Award Winning Adventure

17th July 2019 / Media Release from True North Adventure Cruises / Cruise Critic awards the top cruise lines in 18 regions across the globe in its annual Cruiser’s Choice Destination Awards

14th August 2017 / Media Release from TRUE NORTH ADVENTURE CRUISES / True North Recognised Among World’s Top Travel Experiences. Revered Adventure-Cruise Ship Listed in the Chad Clark Certified 25! The adventure-cruise ship TRUE NORTH has been recognized as one of the world’s top experiential travel offerings at the inaugural CHAD CLARK CERTIFIED 25, a first-of-its-kind travel initiative that lists the world’s top 25 travel experiences.

True North Adventure Cruises has been declared Best Australian Adventure Experience and Best Luxury Expedition Cruise at Luxury Travel’s annual Gold List Awards. True North has now won multiple Gold List awards every year since 2013 including 5 consecutive wins as Best Australian Adventure Experience. The total number of Gold List Awards won during the same period has reached a hard to ignore 13 wins! Brand director Peter Trembath said “The high number of wins demonstrates the outstanding levels of customer satisfaction associated with an adventure-cruise on the TRUE NORTH.”

8th November 2016 / Best for Adventure Award: TRUE NORTH / Cruise Critic®, the world’s leading cruise review site has announced its first-ever Cruise Critic Editors Picks Awards exclusively for Australian cruise operators. The awards name the best cruise lines in more than 15 categories and are featured on Cruise Critic’s dedicated Australian site.

True North Adventure Cruises Australia and the company’s revered adventure-cruise ship TRUE NORTH, have again won a trifecta of awards at Luxury Travel’s 2016 Gold List Awards. For the third time in just four years the company (under its prior trading name North Star Cruises Australia) secured wins in three of the Award’s most coveted categories – Best Australian Adventure Experience, Best Luxury Cruise Company and, Best Cruise Ship (Small).

The adventure-cruise ship TRUE NORTH has again won the coveted award for Best Australian Adventure Experience at Luxury Travel magazine’s annual Gold List Awards. The ship was also voted Best Luxury Cruise Ship (Small) and has now won an impressive eight Gold List awards in just 3 years. North Star Cruises Australia’s general manager, Peter Trembath, said the company’s long term loyalty to brand and, a culture of attention to detail and personal service was responsible for North Star’s consistent award-winning performance.

North Star Cruises Australia and the True North have once again been chosen as the best Australian Adventure Experience, Best Cruise Ship (Small) and Best Cruise Company at this year’s Luxury Travel Magazine Gold List Awards. That makes back to back wins in three categories, another unprecedented achievement! North Star’s general manager, Peter Trembath, responded “We are truly humbled that our loyal guests would vote so consistently for our small company … Obviously we couldn’t achieve such success without considerable support from our much appreciated previous guests.”

Australia’s premier luxury adventure-cruise ship, the True North, has scooped the ‘Best Expedition or Adventure Cruising Ship’ prize at the prestigious 2013 Australian Gourmet Traveller Readers’ Choice Awards. Gourmet Traveller praised the ship for being ‘a genuine expedition cruise that bypasses the tourist routes in favour of steering passengers well off the beaten track’. It was also commented that ‘with 25 years of Kimberley exploration under its hull, no cruise line knows the charms of Australia’s wild-west coastline better than North Star.’

The TRUE NORTH is the first ever three category winner at the prestigious Luxury Travel Magazine Gold List Awards. The awards are the result of a survey in which thousands of Luxury Travel Magazine readers and Virtuoso travellers are asked to nominate their favourite hotels, spas, cruise lines, airlines and destinations in over 34 individual categories. Australia’s premier adventure-cruise ship, True North, scooped 2013 Gold Awards in three categories: Best Small Luxury Cruise Ship, Best Luxury Cruise Company, Best Australian Adventure Experience.

We are very pleased to annouce that we are finalists for the 2013 Australian Gourmet Traveller Travel Awards: ‘Best Expedition or Adventure Cruising’ category. Please ‘VOTE NOW’ to vote for us, thanks for your support!

North Star Cruises Australia is pleased to announce more acclaim for the renowned cruise ship TRUE NORTH. The TRUE NORTH was recently voted Best Soft Adventure Cruise Ship in Cruise Passenger Magazine’s annual reader’s awards.

North Star Cruises Australia, which operates the luxury adventure cruise ship, True North, has been inducted into the WA Tourism Awards Hall of Fame. North Star has secured three consecutive tourism awards in the category of Adventure Tourism, resulting in entry into the coveted Hall of Fame during a gala ceremony in Perth at the weekend.

Its official – North Star Cruises Australia is headed for the Western Australian tourism Hall of Fame. The company recently secured its third consecutive win at the 2007 WA Tourism Awards and, entry into the coveted Hall of Fame! North Star’s general manger, Mr. Peter Trembath, claimed entry into the Hall of Fame as industry recognition of North Star’s sustained performance at the highest level.

A National Tourism Award has helped kick-off 20th Year Anniversary celebrations for the multi-award winning North Star Cruises Australia. The National Tourism Awards were announced in Sydney on Friday night and for the second consecutive year, Australia’s bench-mark adventure-cruise operator won the coveted award for Adventure-Tourism. The award comes as North Star prepares to celebrate 20 years as the market leader. With a panache for superlative service, North Star has now won no less than 3 national awards for excellence in tourism and, a ‘swag of’ state tourism awards.

North Star Cruises has won the coveted Adventure Tourism category at the National Tourism Awards. The award follows recent awards for exporting and, a big night at the West Australian Tourism Awards when the company was voted best performer in 3 categories. North Star director Craig Howson said that it was easy to see why the company was so successful. “We have the best adventure-cruise ship in the world, the best crew in the world and, our program includes some of the best wilderness destinations in the world”.

North Star Cruises Australia is celebrating three awards at the 2005 Western Australian Tourism Awards: Significant Tour & Transport Operators, Adventure Tourism, New Tourism Development. The awards represented a pinnacle in a year of tremendous success – with the company having already celebrated the launch of the new 50 metre True North in February and, the ship’s recent arrival in Papua New Guinea in preparation for the maiden ‘Adventure in Paradise ‘ cruise.