MS Marco Polo Cruise and Maritime Voyages

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• Viking orders four new “green” ocean going ships with Italian Fincantieri shipbuilder
• Best cruises from Southeast Asia from $462pp for five nights
• Disney Cruise Line to sail Australia, sparking a battle for your cruising kids
• Older cruise ships disappear from expedition itineraries due to tightened safety regulations
• How this mum of six booked 100 cabins for Disney’s inaugural Australian season
• REVIEW: MS Marco Polo – Quaint, Quirky, Confused.

Four other former CMV vessels were also put up for auction and have now been sold to another line or for scrap. Usually, in these cases, a ship that’s set to be scrapped will remain just off the coast for up to several days to prepare for a safe beaching. Once a ship is beached it doesn’t take long until the first pieces start getting cut and it usually begins from the bow. The boat had 11 decks, of which 8 passenger-accessible and 7 with cabins.

Viking orders four new “green” ocean going ships with Italian Fincantieri shipbuilder

When walking onto most modern cruise ships you end up thinking “Wow, this is insane”, with the Marco Polo we ended up thinking “Wow, this is what a working boat feels like”. There is no doubt we’re going to see more cruise ships head to the scrapyard especially with cruise line extending their pause on operations much further in 2021. The vessel which was once a popular ocean liner arrived off the coast of Alang, India, and in the early hours of this morning, was finally beached. The ship will not sail again and over the coming months will be scrapped. All CMV ships were placed on the secondhand market and open for sale. In October was planned the vessels to be auctioned via the London UK-based company CW Kellock & Co Ltd (Ship Auctioneers, Brokers and Valuers).

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Biddings (deadline in brackets) opened for Vasco Da Gama (Oct 8), Columbus (Oct 12), Astor (Oct 15), Magellan (Oct 19) and Marco Polo (Oct 22). Purchased by Global Maritime Group in 2007 and currently operated by UK-based Cruise & Maritime Voyages, the vessel was built in 1965 at Mathias Thesen Shipyard in eastern Germany. Due to its age, Marco Polo is not suitable for passengers with special mobility needs. There are many raised-door seals that can restrict passenger movement about the ship.

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Waldorf restaurant's decor is pleasant, however not quite remarkable. It features two sittings, dinners are good and usually exceed expectations for the price level, prepared with much more finesse than breakfasts. Afternoon tea and late-night snacks are also offered on board according to cruising tradition.

Older cruise ships disappear from expedition itineraries due to tightened safety regulations

The space is a very traditional cruise line main dining room, but on a smaller scale. Booths line the windows of the room, with circular tables for groups filling the centre. The guest services manager was “unable to provide” the VAT receipt for our final bill, or any of our drinks orders. Something not quite right is going on aboard CMV’s Marco Polo – and it left an unpleasant taste in our mouths. Whilst we enjoyed our drinks we found that many were made quite differently than we would expect.

After that, the vessel sailed for Transocean Tours, the German subsidiary of Cruise and Maritime Voyages, and later CMV. The Cruise and Maritime Voyage MS Marco Polo has 425 cabins for their guests in 15 different categories. There are 281 cabins with oceanviews and 128 inside cabins on Deck 9 (Amundsen). There are no connecting rooms which are fit for families on a cruise.

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How this mum of six booked 100 cabins for Disney’s inaugural Australian season

Fun fact is that this vessel has a namesake - the 2012-launched "CMA CGM Marco Polo". The vessel is among the world's largest container ships (capacity 16,020 containers) and operated by CMA-CGM Line. MS Marco Polo was built as "Aleksandr Pushkin" in 1965 by Mathias-Thesen Werft (East Germany) for Baltic Shipping Company (USSR-Soviet Union).

Cruise and Maritime Voyages’ demise was not something that many would have seen coming just over twelve months ago. As a cruise line with a steady base of fans and growing steadily over the years, December 2019 saw the purchase of two new vessels. We took the Antarctica 8 day excursion on the MV Marco Polo on January 31st of 2003. This is a bit of information on the Zodiac landings from the ship; it is written in an effort to help those who are on their first excursion and might have apprehensions about this adventure. There is an excellent review of the entire cruise included in this database by Chuck Traveler in the review section under Marco Polo, and it helped us tremendously when we took this cruise. On deck 10, the Jade Wellness Center offers a superb range of beauty treatments, including hairstyling, manicures, pedicures, facials, and massages to soothe weathered souls and worn sea legs.

For a ship of her size we were pleasantly surprised how many bars and lounges the MS Marco Polo had to offer. I’ve never shared a cabin with more than one other person before, but due to the generous size of the cabin and plenty of storage space it was far more enjoyable than I had anticipated. The beds were also incredibly comfortable and suitable for my ~6ft height.

Junior Suites numbers 811 and 812 are with partially obstructed views (due to lifeboats). Pullman beds are foldaway beds (aka bunk beds) that are pulled down either from the wall or from the ceiling. There are four issues per year, with each issue is packed full of must-read features, including cruise news, reviews, destination guides and the most enticing itineraries.

From 1993 to 2008, after an intensive refit, the ship sailed as Marco Polo for Orient Lines. Currently, ms Marco Polo is owned by Global Maritime, under charter to CMV since January 2, 2010. You can see the CMV world cruise 2020 ports list in the ship's Wiki section. Marco's Bistro is an open-seating informal alternative dining venue on the pool deck and guests can eat outdoors, whenever the weather conditions permit so. Marco Polo was refurbished in November 2014 at Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen (shipyard in Vlissingen Holland). The work was done by Damen (ship-repair and vessel conversion company).

Passengers can bring foldable wheelchairs to store in their cabins for shore use. There are also a surprisingly large number of bars for a ship of this size and we always found somewhere to sit – something that can’t be said about many larger ships. The next morning we went to see guest services and pointed out the inconsistency between the dining room bar and all the other bars. We also pointed out even though we’d been paying VAT that the VAT line on each receipt showed £0.00.

The Cruise and Maritime Voyage MS Marco Polo rarely have children on board for a cruise. This ship does not have any formal programs or facilities dedicated for the kids. Due to the smaller size and lack of variety of restaurants and leisure facilities I don’t think I could see myself choosing MS Marco Polo for a full week long cruise, but I’d happily spend another weekend aboard.