Celebrity Edge has arrived in Australia for its second season in the region, with the 2,908-passenger vessel set to sail 17 itineraries from homeport Sydney.

If you thought cruising couldn’t get any more luxurious than it already is, wait to you see The Retreat on Celebrity Cruises’ Celebrity Edge. This is a ship-within-a-ship, an exclusive enclave for just 320 passengers and it’s selling like hot cakes.

Stepping aboard a luxurious cruise ship for the first time, especially one that cost a whopping US$1 billion (AU$1.5 billion) to build sure stirs the senses, and so it is with Celebrity Edge on its debut season in our waters.

Celebrity Cruises’ Celebrity Edge set sail on Saturday from Sydney, Australia for the first time, taking guests on a 12-night itinerary exploring the coastlines, majestic fjords and cosmopolitan cities of New Zealand. Highlights of the itinerary include an overnight stay in Auckland, wine tasting in the vineyards near Napier, the pastoral beauty of Dunedin and the breath-taking Dusky, Doubtful, and Milford Sounds in New Zealand’s South Island.

Celebrity Cruises celebrated the highly anticipated arrival of its first Edge-Series ship, Celebrity Edge, in Australian waters last weekened.

Celebrity Cruises says it posted its single largest booking day ever on Black Friday, followed by its strongest Cyber Monday in history.

Invented back in the Middle Ages, gin, an Aussie gin at that, is about to be shaken and stirred on Celebrity Cruise ships embarking out of our ports.

Celebrity Cruises is recognising International Women’s Day today [8 March 2022], by replacing its iconic ‘X’ logo to ‘XX’ representing the female chromosome.

Celebrity Cruises’ third Edge class series ship, Celebrity Beyond, has successfully completed her sea trials and returned to the Chantiers de l’ Atlantique shipyard in Saint Nazaire, Franc for final fit-out.

Celebrity Cruises has released a new 52-night Grand Journey from Rome to Sydney in 2023 aboard Celebrity Edge. The voyage acts as the positioning cruise for the first Edge-class ship to Oceania waters.

Celebrity Cruises will deploy all three of its Edge-class ships – Celebrity Edge, Celebrity Apex and Celebrity Beyond – to Europe in 2023.The ‘Edge’ ships will join four other vessels in Europe as part of the program, including recently revamped Celebrity Silhouette, as well as Celebrity Constellation, Celebrity Infinity and Celebrity Reflection.

Celebrity Cruises set a new record during last week’s 2023/24 season launch with bookings exceeding previous local launches by four times.