OzWolf

We were just on the Eclipse Hawaii to Sydney and were told for cruises 11 nights or longer, Select get a U$20 bag of regular laundry and fold (not dry clean) which we took advantage of by stuffing the bag like the $49.95 challenge.

We weren't told what the discount is for shorter cruises and forgot to ask specifically :P

Hi all,

I apologise in advance if something covering this question has been answered before, but my Search Fu might be lacking :P

I have a simple question: how crowded does BodyGlove get on cruise ship days?

My wife and I will be in Kailua-Kona with Celebrity Solstice. We normally like to organise excursions independently with local operators, but the factors of time, distance and occasional abandonment of tendering at the port leave us really only willing to look at the shore excursion offered by Celebrity, which is supplied by BodyGlove.

For people who have used this excursion through a cruise line, how crowded does the boat get?

We're just trying to weigh up the options of a snorkeling trip or an alternative tour at this stop.

We're booked with Sail Maui in Laihana, so we will get some snorkeling in on the cruise :)

Cheers,

OzWolf

Thank you all for your assistance and answers.

Have now successfully booked on the Solstice for the Vancouver to Honolulu leg in the exact same cabin as our Honolulu to Sydney leg: C2 on the hump angle giving us a deeper balcony.

More time around Vancouver and the ship we wanted all the way...the Wife Acceptance Factor has gone up by a scale of about 1,000 :D

I will try and find the thread from last year where someone around 40 or so people doing what you are doing had to get off the ship in Victoria and catch up with it in Seattle due to PSVA. It could have been the other way around but I would not right away say it doesn't effect you

 

Edit: Cruise Critic's search function appears not to be working, put in a lot of variables and came up with nothing. Just to see what's going I I put in dress code and it stated nothing could be found.

 

Here's one of those threads, don't know from info supplied whether it applies to you but I would definitely look into it. Apparently wasn't 40 people but 200

 

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2354230&highlight=Victoria%2C+BC++PSVA

Ah, looking at that, my understanding is that people were doing B2B cruises of Honolulu to Vancouver then Vancouver to Seattle. This violated the PVSA law because it effectively became a foreign-flagged vessel transporting passengers from Honolulu to Seattle, so the passengers had to disembark in Canada (so it became US-to-foreign port) to not violate the rule.

My bracketing ports on my B2B cruises are Vancouver and Sydney, with the cruise swap occurring in Honolulu only. Neither cruise I want on the Solstice is doing a US-to-US itinerary and the itinerary overall is not US-to-US either, which is why I was questioning what we were being told.

Thanks!

In this case, I do not hold the TA too much to account on this one as she was misinformed by her wholesaler and she was just the messenger.

But glad my own understanding of the rules was correct.

Cheers,

Oz

Hey guys,

After some clarification and/or verification on the PSVA rules.

My wife and myself are booking on the Celebrity Solstice's Honolulu - Sydney reposition cruise next year (October 2018). We decided we wanted to visit Vancouver and basically do back-to-back on the Solstice from Vancouver to Sydney.

Our travel agent has informed us that this breaches the PSVA rules, but I can't find any examples for our scenario saying it does breach the rules (plenty examples of US to US ports).

We have a hold on a Carnival Legend cabin doing the Vancouver - Honolulu leg a week earlier, but would prefer to spend more time in Vancouver this time.

Basically, I want to know would back-to-back cruises of Vancouver - Honolulu then Honolulu - Sydney on the Solstice breach PSVA policy?

Cheers!

Oz