Star Cruises cancelled a scheduled departure from Hong Kong on Friday evening because of “an unforeseen technical issue”, with angry passengers who waited for hours to board complaining they had been treated like “refugees”. The cruise operator apologised for the cancellation, adding that customers had been offered the option of transferring their booking to another…
As the Star Voyager cruise ship departs Hong Kong and I look out at a sweeping vista of Victoria Harbour, I reflect on how the voyage I am about to embark on marks a special comeback for the ship’s operator, Star Cruises. Over the next four days, we sail eastward to Kaohsiung, Taiwan’s largest port…
Star Cruises will launch its home-port deployment of ships in Hong Kong from June to mid-November, with the firm’s relaunch in Asia coming three years after declaring bankruptcy. The three-decade-old cruise operator announced on Tuesday that its about 1,800-passenger Star Voyager liner was set to commence deployment from Hong Kong as its home base on…