Cruise Junky

Announcement on Monday

We booked the free MR cruise and now received the Caribbean one this morning. Free cruises raining from the sky.

Insides and bottom two categories of balconies are wait listed.

We’re up in Turtle Bay now for September. Love it up here. There’s the resort but there’s also a ton of condos on the golf course that will be a lot cheaper.

Looking at the website it doesn’t appear they’ve learnt anything about the size of the Royal class balconies. Ship looks great but we’re not interested in a shoebox for a deck.

Typo perhaps…there’s a booking on the Fremantle port schedule for Pacific Princess in 2025 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Thanks for the wonderful review. We’re doing a land trip in April starting with a week in Hawaii. One night at the Hilton Tahiti and six at the Hilton Moorea. Can’t wait.

It’s tied to your passport - they know.

So sorry. Going through this with my mom. It’s so difficult. Best wishes for the future.

Thanks Jan. I was able to download it to iBooks as a PDF so I’m good. Question for you though…do the segments of grand voyages go on sale at the same time as the whole voyage or do they come out later like the world cruise? Thanks.

Never mind. I found the brochures online.

I’m registered for the event tomorrow. Do any of the GV do AU and NZ for any length of time. I think I read that one does a three week version thanks.

Yes, I realize I could phone. I just wondered why all the agencies that were selling the segments have pulled them all.

I just read the fine print at the online agency. It appears to have been pulled until they get a revised itinerary Please Note: In light of recent events, Xxxxxxxxx expects this itinerary to be modified to exclude Ukraine. Xxxxxxxxx will update the itinerary as soon as the revised itinerary is announced and we are not taking new bookings for the itinerary as currently shown.

Thanks for looking. They’re also gone from a couple of big online places. Interesting. Again, thanks for looking.

Hi, curious. They’re no longer on Royal’s site and gone from some online agencies but not all. Is this because of all the expected port changes because of Russia? Any insight? thanks.

The itinerary is on a couple of online sites.

I’m not sure you would eventually pay more. In Canada servers are paid the same minimum wage as other people, or very slightly less. Around $14-$15. Our restaurant prices aren’t out of line with yours.

Yes, I realize that, I remember them doing it as most people were removing the tips. I was however referring to Australia by land trip, not cruising.

Luckily we have a guy we’ve rented from for over 10 years but I hear you. Prices are nuts. By the time I get back it might not have been cheaper than a 1A 😂

I didn’t say it was the end of the world. I said it was a tick in the land trip column.

Lol…nice one! We actually cancelled a celebrity 18 day cruise to do this instead. The month in Hawaii was cheaper than a 1A balcony 🤷🏻‍♀️

Depends where you go. We’ve done australia three times and tipping is not much. We’re currently looking at an extended NZ and AU trip. Tipping is not prevalent in either country. We leave next week for a month in Hawaii. We have a condo so will only be tipping if we go out at night. I understand specialty restaurants at Celebrity also now add in 18%? Not everywhere in the world has the US tipping culture.

$41.49 a day Canadian sure adds up. They deserve it but it’s always factored into land trip cruise calculations for us. Check mark in the land trip column for this one.