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Topic: Sky Wonder, ex Pacific Sky

Lucas L
First Class Passenger
Member # 6091

posted 06-15-2006 08:32 AM

Hello

The Pacific sky, now renamed Sky wonder is in Greece, in Elefsina shipyards, she is in dry-dock, painting with the Pullmantur livery.

Cheers
Lucas L

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 06-15-2006 08:48 AM

Lucas, can you verify anything with regard to the fact that her first cruise for Pullmantur had to be cancelled due to engine problems? I read that passengers were told just prior to joining aircraft to join her and "riots" ensued?

Pam

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Lucas L
First Class Passenger
Member # 6091

posted 06-15-2006 09:38 AM

Pam, I will ask some infos about that to my greek friends and will tell you what I will learn from them, this evening.
That's right that the first cruise was cancelled for engines troubles and because the ship arrived late in Elefsina. So the refit started only few days ago.

Cheers
Lucas

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lasuvidaboy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4527

posted 06-15-2006 01:35 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Lucas L:

That's right that the first cruise was cancelled for engines troubles and because the ship arrived late in Elefsina. So the refit started only few days ago.
Cheers
Lucas

Engine problems-what a surprise. Is'nt it time for her to be reengined??

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phil_a
First Class Passenger
Member # 3679

posted 06-16-2006 06:53 AM

when she last broke down near singapore, when under P&O, did they repair the problem properly? or just do a patch up job to keep her going until this scheduled dry dock?

If memory serves me right, the pac sky sucessfully completed a couple more 7night cruises before being transfered to pullmantur

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cruiseshipluver
First Class Passenger
Member # 5104

posted 06-16-2006 12:16 PM

wow, she is having some history, how many lines have she been involved with now?

cruiseshipluver

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Maasdam
First Class Passenger
Member # 3858

posted 06-16-2006 12:25 PM

quote:
Originally posted by cruiseshipluver:
wow, she is having some history, how many lines have she been involved with now?
cruiseshipluver

Sitmar, P&O Princess Cruises, P&O Australia, Pulmantour. Till dat 4 of wich 2 owned by P&O and one buy out by the same P&O. Maybe she return to the same comp.

Greetings Ben.

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Lucas L
First Class Passenger
Member # 6091

posted 06-16-2006 01:16 PM

hello

From my greek friends which saw the ship, she is nearly ready . Anyway, PamM they don't have infos about what you ask me yesterday. Sorry

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pungpui
First Class Passenger
Member # 1218

posted 06-17-2006 09:41 AM

Funny in all of the promo material for the new P&O Australia brochures there are still some images of the Sky, but hey that expected considering the history of inaccuracies by their brochure people.

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tazza
First Class Passenger
Member # 5450

posted 06-18-2006 10:09 AM

Speaking of inaccuracies, howabout the fact that they have a pic of the bow of Sky on the homepage of their web site which they is labeled as Sun...?

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 06-18-2006 07:08 PM

There is a lovely photo of her in Pullmantur's livery on Fakta on fartyg. I think she looks super.

Pam

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lasuvidaboy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4527

posted 06-18-2006 09:11 PM

quote:
Originally posted by PamM:
There is a lovely photo of her in Pullmantur's livery on Fakta on fartyg. I think she looks super.
Pam

She does look great. Other than the writing on her hull, she looks best w/the all white hull. Still one of my favorite newer ships.

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mec1
First Class Passenger
Member # 4287

posted 06-18-2006 09:50 PM

I always wished that the powers that be at P&O had assigned her to Britain as the replacement for Canberra instead of the hideous Star Princess - she would have been much more like Canberra in terms of style and scale.....

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andrews
First Class Passenger
Member # 6414

posted 06-18-2006 09:59 PM

That's a great picture - she does look really good and she is my favourite cruise ship - but sorry I have to disagree, i think she looked the best with the blue & yellow stripe of P&O Aust. It made her look longer somehow. But she still does look great in these colours.

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Waynaro
First Class Passenger
Member # 3484

posted 06-19-2006 03:13 AM

The white livery is nice, but some sort of color line across her mid-structure would be much better.

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mike sa
First Class Passenger
Member # 5957

posted 06-20-2006 01:01 AM

A little off topic but why when she is spanish owned and operated and sold almost exclusively to spanish pax is she not called something spanish, why an english name ? Ditto for the rest of the ships owned by other spanish companies - the only firm I can think of who name their ships in their own language (and it is stretching the description of their own language) is Aida and to some extent MSC which of course does market itself worldwide.

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Maasdam
First Class Passenger
Member # 3858

posted 06-20-2006 04:51 AM

quote:
Originally posted by mike sa:
A little off topic but why when she is spanish owned and operated and sold almost exclusively to spanish pax is she not called something spanish, why an english name ? Ditto for the rest of the ships owned by other spanish companies - the only firm I can think of who name their ships in their own language (and it is stretching the description of their own language) is Aida and to some extent MSC which of course does market itself worldwide.

HAPAG named 'mostly there ships after German ports, Holland America Line named there ships after Dutch city's with names ending on DAM ore rivers and added DAM to the name.

The ship herself i never found here attractive and never saw good interior pictures. Only i hope that Pullman can operate the ship trouble free.

Greetings Ben.

[ 06-20-2006: Message edited by: Maasdam ]

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lasuvidaboy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4527

posted 06-20-2006 03:40 PM

quote:
Originally posted by mike sa:
A little off topic but why when she is spanish owned and operated and sold almost exclusively to spanish pax is she not called something spanish, why an english name ? Ditto for the rest of the ships owned by other spanish companies - the only firm I can think of who name their ships in their own language (and it is stretching the description of their own language) is Aida and to some extent MSC which of course does market itself worldwide.

I agree. There are some lovely Spanish names that could be used. Reina del Mar would be a great name for her.

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Ernst
First Class Passenger
Member # 5369

posted 06-20-2006 03:42 PM

...and in the days of Internet it's not really smart - try a google search for Holiday Dream.....

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 06-20-2006 04:04 PM

quote:
Originally posted by andrews:
i think she looked the best with the blue & yellow stripe of P&O Aust. It made her look longer somehow. But she still does look great in these colours.

On Cruceromania's site, there is an artists impression of her in Pullmantur's livery retaining the stripes.. see here

Pam

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andrews
First Class Passenger
Member # 6414

posted 06-20-2006 09:58 PM

Thanks for the link Pam, she looks good like that - although in the picture they've kept not only the stripes, but also the P&O flag!

That photo's taken straight from the P&O brochure - and made to appear like the ship is steaming along, when it's really too close to land! The benefits of photoshop.. P&O also have a digitised image of Pacific Star showing it in almost the same spot - and also seemingly steaming through the water way too fast to be that close to land!

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gaz hants
First Class Passenger
Member # 5749

posted 06-22-2006 03:24 AM

pictures of sky wonder leaving venice 20th june
sadly pullmanturs livery does not do her justice.
the logo, just painted onto the funnel, would be more suited to a global logistics company.
also there is no company standard, for example blue dream which was in venice the day before still sporting a dark hull.
i concluded that despite all of this, the SW is such a great looking ship she shines despite the insipid colour sheme.
she must also be one of the most travelled and throughout her career must have cruised most of the world.

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phil_a
First Class Passenger
Member # 3679

posted 06-22-2006 06:58 AM

does anyone know if the ship had changes to the interior? major refurbishment or simiply changing signage/logos?

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Waynaro
First Class Passenger
Member # 3484

posted 06-22-2006 09:53 AM

She still looks great. It will be time before I get used to seeing her in white again.

Seeing the stern, I wonder when they will add a ducktail to it

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andrews
First Class Passenger
Member # 6414

posted 06-22-2006 11:18 PM

Looking at the deck plans and pictures of the interiors on Pullmantur's website, it doesn't look like they intended to change the interiors much. It's not that long ago (about a year) that they did a bit of a refurbishment job on her as Pacific Sky here in Brisbane. I think they upgraded some of the suites, upgraded the carpet and put a new sound system in the Legend's Bar. On Pullmantur's deck plans even some of the public rooms have kept the same name.

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