Pacific Dawn  - September 2008 South Pacific

We have been very pleasantly surprised

Pacific Dawn is one of two ships that P&O Australia (not to be confused with P&O UK) currently have based in Australian waters. The other being Pacific Sun. Late in 2009 the Pacific Dawn's sister ship Pacific Jewel joins the fleet as does another new ship Pacific Pearl bringing the total to four. These plus the two Princess ships Dawn Princess and Sun Princess which are also based year round in Australia has finally given us Aussies and Kiwis some decent choices and some great new itineraries including circumnavigations of Australia without having to fly 1000,s of miles to find a good cruise. There are some  problems though as many people get confused between the two "Dawns' and the two "Suns' .Two different cruise lines with two different standards.  Also P & O Australia is not connected with P & O in the UK who operate the Oriana, Aurora and Arcadia amongst others. However all three lines as well as Cunard , Seabourn and Costa are all marketed here by Carnival Corporation's local office ,it can get confusing! Read more