Blogging all over the world: P&O Cruises latest online blog
July 13, 2009 by Mr Papa
Filed under Cruise News
Visitors to the P&O Cruises website can now catch up on the action of a film crew currently filming across the globe for a massive 20 metre wide floor to ceiling plasma wall, the main feature of the Planet Bar on board Azura.
The film crew’s task is to visit, and film simply the most stunning landscapes and vistas that the world has to offer. This footage will then be played on the plasma wall in the Planet Bar creating breathtaking panoramic scenes on a grand scale and a mesmerising backdrop to a night on board Azura. Each night of the week will feature one of the seven continents and the bar will take this as the theme for its music and drinks.
P&O Cruises, head of brand marketing, Philip Price said: “We have asked the film crew to do one thing and that is to film the most dramatic natural and man-made wonders of world – and that is just what they are doing!
“The audiovisual wall on board Azura really is going to make The Planet Bar the perfect place to sit, enjoy a cocktail and, literally, watch the world go by.â€
The first blog by director, Duncan Swinhoe, is online now and gives a run down of filming on location in Australia.
To read the blog and to find out more about Azura, visit www.pocruises.co.uk/planetbar
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a grumble re p%o australia…after being promised on there web site and scheduled on theports of auckland web site it now appears p$o have changed there minds and will not base the new pacific pearl in auckland for the 2011 winter cruise season but instead will heep useing the rubbish they call pacific sun….once again auckland and new zealand get the hand me ons from australia…very very dissapionting ..just when we thought we would finally have a descent ship to sail the auckland to auckland cruises on why do we have to put up with this….
I do feel the Southern Hemisphere is somewhat underserved in terms of first rate ships. A lot of the very first Caribbean cruises I took in the 70′s were definitely less than first rate ships. When you get the chance to sail a nice one, and you see the difference it is wonderful. I hoped they get some better ships into the market down there. You have such a beautiful are a to cruise.
i know what you mean ..i have done 19 cruises in most parts of the world on some beautiful ships….and we have some of the best call in here to auckland but when it comes to the winter cruise season in which p$o australia base a ship here for about 2 months running cruise up around the sth pacific islands we end up with the rubbish pacific sun…an old ex carnival ship…they have haD A LOT OF TROUBLE WITH THIS SHIP …when they first announced the pacific pearl would replace her they made a big deal about the fact auckland would have this wonderful large vessel…now they suddenly change that…and base her in australia…thay even pulled all the news items refering to her comming to auckland and replacing the pacific sun from there web site…we saw the pacific sun in town the other day…just a rust bucket…when i spoke to p$o australia…they couldnt give a tose..we have had friends travel on the pacific sun and tell everybody the crew even have there worries about this ship
Hopefully if there is enough of a market and demand, one of the cruise companies will bring in or build a new ship just for this market.