The Cruise and Travel Guy

50 🙂 very much exceeded!

Thank you @arxcards for sharing the petition. It was also just featured in a Travel Weekly article so hopefully it gets in front of a few more eye balls. It's certainly not a one-and-done fix, and government may well respond with a, "thanks for your concern, but that's just the way it is" once the petition reaches parliament, but I'm really hoping we can show strength in numbers. Thanks again to everyone for supporting and sharing.

My concern with this changeover is mostly to do with the customer experience in the short term. Come April 2025, we’re being told that travellers cruising on Carnival Adventure will have a completely different experience to those cruising on Carnival Splendor. Far from this information coming just from PR departments however, I later found an interview with CCL President, Christine Duffy from June 5th in which she says: “…but I want to assure everyone that while there is going to be a change for the brand name, we are going to continue operating the P&O Cruises Australia ships post the conversion in March the way that we do today.” I had missed this piece (I’ll blame the fact that I was travelling at the time the news broke 😅) but you can read the entire article on the KarryOn website under cruise industry news. I can’t seem to paste in the link, perhaps my account is too new! I’m incredibly interested (intrigued?) to see how this develops over the next 9-12 months.

Of course - that’s what I understood this topic was about: Carnival Adventure and Carnival Encounter. Voyages on both ships will, according to P&O and Carnival, be consistent with the existing onboard experience as it is currently (with P&O branding) to at least June 2026.

Hi CC team, The information was released by me this morning, and was provided by Carnival's local media and PR team. It reads: "There is no plan to change the pricing structure on Adventure and Encounter after March 2025." Earlier, and in response to clarification I was seeking surrounding the onboard guest experience post March 2025, I received the following statement from P&O's PR team: "Guest experience on board, including the crew, entertainment, dining, as well as including Byron Beach Club & P&O Edge Adventure Park, will remain the same." I hope that helps provide clarity around some of your questions. I had many of the same.