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Although the biosecurity act has been extended till mid April, the restrictions on cruise ships could be lifted at any time. Different things are added and removed from the act from time to time even though it remains in place.

1 hour ago, Hogbay said:

Thanks for that link it's great news that Scott Morrison has lifted the bio order now what state will be the first to act .?

It doesn't actually say the bio-order has been lifted. I read it as the states will determine when cruising will restart once the bio-security orders are lifted. Does anyone have a link to anything showing the order has been lifted or not?

"National Cabinet agreed that following a decision by the Commonwealth to lift the bio-security orders that currently prevent cruise ships from coming to Australia that states and the Northern Territory would then determine when recommencement of cruises would occur in each jurisdiction"

11 hours ago, Ethanol95 said:

The unnamed vessel is Serenade of The Seas

So she's back for another season then. Pity we don't get anything new.

11 minutes ago, Ethanol95 said:

It doesn't look like an O class by the port listings. The unamed vessel has quite a few 3 night and a mix of 8, 9, 10, 11 night itineraries. Sounds pretty similar to Ovation's itineraries. The 3 night itineraries would seem rather odd if their goal for an O class ship was to bring it to Perfect day Lelepa. Doubt 5000 passengers want to go on an Oasis class for 3 nights to end up going nowhere. But it's also interesting to note that sister ships Ovation AND Voyager are also home-ported in Sydney. Leads me to think perhaps, it could be a Radiance Class ship rather than an Oasis class one. Also Perfect day at lelepa is only opening in Q2 of 2022. 

You may be right there, but it is unusual for the Port Authority to list an unnamed ship. There is usually a placeholder listed, I think it was Explorer or Voyager for the Ovation before her Aussie deployment was announced. In the 2021-2022 season, Serenade is no longer listed, so maybe another in her class which would be a disappointment for some people I know who sail on RCI a lot from Sydney and would love something different.

Attached is RCIs full summer season out of Sydney.

Just now, Biker19 said:

Unlikely an O class ship would do anything but 7 day cruises.

Aussies generally don't like short cruises, except for the party ships. many prefer longer holidays, so 10 days to the islands and back or 12 to 14 days around New Zealand are the norm.

22 hours ago, Ethanol95 said:

Have a source?

 

I'd say the Sydney Port Authority's listing of an unnamed ship is likely to be the Wonder OTS.

Possibly just sailings out into the ocean and back, plus some to the islands (their new private island?) all during the summer cruise season.

We're going to be on the Riveria deck, but under the Hollywood conservatory. I assume we will be in front of the smokers (we are on the starboard side). so hopefully we will be ok. On our last Princess cruise the smokers were on the port side.

This is all good info. We're looking into flying up to Italy and have found we can combine two MSC cruises to visit both sides of the country. We were going to visit our travel agent to see if we could find a different cruise company to use, however reading these comments MSC looks fine and there appears to be many similarities between it and our experiences sailing Princess (it actually sounds better). I have two cruises booked already before this one though including a RCI and another Princess, so it will be good to try something different anyway.

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