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from "John Vanini" contains these words:
> The ship was the MV Arion and the meals and service were both brilliant. It
> was a very small ship having only 330 passengers and this made it a very
> friendly ship.
> I mention all the above because, we'd love to do that same cruise again (or
> at least something very, very similar) but at the end of the cruise
> we were
> told that the ship had been sold and the new owner was taking it out of
> service to be re-fitted, re-painted, and re-named. I've searched and
> searched the Internet and 'phoned and emailed various organisations hoping
> that the new owner might re-introduce that cruise but with no luck.
Arion is still Arion of Classis International Cruises, I am surprised
you couldn't find her.
http://www.classicintcruises.com/euro-arion.htm
She is often chartered out to operators from the UK which is perhaps how
you sailed her before? Often her trips are advertised in the UK papers.
There are other small lines/ships doing similar itins too, but not the
run of the mill mass-market US/UK/European lines. Any ABTA agency in the
UK can supply you with her details [if they are worth anything,
sometimes more than P&O, OV & Cunard taxes their brains].
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Pam
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