Australia

Destination Deals
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AU $13,860EXPLORER IN THE KIMBERLEY - Exclusive Fly Free Offer - 26th May 2021
Fly, Expedition Cruise & Stay 13 nights with Silver Explorer on a Kimberley cruise with free airfare and hotel stays in Darwin and Broome! CTV, FFF
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AU $699CARNIVAL SPLENDOR - MORETON ISLAND
Cruise 4 nights with Carnival Splendor ex Sydney return
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AU $13,860EXPLORER IN THE KIMBERLEY - Exclusive Fly Free Offer - 13th June 2021
Fly, Expedition Cruise & Stay 13 nights with Silver Explorer on a Kimberley cruise with free airfare and hotel stays in Darwin and Broome! CTV, FFF
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AU $0CARNIVAL SPIRIT - AIRLIE BEACH
Cruise 4 nights with Carnival Spirit ex Brisbane return
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AU $9,995AUSTRALASIA EXTRAVAGANZA 2022 - Rail & Sail from Sydney
Fly, Cruise, Rail & Stay for 25 nights with Azamara Journey on a small ship cruise from Sydney to Singapore and returning home via the Ghan & more... CTV
Australia is the world's smallest continent and largest island. It is like nowhere else in the world. It's young, adventurous, stylish and friendly. It has unique animals and a fantastic climate and offers a wide and contrasting range of cruise experiences covering experiences from visiting the Barrier Reef to Tasmania.
Cruise Types
Major cruise lines offer itineraries along the Australian coast and often include the Islands of Noumea and Vanuatu from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Specialty cruises, generally in small ships with passenger numbers ranging from 10 to 00 allow passengers to explore Australia’s diverse coastline. These cruise destinations include the Barrier Reef, the largest living organism on the planet, which is a wonder of Coral, Birdlife & Sealife.; Australia’s Top End (northern Australia) with cruises operating from Darwin to Broome; and around Tasmania.
Cruise Seasons
While larger ship and Barrier Reef cruises are available year round, the Speciality cruises are seasonal. Tasmanian cruises operate in the Southern summer (November to March) while Top End cruises operate in the winter months (April to October)
Main Ports
The key embarkation ports include Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane but specialty cruise run from smaller ports such as Darwin, Wyndham and Broome
Weather
Australias seasons are the reverse of the Northern Hemisphere so Christmas here is in mid-summer and the coldest months are July and August. However Australia spans from the tropics (were winter is very pleasant and summer is hot and humid) to Tasmania which has a more temperate summer and cold winters.
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Ports of Interest
- 1770, Queensland, Australia
- Abrolhos Islands, Australia
- Adelaide, South Australia
- Adventure Bay, Tasmania
- Agincourt Reef, Queensland, Australia
- Airlie Beach, Queensland, Australia
- Albany, Western Australia
- Ashmore Reef, Australia
- Augusta, Australia
- Augustus Island, Western Australia
- Ayers Rock, Australia
- Badu Island, Australia
- Ball's Pyramid, Australia
- Bateman's Bay, Australia
- Bathurst Bay, Queensland, Australia
- Bathurst Island, Darwin, Australia
- Beauty Point, Tasmania, Australia
- Bigge Island, Western Australia
- Botany Bay, Australia
- Bremer Bay, WA, Australia
- Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Broome, Western Australia
- Broughton Island, NSW, Australia
- Browse Island
- Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia
- Buccaneer archipelago, Western Australia
- Bunbury, Western Australia
- Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia
- Burnie, Tasmania, Australia
- Busselton, Western Australia
- Cairns, Queensland, Australia
- Canberra (Batemans Bay), Australia
- Cape Arnhem, Australia
- Cape Leveque, Western Australia
- Cape Naturaliste, WA, Australia
- Cape York, Queensland, Australia
- Careening Bay, Western Australia
- Carnac Island, WA, Australia
- Ceduna, South Australia
- Christmas Island, Australia
- Cid Harbour, Queensland, Australia
- Cockatoo Island, Western Australia
- Coconut Island, Queensland, Australia
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia
- Coffin Bay, Australia
- Coffs Harbour, Queensland, Australia
- Coles Bay, Tasmania
- Collier Bay, Western Australia
- Cooktown, Queensland, Australia
- Coral Bay, WA, Australia
- Creal Reef, Queensland, Australia
- Creech Reef, Queensland, Australia
- Cygnet Bay, Australia
- Dampier (Karatha), Western Australia
- Dampier Archipelago, Australia
- Darlington Bay, Tasmania, Australia
- Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
- Denham, Australia
- Depuch Island, Australia
- Devonport, Tasmania, Australia
- Dirk Hartog Island, Australia
- Doubtful Bay, Australia
- Dunk Island, Queensland, Australia
- Eagle Falls, Western Australia
- Eden, New South Wales, Australia
- Elcho Island, Australia
- Esperance, Western Australia
- Exmouth, Western Australia
- Faraway Bay, Western Australia
- Fitzroy Island, Queensland, Australia
- Flinders Group National Park, Qld
- Flinders Island, Tasmania, Australia
- Flinders Reef, Queensland, Australia
- Forbes Island, Queensland, Australia
- Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia
- Freshwater Cove
- Freycinet National Park, Tasmania, Australia
- Funnel Bay, Queensland, Australia
- Geelong, Victoria, Australia
- George Town, Tasmania
- George Water,Western Australia
- Geraldton, Western Australia
- Gladstone, Queensland
- Glenelg River, Australia
- Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
- Great Barrier Reef & Coastal Islands, Queensland, Australia
- Great Keppel Island, Australia
- Half Moon Bay, Australia
- Hamilton Island, Queensland, Australia
- Hardy Reef, Queensland, Australia
- Hawkesbury River, New South Wales, Australia
- Hayman Island, Queensland, Australia
- Head of the Bight, SA, Australia
- Hedley Reef, Queensland, Australia
- Heron Island, Queensland, Australia
- Hinchinbrook Island, Queensland, Australia
- Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- Hook Island, Queensland, Australia
- Horizontal Waterfalls, Western Australia
- Horn Island, Queensland, Australia
- Hunter River, West Australia
- Injidup Beach, WA, Australia
- Israelite Bay, WA, Australia
- Jar Island
- Jensen Bay, Northern Territory, Australia
- Jensen Bay, Queensland, Australia
- Jervis Bay, NSW, Australia
- Jurien Bay, Australia
- Kalbarri, WA, Australia
- Kalumburu, Western Australia
- Kangaroo Island, South Australia
- Kelso Reef, Queensland, Australia
- Kent Island Group, Tasmania, Australia
- Kimberley Coast, Western Australia
- King Casades, Western Australia
- King George River, Western Australia
- King Island, Tasmania, Australia
- Kingston, Norfolk Island
- Koolama Bay, Western Australia
- Koolan Island, Western Australia
- Kuri Bay, Western Australia
- Lacepede Islands, Western Australia
- Lady Elliot Island, Queensland, Australia
- Lady Musgrave Island, Queensland, Australia
- Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
- Limestone Coast
- Little Boydong Island, Australia
- Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia
- Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, Australia
- Low Island, Low Isles, Queensland, Australia
- Mackay, Queensland, Australia
- Magnetic Island, Queensland, Australia
- Maningrida, Northern Territory, Australia
- Margaret River, Australia
- Maria Island, Tasmania, Australia
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia
- Middle Percy Island, Australia
- Mitchell Plateau and Falls, Western Australia
- Moa Island, Australia
- Monkey Mia, Western Australia
- Montebello Islands, Australia
- Montgomery Reef, Western Australia
- Mooloolaba (Noosa), Queensland, Australia
- Moreton Island, Queensland, Australia
- Mornington Peninsula, Australia
- Mt. Borradaile, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
- Muiron Islands, Australia
- Murray Island, Queensland, Australia
- Murujuga National Park, Burrup Peninsula
- Mussleroe Bay, Tasmania, Australia
- Nathan Reef, Queensland, Australia
- Nelson Bay, NSW, Australia
- Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
- Nhulunbuy, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
- Ningaloo Reef, Australia
- One Arm Point, Western Australia
- Orion Reef, Queensland, Australia
- Palm Island, Queensland, Australia
- Pearson Islands, Australia
- Pelorus Island, Queensland, Australia
- Pennefather, Australia
- Percy Isles, Queensland, Australia
- Perth (Fremantle), WA Australia
- Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia
- Piper Islands, Australia
- Pixie Pinnacle, Queensland, Australia
- Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia
- Port Bremer, Coburg Peninsular
- Port Campbell, Victoria, Australia
- Port Davey, Tasmania, Australia
- Port Denison, WA Australia
- Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia
- Port Essington, Cobourg Peninsula
- Port Fairy, Australia
- Port Hedland, Western Australia
- Port Huon, Tasmania, Australia
- Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia
- Port Lincoln, South Australia
- Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
- Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia
- Portland, VIC, Australia
- Possession Island, Queensland, Australia
- Preservation Island, Australia
- Prince Frederick Harbour, Western Australia
- Raft Point, Western Australia
- Recherche Bay, Tasmania
- Restoration Island, Australia
- Ribbon Reef, Queensland, Australia
- Robe, SA, Australia
- Roe River, Western Australia
- Rottnest Island, WA, Australia
- Rowley Shoals, Western Australia
- Scott Reef Atoll, Western Australia
- Secure Bay, Australia
- Seringapatam Atoll, Western Australia
- Seven Spirit Bay, Northern Territory, Australia
- Sherrard Island, Queensland
- Shute Harbour, Queensland, Australia
- Silky Oaks, Queensland, Australia
- South Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia
- South Molle Island, Queensland, Australia
- Stanley Island, Queensland, Australia
- Stanley, Tasmania, Australia
- Steep Point, Western Australia
- Strahan, Tasmania, Australia
- Streaky Bay, Australia
- Strickland Bay, Western Australia
- Swift Bay
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Talbot Bay, Western Australia
- Tamar Valley
- Tangalooma Island, Australia
- Thursday Island, Queensland, Australia
- Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory, Australia
- Torres Strait Island, Australia
- Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- Trial Bay, NSW, Australia
- Turkey Creek, Western Australia
- Turquoise Bay, Australia
- Two Isles, Queensland, Australia
- Twofold Bay, NSW, Australia
- Vansittart Bay, Western Australia
- Victor Harbour, SA, Australia
- Voltaire Passage, Western Australia
- Wallaroo, Australia
- Wessel Islands, Northern Territory, Australia
- Whitsunday Islands, Queensland, Australia
- Whyalla, Australia
- Willis Island, Coral Sea
- Wilsons Promontory National Park, Australia
- Wineglass Bay, Tasmania, Australia
- Wistari Reef, Australia
- Wollongong, Australia
- Wyndham, Western Australia
- Yamba, New South Wales, Australia
- Yampi Sound, Western Australia
- Yirrkala, Australia
- Yorke Island, Queensland, Australia
- Yorkeys Knob, Cairns, Queensland, Australia