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we did the opposite on Celebrity - went to the show at 7pm then dinner at 8:30pm but I think we'll do the opposite on Princess - dinner first then see the show

Thanks for the replies I know on Celebrity Solstice the show times were 7pm and 9pm in 2018 but we'll try to book for 7pm or something so we have plenty of time to make the 9:30pm show

thanks - I don't think we can book / reserve anything until we've made final payment? - I think I read something on here a month or so ago

is this the same ship wide? we are on Crown Princess in December and would also like to make dinner reservations based on the show times

I asked this question on the Princess forum a while back and got mixed answers that were more confusing than helpful, but does anyone know what time the shows will be on in the theatre on Crown Princess in December? I believe they do 2 shows a night, but are they 7pm - 9pm or 7:30pm - 9:30pm or other times? Reason for asking is we want to book dining times and need to know the show times in order to book the appropriate dining time thanks in advance

thanks - good to know the Ptrincess ships have retractable clothes lines just a question - do they allow you to dry your clothes outside on the balcony? e.g. if you hand wash your socks / underpants can you use pegs / clips to hang them from the balcolny chairs? We did this on Celebrity Solstice and it worked well, but do Princess frown upon things like this?

thanks for the replies - we'll play it by ear on the day and see how it all goes

Can you get priority boarding or be moved to the front of the boarding queue if you have knee / mobility issues? and do you need to inform Princess before you get to the cruise terminal? My wife might be having a knee operation in September (yet to be confirmed) and although we don't cruise until 14 December she may have problems standing for long periods at a time. if this is the case could we ask someone at the cruise terminal (Sydney Australia) if we can go to the front of the queue? She may be fine by December, but I just thought I'd ask

thanks for the replies We'll be staying in a hotel in Sydney and will no doubt have to check out at 10am, so I said to wife we might as well get a taxi down to the cruise terminal and just wait if the weather is fine outside, we can enjoy the sunshine 😀

oh we'll have passports with us, but our immigration in Australia will take place when we land at Sydney Airport and go through customs / immigration... if they want to see the passports at the cruise port then we will get them out, but I don't see why they would

even if we are just travelling domestically within Australia?

thanks - the cruise is going from Sydney back to Sydney, so no immigration will be needed as there are no overseas ports. We will still take our passports to the cruise terminal 'just in case' they want to see them, but I have scanned them into the app already

thanks for that - I'll look on that part of the forum 🙂

thanks for the info - we are boarding Crown Princess in December at Sydney OPT we're having a discussion about when best to embark.... I want to get to the OPT about 10:30-11am and get on the ship as soon as possible before the crowds, but wife said there'd be huge queues then and it's best to get there about 1pm once the queues have 'died down' - but I'd like to be on the ship by then having something to eat / drink....

ok thanks for that - I thought if we completed all our paperwork on the app, we'd be good to go and just have to pick up our medallion at the port? I remember for our first cruise (on Solstice) we had to provide credit cards and get our photo taken at the cruise port terminal, but we can do this all on the app and I've done most of it already I don't know what time embarkation starts as the cruise is still 9 months away.... but Princess will probably send out the embarkation info well before the cruise sail date this is our first ever Princess cruise - so no loyalty perks or anything unfortunately

We are on Crown Princess from Sydney (Australia) in December and we are in the process of finalising flights / hotel pre cruise - we're getting very excited! Last night we were talking about embarkation day and wife said she doesn't want to queue for an hour (give or take) waiting to board the ship and she wants to get to the Cruise terminal in Sydney about 1pm to 'avoid' the queues.... I said that by 1pm I intend to be on the ship having something to eat / drink and relaxing... and I suggested getting to the cruise terminal about 11am-11:30am, but she is dead against this and said in the morning there will be big queues with everyone trying to get on the ship at the same time and she thinks that by about 1pm the queues would have 'died down' I said that if we have all our details correct we should be in the 'green line' and boarding should be easier than it was in 2018 when we boarded Celebrity Solstice in Sydney (that took about 60 minutes). Wife doesn't like standing for long periods of time as she has a dodgy knee, but I said it doesn't matter what time we get to the cruise terminal there will be queues, as Crown Princess holds over 3000 passengers. I'd just prefer to board early so we can relax, unpack our luggage and spend the afternoon exploring the ship. what are other peoples thoughts on an early or later embarkation?

We did this when we booked our cruise for Dec 2024 - just incase they give us a stateroom in a noisy location or something

Yes - I had a look at EZ air and they bought up the same flights we've already looked at, and they were more expensive than booking direct with the airlines

thanks for that - it's good to know but I think for this time we will opt for a later flight in the afternoon

thanks - I don't know anything about EZ air.... I assume they are flights organised by Princess on the regular carriers that fly between Sydney and Auckland? is that $29 per person or couple because if it is per couple than that would work out cheaper than the train

Unfortunately We've only been able to get a certain amount of time off work and we're both going back to work on 27 December..... anyway if we did stay overnight in Sydney we'd have to fork out about $400-$500 AUD for a nights accommodation... We're already staying in Sydney 2 nights before the cruise (hotel yet to be decided) I think we're probably going to get the 1:45pm flight back to Auckland just to be safe

thanks - the cruise is Sydney to Sydney (around South Australia) so customs won't be an issue But yes.... being delayed could cause a problem I'd prefer a later flight myself, but they are on the smaller A321 planes, and last time we flew international on one of those planes it rattled like buggery for most of the flight.... and really put us off... but we might just have to suck it up

We're on a Princess cruise that docks / disembarks in Sydney on 26 December 2024 at 0630 We've managed to get a really good airfare going to Sydney from Auckland 2 days before the cruise starts and we are now debating which return flight to get. The flights at the best times (later in the day) are on the smaller A321NEO planes (both Air NZ & Qantas), and we'd prefer to fly on a larger 777 or similar There is an Air NZ flight that leaves Sydney at 11:45am on a 777-300ER, but would this flight be too risky to make? Passengers can apparently 'self disembark' the cruise ship with their own luggage at 0630, so if we did this and got to the Circular Quay Train station at say 7am, then we'd probably be at the Airport by around 8am and have plenty of time to make that flight. The only problem could be if there are any issues with the ship docking or if it arrives late into Sydney..... We're in 2 minds about this - part of me wants to book the earlier flight, so we can get back to Auckland earlier.... but part of me doesn't want to risk it

thanks for posting this - we have the plus package on our cruise in December so we can go to Salty Dog Gastropub and get 1 of those small plates each and that will count as 1 casual meal each?

a Lanyard will work fine for us... no need to splurge for medallion accessories on our only cruise to date (celebrity) we had a lanyard with our card on it and we just hung it up on a metal hook in our stateroom and every time we left the room we took it with us.... but it's good to know you can use the app on board without needing wifi