Royal Caribbean will send the 3,114-passenger Explorer of the Seas to Australia for the 2015-16 Southern Hemisphere’s summer season, adding capacity and offering a number of South Pacific itineraries.
Explorer of the Seas will be the largest cruise ship ever to be based in the region and will replace the 2,040-passenger Rhapsody of the Seas, which has spent eight consecutive seasons cruising out of Sydney.
Over four months, Explorer of the Seas will primarily sail 11- and 14-night cruises to New Zealand out of Sydney. It will join sister ship Voyager of the Seas and the smaller, 2,112-passenger Radiance of the Seas.
Royal announced Explorer of the Seas’ deployment out of Southampton, U.K., for the Northern Hemisphere’s 2015 summer last week.
