Rumours about ORIANA

In 2008 with the entry in to service of VENTURA and the announcement of another crown class vessel to be delivered 2 years later rumours began to spread on the Internet that it was possible that one of P&O's existing fleet would be transferred to one of the other brands of Carnival.
One of the most repeated of these began on P&O's website Forum section where a passenger who claimed to have contacts within the company said that they had heard that ORIANA was to be transferred to the infomal Ocean Village brand as OCEAN VILLAGE THREE.

Of course there was no truth behind the rumours and a year later it was announced that the brand would be discontinued with the existing ships being transferred to P&O Cruises Australia as Pacific Jewel and Pacific Pearl respectively .

Although the notion of ORIANA herself in such a role is a strange one, her former fleet mate ARCADIA (1997) became the first OCEAN VILLAGE in 2003.

Below are two photographs taken by Nuno Jesus of ORIANA & ARCADIA docked together in Funchal, Madeira on the 9th October 2001.

Photos Copyright : Nuno Jesus.