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Fred Olsen Cruises – Black Watch Cruise Ship
Black Watch came into service in November 1996 - she is the third Black Watch in the company’s history. The first was built in 1938 at the same time as the first Black Prince, and both sadly were lost during the Second World War. However, the figurehead from Black Watch, which depicts an officer of The Black Watch regiment, was salvaged and after restoration is now placed in the garden of one of the Olsen estates in Scotland. The second Black Watch was built in 1966 (along with the second Black Prince) and this ship was sold to Nor-Cargo in Bergen in 1986.
The third, and current Black Watch, has already gone through more than one identity. Built originally in 1972 at the Wartsila shipyard in Finland and named Royal Viking Star, she joined sister ships Royal Viking Sea and Royal Viking Sky in what was acknowledged to be one of the finest passenger fleets afloat at the time. With their sleek lines, and elegant overall design, they brought a feeling of traditional sophistication to cruising which, sadly, has been lost in some of the bigger ‘floating hotels’ that form today’s modern cruise fleets.
This elegance and sophistication has not been lost, and her future with Fred. Olsen ensures the continuation of this elegant age of cruising.
Public Areas
• Whether she's full to her 798 passenger capacity based on two to a cabin, or sailing with every one of her 897 beds and berths taken, the Black Watch has a lot of public spaces. While you will find her deck chaired clad wrap around open promenade deck enticing, you might occasionally feel energetic enough for some of her topsides sporting areas....and she has good exercise spaces, both outside and in a very well equipped gymnasium. You might also wish to swim, because she's got a fairly decent sized pool for a cruise ship...and if you wish to be wet and lazy, a few steps aft of the Marquee Pool Bar are a couple of pristine Jacuzzis, ideal for baking out those aquavit based hangovers. In the right weather, you could spend all your time outside, and hardly notice that you had not been inside at all, so extensive and lavishly arranged are this ship's deck areas. But there is so much for you inside that you're going to want to spend sometime within the ship, no matter what the weather. The only problem you're going to have is deciding when, where and what you're going to do.
• The Observatory, has a full service bar, and those big floor to ceiling windows, through where you can watch the ocean pass by...it's pretty nifty in port, too, great for a birds eye view of whatever.
• Fred Olsen put a lot of thought into the concept and a lot of money into the execution of these spaces...
Dining
• On the breakfast buffet, where diners help themselves to a wide variety of both good and bad for you food, Black Watch breakfasts are where you’ll like to start a lot of our days. Norwegians love a buffet table. The big Glentanar Restaurant and smaller Orchid Room serve dinners in two sittings, but Fred. Olsen has provided for you fans of "alternate" dining, serving a different menu at an open sitting by reservations only, in the Garden Cafe.
Cabins
• All cabins have private facilities, TV, and hairdryer. They have one of the best and most cleverly arranged system of storage space ever seen at sea. Ninety percent of them are outside rooms, all with either two portholes or a nice big window. Another area where this ship excels is how she accommodates single travellers. The Black Watch has four types of singles - inside, outside, and superior outside and although they aren’t not cheap, there's no exorbitant supplement for them either. If you want a single cabin, don't dally in deciding, these wildly popular cabins sell out almost a year ahead! But for two travelling together, you have thirteen kinds of cabin categories to consider.
Fred Olsen Line Cruise Ships
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Black Watch |
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