ORIANA's new lease of life

With just over 2 months left in P&O service we can reveal some further details relating to ORIANA's new life as PIANO LAND.
On Thursday 24th May Star Travel Ocean Cruise, the joint venture between  China Travel Group and COSCO held a press conference to local media explaining it's aims and the product they will be offering, most interestingly a model of ORIANA displayed her new look as PIANO LAND.

The first reveal of PIANO LAND

 While lacking finer details seemingly there will be no external changes to the ship herself aside the change of livery which will see her bow once again being free of any hull art and will retain a blue funnel with added details, while a not a patch on her original P&O livery the overall effect is far from tasteless look the name "PIANO LAND"  might suggest
According to the company's management it's overiding aim is to be "a strong national cruise brand" and in turn "become the leader in the Chinese market", in the past attempts to have a home grown Chinese cruise market have been far less than successful and have all ended in failure with the ships' maintenance being generally poor and the quaility of the product being overall poor, this too the company is looking to change saying "The product would be high-quality with a resort-like experience at sea."
While there is still a lot we do not know about ORIANA under her new owners, we do know she will depart Southampton at midnight on the 10th August and will head for Greece for refit becoming PIANO LAND the name being of honour  Gulangyu Island, which is known as the ‘Island of Music’ because of its reputation for music appreciation, located 5 minutes sailing from Xiamen where she will be home ported.
She will then arrive in China by the Autum when her new life will begin, ORIANA will be gone and P&O will to many be damaged beyond repair.