patch nine

4 minutes ago, Aussieflyer said:

looks tropical

yep - very attractive

41 minutes ago, MicCanberra said:

Patch nine, can go now, they did all the work.

Actually Google did most of the work.

Where was I?

Nan Lian Garden

Hong Kong, Golden Pavilion

Amsterdam

Grouse Mountain, Vancouver

4 minutes ago, MicCanberra said:

Paris Napolean's Tomb, Les Invalides

Correct but 1 point deducted for spelling (Napoleon) 🙂 

2 minutes ago, BrissieB said:

Bingo.  Tag you're it.

 

This is the second oldest shipwreck in Australia found at the WA Shipwrecks Museum in Frementle.

Yes, we visited last year

Where am I?

what about the Batavia in the Shipwreck Museum in Fremantle?

11 minutes ago, MicCanberra said:

Singapore

Correct.  On a boat trip along the river

where was I?

Pancake Rocks, west coast on south island of NZ (can't remember the name of the place)

We were insured with Woolworths for a cruise in November, policy taken out about January I think.  We applied for a refund in June when we knew the cruise wouldn't go ahead and they refunded our premium in full, paying it back to our credit card that we used to pay.

Our October cruise on the Majestic was cancelled about 2 weeks before the final payment was due.   However they seem to be cancelling cruises in blocks rather than individually so it will depend when the next "block" of cancellations is announced.

7 hours ago, windsor26 said:

Princess are still offering cruises this year the one I booked to Fiji in October is still being offered as well as others at that time

 

We are booked on this cruise on the Majestic and yesterday received an email advising us we need travel insurance for New Caledonia!  There is no way this cruise will depart so hopefully we get advised of its cancellation by final payment date of 12 August.   

I read on another site that 200 Aussies  were flown into Sydney last night on a repatriation flight from Hawaii.  Presumably from Norwegian Jewel

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/troubled-cruise-ship-2000-passengers-docks-honolulu-69741376

We usually ask our room steward when he comes to introduce himself and we always receive them soon after

The cabins are no longer being serviced so no clean sheets or towels.  I wonder what will happen about laundry - everyone will soon be running out of clean undies!  

where is the coastal cruise going?  If you are heading to North Qld and Willis Island is on the itinerary then the duty free will be open.

Don't know about the Sun, but I was on the Sea Princess (sister ship) in November and I just checked my cruise card and see there is a hole punched in it.  I never use a lanyard but my cruise cards have always come with the hole already punched, including last November.

I got annoyed watching the show last night as some of it was wrong.  I was on that same cruise and she got the order of ports wrong.  We went from Geraldton to Broome and then Exmouth on the return.  Yet on the program she said she disembarked at Broome.  She was right that we had to skip Exmouth but had she disembarked in Broome she wouldnt have been able to film the captain's announcement about not going into Exmouth!!   Also the cruise down to Albany and then the one to Broome were back to back cruises so she couldn't have visited the east coast in between as the program showed.  

43 minutes ago, GUT2407 said:

Is that a relocation cruise or an Australia round trip?

12 days South Pacific out of Sydney

2 hours ago, GUT2407 said:

Same as they don’t offer the water package, nor I think the cans I’d soft drink package. We seem to miss out on a few offers, no idea why.

I am booked on the Majestic in October next year and have noticed that these are now available on the personaliser.  Have just checked and the canned soda package is AU$17.11 (6 cans for the price of 5); bottled water AU$10.27 for 12.  There are also 3 beer packages as well as one for sparkling water, but no wine packages that I can see.

we were on Sea Princess last  month.  I just checked the patter and the last tender from Port Douglas was 5.30pm.  Departure was 6pm.

Not sure whether it makes a difference but the port where we brought our wine on with no checking was a tender port.  At a later port we did see the alcohol table set up just past the security screening.