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Geoff when would we know what rcl ships will be here. Also do you know if rcl fcd are worth it?

Is it still $15 corkage do you know? I will be going back to taking wine onboard as I'm not willing to pay the new price.

Great attitude. Good luck, enjoy your cruise wherever you go.

We are supposed to enter Bay of Islands at the end of March on Quantum it will be interesting to see if we make it🤞 I bought a ship tour basically to get us of the ship in a timely manner, at least it will be refunded if we don't make it.

They've had plenty of time to get the hull cleaned before the cruise, it's not like they didn't know the itinerary. So if they don't go to the sounds is it OK to drag their dirty butt around New Zealand?

Could someone explain if the wellness check is something that's booked separately to your check in time please. We have an 11.30 check in time. We sail on Quantum to NZ next week.

I wonder how heavily it will be policed, we cruise next week & haven't received any information regarding this.

Or it's a really long cruise😁

This looks terrible, could it be water damaged? Not that that's an excuse. On our Encounter cruise we found our cabin very clean & was done twice a day.

Great news for Napier. Hopefully cruise ship passengers spend up big in Napier, we plan to on the 20th.

I wonder how many would buy them if they don't have the package 🤔

Oops double post

Out of our next 4 booked cruises only one is with Princess & that isn't until next January. We paid $30 for our plus fare on Princess for next year. I pity the poor staff having such a long time to have to put up with the price differences on the new & old packages. In future I won't bother with the package. On my biggest day I've only managed 2 wines & 2 cocktails & I was merry ( lightweight I know😁) don't drink juice, can't & don't want to eat their stupid icecream offerings & get plenty of exercise taking the stairs & doing laps on deck. I'll be happy to pay corkage on future cruises.

We always take on the Moccona cappuccino satchels as the coffee out of the machines is horrible, plenty of hot water to be had. There is iced water & glasses at every bar to help yourself. You are allowed to take on cans of soft drink or non alcohol beer. I take on a Brita water bottle to fill in my cabin, the water is drinkable I just don't like to. If you like chips, nuts or lollies take them with you as why pay ship prices for them unless you have to.

Crazy pricing on the wines 🍷 Does anyone know if the $15 corkage has gone up please.

Looks good. I'm hoping they have improved the air-conditioning, it was just about non existent on our October cruise.

Enjoy your cruise Geoff. Could you put up some of the new drinks menus please?

I saw this price yesterday, obviously they can’t fill the ship in Adelaide.

We cruised Pacific Encounter in October, we had no trouble getting a table for 2 at any meal time in the mdr but in saying that you are pretty close to others around you. Had the same experience on Princess.

Yes I realise that now. It's why my next post refers to us doing a magical mystery tour.

Yes we could both be on another magical mystery tour. 4 of our 6 ports are all on the east coast of the north island.

We are there on Quantum on the 20th of March. I can't see why they wouldn't go there still as I don't think the waterfront was destroyed. Now if you have a tour booked that could be a problem.

We are about to do our 3rd cruise out of the new Port in Brisbane, haven't noticed the smell on embarkation maybe to excited but have crossing the car park on return. Yes Rcl are having trouble filling the ship but there are 3 other ships all doing similar itinerarys to compete with, And a lot of people just aren't willing to cruise yet because of covid fears. Princess in Melbourne has had trouble filling their ship, their cruises have been a bargain over summer so doubt they could fill Quantum. What they should do is multi port embarkation especially for southern itinerarys.

Hello, I have booked my time dining on RC for the NZ cruise , I don't remember being given a choice of dining room & can't see that I have to be at one or the other.

About what time frame out do they offer the bid to upgrade? Do you need to sign up to get upgrade offers? We have a virtual balcony on Quantum for March so any help with this would be appreciated.