P&O Cruises says that there is a growing demand for single cabins in the world of cruise holidays and that the company intends to respond to this demand both on its existing ships as well as on future ships.

The CEO of parent company Carnival UK, David Dingle, was very clear about the company’s intentions when he spoke at the recent naming ceremony of the Adonia. He said the company was “very keen,” when referring to P&O plans to install more single cabins on board their cruise ships.

Strangely enough though, the Adonia makes no provision for single travellers – there is not one single cabin on board. In fact, the only P&O ship with single cabins is the Azura, with 18 in total

Dingle clearly realises this. He said that P&O will have to consider fitting single cabins to existing cruise ships when they go to the dry docks for refurbishment.

He added: “I am very keen to have lots of single cabins on any other ships we may bring into the fleet.”

According to Dingle there was certainly no lack of enthusiasm for expanding single cabins in the fleet, but that they were limited by the reality of an economic recession. In the light of this the parent company Carnival Corporation had no choice but to limit the number of new ships to three per year until 2013.

Dingle also referred to the economics behind running a relatively small ship like the Adonia with its adults-only passenger composition. He said this enabled the company to charge higher than average prices for their cruises.