal

Sail all the way from Auckland to New York, with Shanghai and Dalian as the only repeat-visit calls

Early booking savings
:: Save £2,524 per person on the full World Cruise with prices starting from £17,300 per person cruise only.
:: Save £442 per person or £631 per person on seven- to 24-night sailings
Book the 2013 World Cruise (or segments thereof) and save 20% off 2014’s World Cruise.

Each seven- to 24-night cruise includes all-inclusive amenities such as complimentary gratuities, fine wines and spirits, specialty restaurants (including the lauded cuisine of Nobu Matsuhisa), Open Dining by Reservation® and stimulating onboard entertainment and enrichment.

Prices start from £1,642 per person inclusive of “Book Now Savings” based on the 10-night Miami to Lisbon voyage departing March 31, 2013.

A host of World Cruise perks are included, such as a pre-cruise Gala with hotel accommodations in Miami, two exclusive shore-side events, and a memento gift programme. Throughout, all guests will be treated to extra onboard entertainment performances and complimentary progressive (beginning, intermediate, and advanced) enrichment education.