BALCONY VIEWS

Posted on 12/04/2015

Fred Olsen Cruise Line is about to start the refurbishment to the last of their four ships. When Boudicca debuts in the 2016 - 2017 cruise season she will be all decked out with terrace balconies extending 1.2 metres out from the ship’s bulkhead. The facelift will affect 28 cabins on Lido Deck 7.

Olsen’s managing director Mike Rodwell said, "We experience extremely high demand for balcony cabins across our fleet, in particular on a smaller-sized ship such as Boudicca, and our new terrace balcony cabins are an innovative response to this. We installed the new terrace balcony cabins on sister ship Black Watch during her dry-dock last autumn, and these have proved very popular with our guests." Besides Black Watch, renovations have already been completed on Braemar and Balmoral, all of which went into dry-dock. The work will be done at Germany’s Lloyd Werft shipyard following a 16-night Mediterranean cruise which sailed this week.

This will be Boudicca’s second visit to the dry-dock since 2013 where she had some other work done including a new coffee shop, the Morning Light Pub and the ship's first for-fee dining area, The Grill, an outside space on Deck 6.