Mahoney: ‘Basing Queen Anne in Southampton is huge – it is attracting a really high proportion of British guests’
“Our 3,000-passenger ship is a little smaller than what the market has had to absorb recently – there aren’t many ships of Queen Anne’s tonnage launching now, which is really beneficial for our customers and travel agent partners.”
He is almost certainly alluding to Royal Caribbean International’s 7,600-passenger Icon of the Seas and Princess Cruises’ 4,300-passenger Sun Princess, both of which were launched outside the UK earlier this year.
“The fact Queen Anne is based in Southampton is huge, as it is attracting a really high proportion of British guests,” he adds. “2024 is a great window to be launching Queen Anne.”