Johhno

It was great to meet you Stu and your mum.We will continue on and do the last few days to Sydney.

Safe travels home.

Cheers Johhno.

17 hours ago, NSWP said:

The two cruises we did in and out of Honolulu were from the Aloha Tower berth. Where do they park these days?

We were docked at Pier 10 on the Grand and the Coral was docked at Pier 2.

20 hours ago, OzKiwiJJ said:

Grand Princess isn't new to Australia, she was here last season homeporting in Melbourne. We cruised on her last March - Melbourne to Sydney via South Australia. 

 

We'll be trying Resilient Lady in February thanks to the Velocity points offer. 😊

We are currently on the Grand Princess heading to Hawaii and the rumour is onboard she’s going over to PO Cruises Aust later next year.

That’s awesome Stu, hope to see you and mum onboard. We board on the 26th in San Fran.

Cheers,

Johhno.

Doing a repo cruise on the Grand Princess next month. Flying into US 8 days prior to the cruise then boarding in San Fran and cruising back to Syd.

We are currently on the Grand Princess NZ cruise. Some ports (for example,Tauranga) have tours dock side that you can book on the spot. We did miss Napier due to bad weather. 

Some ports there are shuttle buses offered from port to city but I also suggest you research before you leave home the cost of using public transport and local attractions you can book on the day.

On board the Grand now,we left on the 4th Nov.

Assigned group A and arrived at 10.45am as we stayed overnight prior in the city.Upon arrival was told boarding wasnt open till 11.30 but we could drop our bags so we did and went for a coffee.Went back at 11.45am(bit a chaos in terminal)and in stateroom by 12.50PM. I believed it didn’t go well after this with people onboard saying it took some up to 3 hours+ to board.

Not sure what’s going to happen with boarding times for the next cruise on the 17th Nov as they might want to do a spring clean as we have Covid onboard.

7 hours ago, OzKiwiJJ said:

Unfortunately we won't be in Melbourne on Friday.

 

Due to weather conditions, plus the medical emergency just after leaving Busselton, we won't arrive in Adelaide until Thursday. They haven't announced which of the remaining ports - Melbourne, Burnie or Hobart - will be axed.

Yes, according to Melbourne ports you are now arriving at 6.00am Sat 5th at station pier Melb.

Just reported on the 4.00PM 7 News here in Perth that the Coral will no longer be stopping at Geraldton due to bad weather conditions on Thursday 27th.

Hi all, we are cruising next month on the Grand and looking at booking another cruise for next year whilst on board.

For those that have booked a future cruise onboard, is there any advantage to booking with the Cruise consultant as opposed to booking direct on the Princess website?

Cheers Johhno.

Another vote for,

Stockholm/Archipelago & Kotor.

Grand Princess is now fitted with Aussie power points.

( pic from an aussie currently onboard)

On 9/5/2022 at 4:46 PM, arxcards said:

I wonder if you were just fobbed-off without any real checks being done. No Aussie outlet on Grand, but I wonder if they have USB jacks in their cabins? 

 

Might be time to look for something that doesn't need to plug in, unless they are banned because of the glare 😉

https://www.kmart.com.au/product/portable-charger-with-solar-42923688/

6 hours ago, OzKiwiJJ said:

They have decided it's "unsafe". 🙄🤬

 

Very strange indeed.

 

I'll take it with us when we go on Grand out of Melbourne next year. That will be interesting.

Ill be taking my Aldi board with me on the Grand this November.Fingers crossed.

Applied for our Share Holder benefit for our Nov 2022 Grand Princess cruise last Wed 17th August and received an email Sat 20th August saying that our $ 100.00 benefit had been applied to our booking.

I immediately checked online and sure enough it was there in our booking.

'shareholderbenefit@carnivalaustralia.com' was the email i used from the info on this post.

Thanks to all for the correct email to use.

Cheers,

Johhno.

Booked on the 4th Nov Grand Princess but not holding my breath.

Current Princess cancellations.

AUS_Cancel43DIMJRPRU2022_23Internal.pdf

Does anyone have any info on a Princess Cruise Australia re structure?

I have had a recent email informing me that I have a new "Cruise Holiday Planner here at Princess Cruises". So this now takes it to my 3rd new planner this year with Princess, 4 in total.

We had to make an amendment with our pending cruise so I tried to contact my new planner. After 3 phone calls and leaving messages & several emails in the past 2 days I gave up.

So today was my CONTACT PRINCESS mission day to try and speak to my planner.

I tried the following numbers:

1800 945204

1800 362695

1300 960922

I have spoken to consultants in the Philippines, the USA and 1 other call centre (India, I think) , yet no one can connect me to an Australia call centre.

The long and short is that I have been advised that there is no longer a call centre or Holiday planners based in Australia (Sydney).

Has anyone tried to contact the Sydney office recently? If so, I would love to have a direct phone number.

Cheers,

Johhno

On 7/28/2019 at 6:56 PM, Kaylacool said:

Can you please clarify for me as I'm in Australia.   Can you use get the obc for owning 100 shares of carnival for sailing on P&O cruises within Australia or is it only carnival and princess?

thanks

Kayla

 

Hi Kayla, yes if your a CCL shareholder you can get OBC for your P&O Cruises.

In saying this Im trying to get my OBC currently for our cruise on the Aria in Sept. Talk about put me through the hoops,never had any dramas with getting OBC with Princess before but this is a whole new ball game.

Cheers

Johhno

Hi David,

Could you please add the following.

27 Sept 2019 … Johhno -, Pacific Aria – PNG

Cheers,

Johhno.

Cheers thanks Mic.

For all you past 35 nt Hawaii Princess cruisers was there any advantage to a Port side or Starboard side Balcony.

Looking at considering this cruise in 2021.

Any advice appreciated.

Cheers Johhno. 

Hi David ,thanks for the photos.

Akaroa was an interesting sailin as we arrived in heavy fog.

Even when tendering in the tenders were using their fog horns as we couldn’t even see 10 mtrs in front of us.cleared up to be a perfect day.

In Wellington today . Using free wifi at Te Papa museum at the moment. Been here before but always great for another look.

Cheers Johhno.

Yes, David currently in the fiords we missed Mildford due to high winds (70 knots) just transit Thompson fiords misty rain and 11 deg. Heading to Dusty sound at present.

Les, AFL was live on MUTS and in staterooms 4.00pm yesterday . NRL at 10.00pm on MUTS as well.

Cheers Johhno.

Firstly, thanks to Cheznandy, we have followed your posts down to Australia, taking lots of notes for our trip to New Zealand. The Majestic Princess is a beautiful new ship and we are enjoying cruising once again.

A few observations we have made so far:

We registered on the first day for the Ultimate Ship Tour $175 aud/pp only to be told that they now use a ballot system and that we are not guaranteed a spot. Not first in, best dressed as in previous cruises.

Laundry for Elites on this cruise is a 2 day turn around.

We have a fantastic cabin steward who has been with the Majestic since day one and is always up for a chat and laugh.

The International cafe is always busy. Seating is limited with everyone overflowing into the Vines wine bar.

There is no designated walking/track like the Royal and Regal. We walk around deck 18, walking through the sports/basket ball court.

Great to see the colour carpets coding for hallways, blue for port (left)side and red for starboard (right) side. Always helpful when leaving the lifts to find your side of the ship!

Whilst loving the Princess luxury beds (very comfortable), the beautiful Piazza and the little things that make Princess our preferred cruising choice, we still prefer the layout of the Diamond and Sapphire Princess ships.

Must away for now AFL about to start on MUTS.

Go EAGLES !!!

Cheers Johhno.