Cunard Line unveils 2025 Winter Program

   March 3, 2023 ,   Cruise Industry

The Carnival Corporation-owned Cunard Line announced its Winter 2025 program, offering 133+ voyages, with calls at 159 destinations around the globe.

Flagship liner Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria, and the brand's newest ship Queen Anne are due to visit 57 different countries, with 6 maiden calls for the fleet in Alaska, Australia, Japan, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu. The highly anticipated Queen Anne is to be the only Cunard liner to offer a full World Voyage in 2025.

The company also announced Queen Elizabeth's 2024 summer program in Alaska: the ship sails 10 roundtrip voyages from Vancouver BC, ranging from 9 to 11 nights. Queen Elizabeth visits Hubbard Glacier and Glacier Bay National Park as well as Juneau, Ketchikan, Icy Strait Point, and more. She is scheduled to make 2 maiden calls at Wrangell and Misty Fjords.

Queen Anne sets sail on her first World Voyage on January 9th, 2025, visiting 5 continents and stopping at 30+ ports on this 107-night journey, roundtrip from Southampton UK. She offers 9 overnights in destinations like Honolulu, Hong Kong, Dubai, and Sydney, as well as 3 late-evening departures, giving passengers time to explore each port city to the fullest.

Queen Anne's Itinerary Highlights include:

Queen Mary 2 divides her time between sailing in the Caribbean/Transatlantic Crossings from January through to May 2025, with additional sailings in the Mediterranean. Itineraries range between 7-35 nights and depart from New York City, Southampton UK, and Civitavecchia-Rome (Italy). The liner offers 4 overnights at Curacao, Funchal, Lisbon, and New York City, with 3 late-evening departures in Bridgetown, Vigo, and Malaga.

Queen Mary 2 Itinerary Highlights include:

  • 8-night Westbound Transatlantic Crossing from Southampton UK (March 8th, 2025)
  • 13-night Eastern Caribbean roundtrip from New York (March 16th, 2025).

Queen Victoria offers 8 voyages in South America in early 2025 that can be combined for the 85-night South America Discovery out of Hamburg which features sailing around Cape Horn, the southernmost point of Tierra del Fuego archipelago, Chile. Queen Victoria offers 5 overnight calls in Amsterdam, Rio, Buenos Aires, and Callao and 5 late-evening departures.

Queen Victoria's Itinerary Highlights include:

  • 11-night Atlantic Coast Adventure roundtrip from Southampton UK (December 5th, 2024)
  • 7-night Amsterdam, Bruges and Hamburg roundtrip from Southampton UK (Jan 2nd, 2025).

Queen Elizabeth is due to spend June through to September 2024 in Alaska with roundtrip cruises from Vancouver BC. Following a stop in San Francisco CA, she offers itineraries in Australia & New Zealand throughout the fall with sailings ranging from 2 to 38 nights. In February 2025, Queen Elizabeth sails to Singapore and stays in East Asia through May, with visits to Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines. 7 overnight port calls are offered on Queen Elizabeth, including Hong KongHobart, and Osaka with 25 late-evening departures.

Queen Elizabeth's Itinerary Highlights include:

  • 11-night Alaska roundtrip from Vancouver BC (July 11th, 2024)
  • 25-night San Francisco to Sydney Australia ( September 22nd, 2024).

4 Queens Back-to-Back. There are 2 opportunities to sample all 4 Queens in one journey. The experience commences on Queen Victoria in June 2024 when passengers sail the Mediterranean visiting ports in Malta, Croatia, and Italy. After a few days in Rome, they join Queen Anne to visit Spain and the islands of Sardinia and Majorca prior to disembarking in Southampton UK. There, guests join Queen Mary 2 on a westbound Transatlantic Crossing and then fly from New York City to Vancouver BC. Queen Elizabeth hosts the final leg of the journey in Alaska. A similar experience can be taken in the reverse beginning in Alaska, with an eastbound Crossing, sailing the Norway Fjords, and ending in the Mediterranean.

Queen Anne cruise ship

Cunard Line's 2025 winter program 2024 Alaska cruises are available to book at 9:00 a.m. EST on March 16th, 2023. World Club members can book starting at 9:00 a.m. EST on March 15th, 2023.