Pandaw
Cruise is a fleet of 6 luxury River Cruises
which is exploring five countries. Pandaw Cruise is
among the largest luxury river cruises in Asia.
Whilst Pandaw
offers a real adventure experience, travellers are
cushioned with incredible comfort, fine dining,
great cocktails and choice wines, not to mention
extraordinary levels of service.
Pandaw’s six
ships were built new and designed and finished as
replicas of colonial river steamers. These small
ships have the highest space to passenger ratio of
any ships afloat - our much loved staterooms are 170
square feet and finished in teak and brass.
In 1995,
Pandaw Cruise In Mekong river was the first to
pioneer and explore the region’s great rivers and
their tributaries: the Irrawaddy and Chindwin in
Burma, the Mekong and Tonle Rivers in Cambodia and
the backwaters of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.
These small
ships can penetrate remote and otherwise
inaccessible areas. Whilst Pandaw offer a real
adventure experience, travellers are cushioned with
incredible comfort, fine dining, great cocktails and
choice wines, not to mention extraordinary levels of
service.
Pandaws four
boutique ships Pandaw built new and designed and
finished as replicas of colonial river steamers.
These small ships have the highest passenger to
space ratio of any ships afloat.
Dining is
single sitting with dress smart casual. Pandaw
Cruise in Mekong River also have the highest staff
guest ratio of any ship in the world to ensure an
incredible level of care. It is more like being on a
1920s private yacht party than a cruise ship.
- The much
loved Pandaw Cruise staterooms are spacious at 15
square meters and, whilst finished in traditional
marine brass and teak, have all necessary modcons.
All cabins on main and upper decks open onto
promenade decks with their own seating.
A feature of
all river cruises is the once or twice daily shore
excursions led by expert local guides to explore
Buddhist temples, historical sites, markets and
handicraft workshops.
The Pandaw
Cruise have an ultra shallow draft enabling them to
moor where other larger ships could not stop. Inland
water navigation in these regions is challenging and
the Pandaw Cruise have been specially designed to
cope with constantly changing river conditions.
- Our river
cruises connect Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) with
Angkor Wat via Phnom Penh in Cambodia and cover over
1500 miles of Burmese waterways from Rangoon
(Yangon) to Pagan (Bagan) and Mandalay to Bhamo
close to the China border.
Rudyard
Kipling based his great poem ‘Road to Mandalay’ on
the clunking paddles of Irrawaddy Flotilla Company
paddle steamers. Over the past 150 years other poets
and writers such as Somerset Maugham and George Or
Pandaw ll have celebrated the company and the river.
Successive
Viceroys of India, the Crown Prince of Siam and King
Edward VIII as Prince of Wales, are but a few of
Pandaw's former passengers. Today Pandaw continue to
carry celebrities and royalty, but pride on treating
every passenger the same regardless of fame or rank.