librarylady19 Posted April 6 #126 Share Posted April 6 9 minutes ago, little britain said: I had better not tell DH!! Can confirm. They actually advertise this in the daily newsletter. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom39 Posted April 7 #127 Share Posted April 7 17 hours ago, little britain said: @Mom39 please can you share who you booked tea / kimono 👘 with as the ones I’ve seen are $100pp. Thanks I have never heard of drinks in casino 🎰 being free but I haven’t been on X for a few years! @Northern Aurora perfect 👌 thanks 🙏 Here is a link to kimono/tea ceremony. Perhaps the ones you saw included transportation or a Geisha? Hope this helps. The Trip Advisor reviews are excellent. I'm getting so excited about Kyoto 🙂 https://mai-ko.com/tour/kimono-tea-ceremony-gion-kiyomizu-at-the-registered-cultural-property/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare little britain Posted April 7 #128 Share Posted April 7 7 hours ago, Mom39 said: Here is a link to kimono/tea ceremony. Perhaps the ones you saw included transportation or a Geisha? Hope this helps. The Trip Advisor reviews are excellent. I'm getting so excited about Kyoto 🙂 https://mai-ko.com/tour/kimono-tea-ceremony-gion-kiyomizu-at-the-registered-cultural-property/ Ah yes same one but we have geisha and kimono 👘 wearing! Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom39 Posted April 7 #129 Share Posted April 7 9 hours ago, little britain said: Ah yes same one but we have geisha and kimono 👘 wearing! Thanks Also, if you are doing Kyoto on your own... there are plenty of wonderful restaurants near the train station (I hear/read), but I am very excited about the one that our concierge recommended: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g298564-d3779815-Reviews-Kura_Kura-Kyoto_Kyoto_Prefecture_Kinki.html Also, I booked my hotel above Kyoto Station for only $120/night and I'm looking forward to that as well: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g298564-d1071189-Reviews-Hotel_Granvia_Kyoto-Kyoto_Kyoto_Prefecture_Kinki.html And, I'm booking the English-speaking rickshaw guide ahead of time and only doing 30 minutes: https://ebisuya.com/en/book/ I think these places are priced nicely. Unfortunately, my tour guide/driver are expensive but hopefully we will find two people to go with us and split the cost. In my experience, when you want to see a lot, the private tour is the way to go. But, if you share the cost it is not expensive. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare little britain Posted April 7 #130 Share Posted April 7 (edited) @Mom39 thanks for the tips! we are going back to Kyoto for 3n after the cruise ends so we can experience it fully. And hopefully at leisure! I have already booked the funky BNA museum hotel. On our Osaka overnight we are doing deer 🦌 and maid cafes and street food 🍲 !!! Edited April 7 by little britain 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom39 Posted April 7 #131 Share Posted April 7 1 minute ago, little britain said: @Mom39 we are going back to Kyoto for 3n after the cruise ends so we can experience it fully. And hopefully at leisure! I have already booked the funky BNA museum hotel. On our Osaka overnight we are doing deer 🦌 and maid cafes and street food 🍲 !!! 2 minutes ago, little britain said: @Mom39 we are going back to Kyoto for 3n after the cruise ends so we can experience it fully. And hopefully at leisure! I have already booked the funky BNA museum hotel. On our Osaka overnight we are doing deer 🦌 and maid cafes and street food 🍲 !!! Looks like fun! Enjoy! We are doing Tokyo for two nights afterwards in the teen area near Shibuya crossing. Wish we had more time for Kyoto. I think I'm going to love it. Jealous! I think we are fortunate just to be cruising Japan though. 🙂. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare little britain Posted April 7 #132 Share Posted April 7 For future Japan travellers, if you can get English programmes, can I recommend James May (Amazon) , Joanna Lumley (BBC) and Sue Perkins (BBC) programmes which all present a unique slant. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veinless Posted April 21 #133 Share Posted April 21 We’ve booked the Millennium for March 2026 and see a number of excursions in Nagasaki for the Jeju Island stop. How does that work? That’s a long tender… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nennbee Posted April 21 #134 Share Posted April 21 I’m booked on Millenium for a Japan cruise in March 2025. There is a plethora of choice of excursions. Any must do/ see recommendations would be appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tscoffey Posted April 21 #135 Share Posted April 21 3 hours ago, Veinless said: We’ve booked the Millennium for March 2026 and see a number of excursions in Nagasaki for the Jeju Island stop. How does that work? That’s a long tender… Jeju is day 8. Nagasaki is day 9. Must be a mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veinless Posted April 21 #136 Share Posted April 21 48 minutes ago, tscoffey said: Jeju is day 8. Nagasaki is day 9. Must be a mistake. Nagasaki isn’t even on the list of stops on our March 2026 cruise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tscoffey Posted April 21 #137 Share Posted April 21 17 minutes ago, Veinless said: Nagasaki isn’t even on the list of stops on our March 2026 cruise. Ours is March 16, 2026 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veinless Posted April 21 #138 Share Posted April 21 I’m thinking there’s got to be a mistake. Here’s the March 28 excursion choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare hammo Posted April 21 #139 Share Posted April 21 Just some advice please , We are Aussie sailors and given the poor state of our $ and wanting to cruise a Japan itinerary , we will most likely book and inside cabin . The itineraries are heavily port intensive so economics will win out and we will spend more time off ship and up on deck early and late to compenstae . We are looking at the August 18 cruise 2025 following our Thailand , Vietnam cruise in January and see many comments about the August heat - - we travel in Asia and Indonesia often and are used to the humidity and wondering if this will be the same in Japan in August . Also a question re the two itineraries , there is an earlier sail that is slightly different ,sailing further north - any preference from those who have done both ? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abracadebra1 Posted April 22 #140 Share Posted April 22 15 hours ago, Nennbee said: I’m booked on Millenium for a Japan cruise in March 2025. There is a plethora of choice of excursions. Any must do/ see recommendations would be appreciated Hey there, this is a very long thread and there are several suggestions way earlier. We plan on October 2025. Having looked for over a year at this cruise, I joined this conversation way back then. There's a lot of good information and hopefully more to come as experiences are posted! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holidayfun1 Posted April 22 #141 Share Posted April 22 Thanks. I’ll look back through the thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare JJK2008 Posted April 22 #142 Share Posted April 22 12 hours ago, hammo said: Just some advice please , We are Aussie sailors and given the poor state of our $ and wanting to cruise a Japan itinerary , we will most likely book and inside cabin . The itineraries are heavily port intensive so economics will win out and we will spend more time off ship and up on deck early and late to compenstae . We are looking at the August 18 cruise 2025 following our Thailand , Vietnam cruise in January and see many comments about the August heat - - we travel in Asia and Indonesia often and are used to the humidity and wondering if this will be the same in Japan in August . Also a question re the two itineraries , there is an earlier sail that is slightly different ,sailing further north - any preference from those who have done both ? Thanks We recently booked the Millenium cruise for August 18, 2025. I have never been to Japan, but my DW has many years ago. It is a long way off, but we too are starting to plan. I have also started a roll call for that cruise but don't expect much activity yet. There is lots of info out there here on CC as well as other sites to sift through. I've read every post on this thread and have already found a wealth of information. If you have not done so, I'd suggest doing the same, you may get the answers you're looking for. We have many Aussie friends scattered along the east coast. We visited Oz last October and November for 7 weeks. I truly hope we get a chance to visit again. It was a wonderful trip. Hope you decide to book the cruise. Stay Safe & Healthy. Cheers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abracadebra1 Posted April 26 #143 Share Posted April 26 (edited) On 4/22/2024 at 7:26 AM, JJK2008 said: We recently booked the Millenium cruise for August 18, 2025. I have never been to Japan, but my DW has many years ago. It is a long way off, but we too are starting to plan. I have also started a roll call for that cruise but don't expect much activity yet. There is lots of info out there here on CC as well as other sites to sift through. I've read every post on this thread and have already found a wealth of information. If you have not done so, I'd suggest doing the same, you may get the answers you're looking for. We have many Aussie friends scattered along the east coast. We visited Oz last October and November for 7 weeks. I truly hope we get a chance to visit again. It was a wonderful trip. Hope you decide to book the cruise. Stay Safe & Healthy. Cheers. We originally looked at August with no qualms about heat, but our plans changed to October for other reasons. I'm sure Japan can't be any hotter than last year's summer sizzler in Spain with 107F and the year before in Israel's August heatwave. And of course, we live through Texas summers, too! You'll be fine. Edited April 26 by Abracadebra1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zitsky Posted April 26 #144 Share Posted April 26 8 hours ago, Abracadebra1 said: We originally looked at August with no qualms about heat, but our plans changed to October for other reasons. I'm sure Japan can't be any hotter than last year's summer sizzler in Spain with 107F and the year before in Israel's August heatwave. And of course, we live through Texas summers, too! You'll be fine. Everything thing is “bigger” in Texas. Even the weather. Zitsky Raleigh, NC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lyneem Posted May 12 #145 Share Posted May 12 On 3/28/2024 at 12:06 PM, debfed65 said: Thank you Bill for all this information. I do have google translator already on my phone, but I will also download Maps.me as well. Not sure if these work while our phones are on airplane mode 🤷♀️ probably not. Our second cruise ends in Singapore, making ports of call to Kagoshima, Taipei, Hong Kong and Chan May, Vietnam. Thank you again for replying as I'm sure this information will be helpful to others as well! Maps.me will work without a sim card in your phone as it works off GPS, I think once you download google translate on your phone you do not need an internet connection 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbop Posted June 15 #146 Share Posted June 15 On 2/1/2024 at 3:51 AM, Staci0615 said: I will be doing this same cruise in 2025.....please report back 🙂 We are thinking about the August 18,2025 cruise but reading too many negative reviews about the heat. Looks like the itinerary may be in some cooler spots except Kyoto and Tokyo. We live in California and the temps hit 100 but humidity is about 50%. So I'm not sure if the complaints are from heat intolerant people or both. Otherwise the price and ports look amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zitsky Posted June 15 #147 Share Posted June 15 (edited) 4 minutes ago, tbop said: We are thinking about the August 18,2025 cruise but reading too many negative reviews about the heat. Looks like the itinerary may be in some cooler spots except Kyoto and Tokyo. We live in California and the temps hit 100 but humidity is about 50%. So I'm not sure if the complaints are from heat intolerant people or both. Otherwise the price and ports look amazing. My husband has been in Japan in August. He said it was very hot and humid. And we live in North Carolina now. So consider that. We also lived in California and I don’t care what the weather person says. California has no humidity except in the desert. We plan to go in mid May or maybe early June in 2026. Edited June 15 by zitsky 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickeysgal Posted June 16 #148 Share Posted June 16 (edited) 1 hour ago, tbop said: We are thinking about the August 18,2025 cruise but reading too many negative reviews about the heat. Looks like the itinerary may be in some cooler spots except Kyoto and Tokyo. We live in California and the temps hit 100 but humidity is about 50%. So I'm not sure if the complaints are from heat intolerant people or both. Otherwise the price and ports look amazing. Great - that’s the one we booked. It was the only one that worked with our work schedules. Ugh. Edited June 16 by mickeysgal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbop Posted June 16 #149 Share Posted June 16 1 hour ago, mickeysgal said: Great - that’s the one we booked. It was the only one that worked with our work schedules. Ugh. It’s a better time for us too and festivals are that month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare villauk Posted June 16 #150 Share Posted June 16 5 hours ago, tbop said: It’s a better time for us too and festivals are that month. We are the same sailing this year; I was also bound by work schedules. I will report back on how we find it, but do remember we come from the U.K. and anything over 20 degrees C here for more than 3 days is a heatwave 😂. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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