Onboard grand Princess 21st of December till 22nd of January

[yes!yes!yes!]

Solo guitarist in the explorers is excellent. 

First time e I have ever heard I love the night-life done country. It was good

[sewgood]

Enjoying looking at the food photos.

But it does make me want to be back on a ship. 😪

The food looks much better than at my place.

[RobinBancs]

Love it.  Thank you for sharing!  This is going to help us in the count down to joining on the 5th of January!  we're very keen to know which nights are formal as I expect that it will be same/same for ours.

[yes!yes!yes!]

33 minutes ago, RobinBancs said:

Love it.  Thank you for sharing!  This is going to help us in the count down to joining on the 5th of January!  we're very keen to know which nights are formal as I expect that it will be same/same for ours.

I think tomorrow night is formal night. Yes it is

[yes!yes!yes!]

Just back in the room. Tomorrow's compass

[yes!yes!yes!]

Won the trivia 100

[yes!yes!yes!]

Did well on the music trivia.

Off to bed now.

 

[arxcards]

17 minutes ago, yes!yes!yes! said:

Won the trivia 100

Congrats on your bottle of Duc. Looks like it is the fleet wide choice of ship champagne.

[yes!yes!yes!]

5 hours ago, arxcards said:

Congrats on your bottle of Duc. Looks like it is the fleet wide choice of ship champagne.

Thank you.

Tried to give it away. No takers

[yes!yes!yes!]

Breakfast in the dining room was good. Ship is very quiet

[yes!yes!yes!]

There was a one hour time change last night. Clocks forward

[spersephone]

I have always wondered how people book back to back cruises. How do you manage to keep the same room?
EDIT: reread your posts and see you’ll be shifting during the cruises. That must be annoying! 
 

Do you book it all yourself online or through a travel agent? Do you get any kind of discount for doing it that way? How far in advance do you do it to ensure it’s seamless?

Edited December 21, 2022 by spersephone

[spersephone]

We’ll be joining you in Melbourne. Have you done the progressive trivia? What does progressive mean? I’m thinking of changing my dinner booking so I can go. 

[By The Bay]

On 12/21/2022 at 6:30 AM, yes!yes!yes! said:

Well. Not quite on board yet. Later this morning.

Flew in from Perth to Melbourne  yesterday and stayed last night at the sofitel on Collins. Lovely  hotel with great views.

I'm cruising with my mum for the first two cruises and solo for the last one.

Join in this thread  anyone else on board.

Will attach my first glimpse of the ship from my hotel room earlier this morning 

[OzKiwiJJ]

18 hours ago, yes!yes!yes! said:

She can find the smoking areas no problem. 

It's more me getting lost.

I keep  thinking it's coral. Don't like where the international Cafe is. Prefer it next to explorers.

 

Meanwhile lots of people on Coral complain because the International Cafe isn't on deck 5 in the Atrium. 🤣🤣🤣

 

I thought the Coral location was good but it should have a wall between it and the Casino to cut down the noise.

[Aus Traveller]

40 minutes ago, spersephone said:

We’ll be joining you in Melbourne. Have you done the progressive trivia? What does progressive mean? I’m thinking of changing my dinner booking so I can go. 

With progressive trivia there is a 'prize' every day, and a prize for the total score at the end of the cruise. We have only had progressive trivia in a long cruise.

[yes!yes!yes!]

1 hour ago, spersephone said:

I have always wondered how people book back to back cruises. How do you manage to keep the same room?
EDIT: reread your posts and see you’ll be shifting during the cruises. That must be annoying! 
 

Do you book it all yourself online or through a travel agent? Do you get any kind of discount for doing it that way? How far in advance do you do it to ensure it’s seamless?

I used the Princess agent that we used last cruise. I booked these cruises last minute. The last one I booked  about 6 weeks ago. But the other 2 were only confirmed  about a week  before. If you book ahead you can get the same room for all the cruises. Changing rooms is better than no cruise.

[yes!yes!yes!]

1 hour ago, spersephone said:

We’ll be joining you in Melbourne. Have you done the progressive trivia? What does progressive mean? I’m thinking of changing my dinner booking so I can go. 

I usually do progressive trivia. It's usually on longer cruises where there are lots of sea days. We didn't  bother with this cruise tho as it was  not well timed against other stuff we want to do on board. Luckily  Princess do a lot of trivial. With the more fun ones usually in the evening between other entertainment. 

[yes!yes!yes!]

Tried the buffet at lunch. The chicken korma and the ribs were nice.

The dining room had one of the boring menus for lunch today. 

[yes!yes!yes!]

[yes!yes!yes!]

This on the bed this evening.

I don't mind at all. But they never even asked when we were boarding 

[yes!yes!yes!]

Tomorrow's events 

[NSWP]

Thanks for posting the food pics, lubbly jubbly, inspires me to cook.

[MMDown Under]

17 minutes ago, NSWP said:

Thanks for posting the food pics, lubbly jubbly, inspires me to cook.

What are you going to cook?

[NSWP]

3 minutes ago, MMDown Under said:

What are you going to cook?

Just had it, chicken 🍛 curry and rice, cool down here, 14C, curry weather.

Edited December 22, 2022 by NSWP