Sea Princess .. World Cruise 2015

Seward Alaska is first US call for that cruise, and according the the schedule..

 

Ships in Seward (AK)/USA on 29/07/2016

Celebrity Millennium 1,940

Sun Princess 1,950

2 Ships 3,890

damn!

Seward Alaska is first US call for that cruise, and according the the schedule..

 

Ships in Seward (AK)/USA on 29/07/2016

Celebrity Millennium 1,940

Sun Princess 1,950

2 Ships 3,890

Thanks, David. Whilst there will be about 4,000 in port, the passengers on Celebrity Millennium wouldn't be arriving at Seward, as a first port of call.

Anchorage is our first port of call.....

 

we will be visiting Canada after that which is why I am assuming that we will need to do the immigration thing again is SFO.... when we did the Fort Lauderdale - colon 2000 - Panama - Los Angeles on the world cruise 2011 we had to do immigration again...

I did wonder if Canada would muddy the waters. There are a number of ships which do that route from Asia, via Alaska and Canada, to US ports, so someone will know.

Just thought I would check Rays blog from when he did the pacific Circle in 2012

Arrival in Anchorage

It was misty, cool, and bleak, but charming too. We were booked into the immigration interview for 9:20am and on our tour at 10:20am. There was plenty of time for breakfast and for us, the immigration interview was no problem. Although it didn’t say so on our paperwork, we did need our passports and we also needed photo ID if going ashore. For those not on organised tours, I gather there were complaints about the process being a bit of a shambles, with long waits in the theatre, then the last in being led out first.

Arrival in San Francisco

now they disembarked here ... but I am sure everyone would have done immigration... now to remember if there were any other blogs

An early breakfast was essential as the 8.00am appointment (not 8:20am) with US immigration was set in concrete. However, seated in the theatre, awaiting the call for the interview, meant a 45 minute wait and waste of time - and the natives were definitely getting restless. If NZ can put a couple of people on board to do all the processing on sea days, then I see no reason why the US can’t.

We were eventually sent down to the opposite end of the ship to the vista lounge for the face to face. No fingerprints, no eye scans, just a face to face with a pleasant official who stamps the passport and clips the departure card to it.

Excellent blog by Andy re arrival and photos into NY. And finally, his porridge was HOT !!

http://andyandjudi.com/2015/07/27/day-64-arrival-new-york-july-24th-2015/#more-3692

I agree. Great photos and description on the long slow cruise into Manhattan.

Just thought I would check Rays blog from when he did the pacific Circle in 2012

 

An early breakfast was essential as the 8.00am appointment (not 8:20am) with US immigration was set in concrete. However, seated in the theatre, awaiting the call for the interview, meant a 45 minute wait and waste of time - and the natives were definitely getting restless. If NZ can put a couple of people on board to do all the processing on sea days, then I see no reason why the US can’t.

 

We were eventually sent down to the opposite end of the ship to the vista lounge for the face to face. No fingerprints, no eye scans, just a face to face with a pleasant official who stamps the passport and clips the departure card to it.

That makes sense.

OMG look what I found.....

I thought I would find the pacific circle blog that the boyz did in 2010 ( they are the ones that got caught up the mountain when the weather turned bad. )

after finding it I found that they had started another blog site... so I visited it .... and guess what ... they got on in Southampton and are on the sea princess... another blog to follow LOL.....

http://www.theboyzblogs.blogspot.com.au/

btw... they did do 2 immigrations LOL...

OMG look what I found.....

 

I thought I would find the pacific circle blog that the boyz did in 2010 ( they are the ones that got caught up the mountain when the weather turned bad. )

 

after finding it I found that they had started another blog site... so I visited it .... and guess what ... they got on in Southampton and are on the sea princess... another blog to follow LOL.....

 

http://www.theboyzblogs.blogspot.com.au/

 

 

btw... they did do 2 immigrations LOL...

It is funny, as David said, how one thing leads to another. Fun way to cruise home after an enjoyable time in London. It is a small world!

Welcome to the US!

Yes, when ships visit smaller ports first it can also lead to delays. When the Solstice visited Hilo, it took about 4 hours for people to get through Immigration.

We then went direct to HNL, and had a 2 hour queue for them to check onboard.

Good to see they're making good use of our US$14 fee to improve tourist services.

They are in Charleston (SC), USA today:

SEA PRINCESS at ShipWatcher

Need to get out my map to see exactly where Charlestown is

Sun 26/07/15 New York (NY) / USA 17:00

Mon 27/07/15 At Sea

Tue 28/07/15 Charleston (SC) / USA 07:00 17:00

Wed 29/07/15 At Sea

Thu 30/07/15 At Sea

Fri 31/07/15 At Sea

Sat 01/08/15 Willemstad (Curaçao) / Netherlands Antilles 08:00 22:00

Sun 02/08/15 At Sea

Mon 03/08/15 Cartagena de Indias / Colombia 07:00 14:00

Tue 04/08/15 Panama Canal (Passage/Cruise) / Panama 05:00 16:30

Wed 05/08/15 At Sea

Thu 06/08/15 Manta / Ecuador 06:00 19:00

Fri 07/08/15 At Sea

Sat 08/08/15 At Sea

Sun 09/08/15 Callao (Lima) / Peru 07:00

Mon 10/08/15 Callao (Lima) / Peru 16:00

Tue 11/08/15 Pisco / Peru 07:00 17:00

Wed 12/08/15 At Sea

Thu 13/08/15 At Sea

Fri 14/08/15 At Sea

Sat 15/08/15 At Sea

Sun 16/08/15 Hangaroa / Easter Island 07:00 19:00

Mon 17/08/15 At Sea

Tue 18/08/15 At Sea

Wed 19/08/15 Pitcairn (Passage) / South Seas 10:00 14:00

Thu 20/08/15 At Sea

Fri 21/08/15 At Sea

Sat 22/08/15 Papeete (Tahiti) / French Polynesia 07:00 18:00

Sun 23/08/15 Bora Bora / French Polynesia 08:00 17:00

Mon 24/08/15 At Sea

Tue 25/08/15 At Sea

Wed 26/08/15 Pago Pago / South Seas 08:00 17:00

Thu 27/08/15 At Sea

Fri 28/08/15 Date Line 12:00 13:00

Sat 29/08/15 At Sea

Sun 30/08/15 At Sea

Mon 31/08/15 Auckland / New Zealand 07:00 22:00

Tue 01/09/15 At Sea

Wed 02/09/15 At Sea

Thu 03/09/15 At Sea

Fri 04/09/15 Sydney / Australia 07:00 16:00

Sat 05/09/15 At Sea

Sun 06/09/15 Brisbane / Australia 08:00

They arrive here late tonight , our time..

Sat 01/08/15 Willemstad (Curaçao) / Netherlands Antilles 08:00

22:00

From the bridge cam it appears they have had calm seas and great weather through the Caribbean

The web cam is delayed as it still shows them coming into port. But they are well and truly docked and disembarking. Parents off to some batcave...hope they don't have hendra virus there:eek:

The only port cam I could find from Curacao. I dont think its live. Looks a very pretty place.

I found one that shows it, but I'm not sure how to post the screen shot here.

http://http://www.***********/cruise-port-tracker/caribbean/willemstad-curacao.php

have seen some lovely photo's from friends on facebook Curacao looks like a lovely place to visit

so they are in Cartagena today ... we missed this port in 2011 thanks to a hurricane ... hopefully we will visit there on our south America cruise...

I should set an alarm for later today but they will be entering the panama Canal..

here is a link to the first set of locks.... Gatun.... if you are awake for the Miraflores they have a great webcam for that one too.

http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html

so they are in Cartagena today ... we missed this port in 2011 thanks to a hurricane ... hopefully we will visit there on our south America cruise...

Make sure you get to the Fort there. Fantastic.

As post I , 3.30 pm NZ time , the scanner site states...

Arrival will be in 6 hrs 31 min. (at 05:00 h local time)

so that should be 10pm NZ and 8 pm Sydney time.

The transit takes all day (most of the day )so they should be in the Miraflores Locks..(Pacific side) early morning NZ time.

You can follow the transit on Marine Traffic and also track them here..

http://seacruisechat.com/

in the Gatun Lock and about to enter Lake at end of this first series of locks.

(hope attachments works, Im not sure how to make them bigger :rolleyes:)

They have now made the transit and are in the Pedro Miguel locks. You can see some of the canal expansion work on the right. From here they will head a short distance to the Miraflores locks where the cam should give us a close up.

good morning all... are they through miraflores yet.. there is a tanker in there now.. is that them in the distance...

good morning all... are they through miraflores yet.. there is a tanker in there now.. is that them in the distance...

Yes thats them in the distance.