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Pete,thx for the updates. Did anyone ask whether The Pole to Pole would sell segments at some point if full cruise doesnt sell out?  Also whether there will be a Grand Asia in the Fall for 2026?  Appreciate all your communications and pictures

2 hours ago, mwj said:

HAL has released a 42 day cruise roundtrip from Sydney in Jan 26.

 

We put the 28 day legendary voyage on hold Fri and booked it today. Does Sydney to Auckland starti g Jan 4th 2026. We had been to NZ before but will add some time at the end. Looks like a great itinerary. 

Where are you seeing Fall of 2025? Only seeing Europe  Asia and South America for Sept on

Alaska is up, Canada too.

3rd party sights have Aus/NZ but no prices until a few days ago.

PCC says Hal is working on them.

I heard that mid Nov from the future cruise consultant on S America cruise so still waiting 2 months later.

On 9/14/2023 at 6:41 PM, Gary72 said:

We are on your cruise as noted in the roll call.  We are arriving on July 7 and have reservation at Reykjavik Residence Hotel/Apartments.  It gets rave reviews on tripadvisor....

We are at this same hotel Gary, arriving in the evening on July 7th.  Booked it right after booking cruise because it sells out quickly.    I did the Golden Circle tour 25 years ago but my friend hasn't so will do that one day and Snaefellsness Peninsula another day.Puffin trip and some time in Reykjavik too.    

Karen

Apologies if this has been posted. Just noticed Europe cruises are on Hal site thru Nov 2025. Alaska also up thru September/Oct 2025.

Waiting for S.Pacific or NZ/Aus or possible Grands for the Oct Nov timeframe.

I only looked at April and May nit itineraries are there.

2025 Europe is now on Hal site.  I clicked on April and  May and cruises I looked at on 3rd party sites are there. fyi

Thanks for posting.  I was hoping the TA with Canary Islands would be repeated in 2025. Also like the Baltics with Latvia,Lithuania and Estonia depending on what is going on in Ukraine by then.

Perhaps these will be on the Hal site next week.

We were in CB last August on N.Statendam. I set up a tour with Ride In Style and went to Gros Marne, a lighthouse stop where we had a moose step out of the woods about 25feet away, then a lunch stop. The scenery along the way was stunning!  Enjoy.

13 hours ago, lissie said:

Have they been to East Timor before? That is really quite a difficult country to get to and I've never seen  it on even an expedition style cruise itinerary? 

Yes. I did the 2018 Maasdam cruise which included E Timor. Did a private tour and found it fascinating. One of our trivia group used to go there for work several times a year and gave us lots of background on history etc.

Saw the historical highlights, beautiful coastlines as yet undeveloped and had a lovely lunch at a restaurant up in the hills.  E.Timor isn't for everyone but we enjoyed seeing it.

Several cruises for Asia, South America, Aus/NZ and South Pacific are now on the website.

Some interesting new itineraries.

Why do you think it might be this itin Pete? It's the one I voted for because I would love to do the Rio to Barcelona segment ( or Buenos Aires to Lis). Fingers crossed!

Did a futuredam deposit back in Dec.

Do to dog, can't do longer than a segment currently, but will be on a 2024 segment.

Yes. I can't make payments, book dining or shore ex etc for 2 weeks now. Just get service error message. Sometimes it lets me get as far as putting something in the cart but when you go to shopping cart it says there is nothing in your cart.  So Frustrating!!

So I call Hal to book and wait on hold forever to get someone whose English comprehension is not always the best. They try to be helpful but they have a script to work thru and anything off script causes problems.

Don't understand why Hal continues to be OK with these system problems.

32 minutes ago, Red Haired Lady said:

Thank you.  And I don't see an end date for this promo other than "limited time while supplies last." Has this been going on for some time?  I also see similar offers for other cruise lines. 

 

https://www.aarp.org/rewards/redeem/#sort-by=default

 

It started today and ends May 8th.

Just saw the Mothers Day gift card bonus promo starts April 19 thru May 8th. I bought these last year when they did a promo and used to pay off cruises. Bonus cards expire June 30 2023.  fyi

Grand Africa is now on Hal site. No segments.

What are the 2 segments being offered? thx for any info!

I just checked cruisemapper for our Sept 28,2022 Oosterdam cruise. It shows Marghera as do some Volendam cruises. However 2023 cruises are showing Trieste again.

Hard to plan. Had made flights last week to Ljubljana for 5 days then an hour  drive to Trieste.  Looking at switching to Venice.

1 hour ago, whirlybird3 said:

What is CREW APPRECIATION (US$100 value per person)?  Is this the complimentary gratuities? 

My PCC said the $100 is not combinable with

the early booking bonus offer on the 2023 cruises. We got $100 each for the early booking but you get one or the other. 

On a new booking for 2023 we did receive full crew incentive. Confusing for all!

6 hours ago, KirkNC said:

I would say book it if you really want to go.  We are in uncharted territory with a much larger ship.  I think HAL realizes this which maybe why they opened the 2924 segments so early.  It does require a larger deposit then a typical cruise, the full cruise requires $7,000, not sure about a segment.

Our deposit for 36 day segment is $1500.

We had a futuredam placeholder on the 23 and 24 WC for over a year(more for 23)

With the 23 close to sold out I cancelled our futuredam and focused on 24. I was very surprised to have our segment request come thru this far out.

 Obviously segments are guarantees at this point. 

18 minutes ago, richwmn said:

you can only do this if you are booked directly with HAL. Most TA websites have a similar function, at least mine does.

 

good point. I have a PCC and then pretty much take care of everything myself after initial deposit.

You can pay as often as you would like.  Easy to do online. Go to holland america site, click already booked , either go to account or manage bookings, select booking # and find make a payment and enter info.

I did this for the 1st time this year as I have several booked for the next 2 years and I can use different cc depending on where I want to get points. Plus I don't have to bother PCC

I just received updated confirmation including the credit on a 2023 Alaska cruise booked a few weeks ago. Had received an email about the mariners perk this a.m which stated it was retroactive and nothing needed to be done by me. An hour later it had been included.

7 hours ago, Tampa Girl said:

I don't have the numbers so perhaps someone else can chime in.  It is my understanding, however, that Cunard has more segments relative to their itinerary than does HAL.  Is that correct?  How many segments were scheduled, for instance on the HAL 2020 WC?

I believe there were 4 segments on 2020 WC although it might have been 5.

I was scheduled for the Singapore to Sydney after waitlisting. Found out we cleared the list 13 months out. We seemed to be the only ones on cc that got a segment.

Of course we know how our segment ended up! Shortly before we left, Singapore was cancelled then itin changed then the mad scramble for those onboard.

Waitlisted on 23 WC segment but not optimistic this time since waitlist for full cruise is so full they cut it off. 

we put $100 on the 2023 Grand. They have it listed as Grand Fall since its a work in progress and cant say if its Asia or another part of the world.