Muffinz

We booked out first cruise in 2018 through a TA and had no issues, so used them again to book our cruise in April 2020... however the cruise was then cancelled and getting the refund back took over 6 months... the TA just lost interest... just told us to wait.... so my wife had to do all the ringing around and e-mailing. Then to top it all off the TA took some money out of our refund for their 'time' pursuing the refund... when in fact they did stuff all! We've booked a cruise for Feb 2023 - direct with the cruise company

We're also doing a cruise from Sydney in Feb 2023... and post #3 sums up the requirements as they stand at the moment... but as others have said that can all change between now and Feb 2023

yes - 6 months is a long time away and the Australian Government have have changed their requirements by then

same as Australia...

So it looks like we still have to test before boarding in Sydney (Australia)?? that could all change before February 2023 though

If anyone is cruising out of Australia and wants to do a RAT test before going to the ship, the Chemist Warehouse are apparently doing covid testing - they have locations all over Australia https://www.chemistwarehouse.com.au/ We are cruising from Sydney in Feb 2023 and as it stands now we will need to have a negative test result in order to board.... however, the cruise is 7 months away and the need for a negative covid test may have changed by then

Thanks for that

Yes I googled Majestic Princess on YouTube and many clips came up.... have watched 1 that was about 9 minutes long and the medallion app one will have to get the wife to watch some with me

After watching that I want to go to the cruise tomorrow... LOL.... shame we have to wait until February 24 next year

thanks for that - I'll watch it later at home

ahh - makes sense now.... thanks for that

sorry to ask a dumb question, but what is the 'blue' or 'green' lane? 🤔

do you put just the birthday / anniversary date in the app? (sorry - totally new to all this) we will be on Majestic in March 2023 and it will be wifes birthday... she would probably be chuffed (and quite surprised) if the staff in the dining room sang happy birthday to her and gave her a cake

thanks - I just meant the Medallion app in general and the medallion you wear on your wrist or on a lanyard / chain... there's info on the Princess cruises site on how they work / operate 🙂

they look very good.... and they ship international, so that's a plus!

We will be getting our medical docs (covid vaccination records) sent to our e-mail as a PDF - I assume we can upload these to the app? or should we bring the hard copies with us when we check in? My wife spoke to someone at Princess the other day (they phoned her) and said if we do all our check in online and have our covid vaccination docs uploaded as don't have to queue / wait in line to check in to board the ship - we can go through some sort if 'express' lane? Looking closer at the Princess health / covid requirements, we will still need to produce a negative covid test. If we did a PCR test via our doctor here in NZ 1-2 days before the cruise and the doctor texts us the result, would that be sufficient? or would it need to be something in writing? The other option is for us to do a RAT test on the morning of the cruise, but I think it needs to be a supervised RAT test? - not sure how we will manage that being in a hotel in Sydney.... I don't fancy queueing in line at the terminal waiting to get a RAT test. but the cruise is still 7 months out, so the covid testing requirements could all change in that time..... my wife said I'm worrying too much about it! LOL

thanks - looks like I'm going to google some more info on this 'medallion' this weekend 😃

thanks for the reply..... we were actually looking at photos from our cruise last night and although we had a balcony, we hardly used it.... we mainly used the stateroom / cabin for sleeping / showering / getting dressed / changed for dinner...etc... when we were on the ship we were always exploring the different parts of the ship or going to another bar for a drink! do princess offer a quick 'ship tour' on embarkation day? we did one on Solstice and that was very beneficial, because up until then I'd only seen the ship on videos uploaded to YouTube.

ok great thanks for that!

oh ok... they post it to you manually? you don't get it given to you at check in?? that would be great if they did that.... when we checked in with Celebrity we had to get our photo taken at check in that that was loaded against our account / see pass card

Food can be subjective.... we did our first (and only) cruise on Celebrity Solstice 2018, and we didn't choose the cruise because of the food.... but it was one of the highlights of the cruise - fantastic in every respect. What made me laugh though was I did a review of the cruise here on CC and mentioned that the food was outstanding..... then I read another review someone did for the exact same cruise and they criticized the food saying (words to the effect of) there wasn't much variety and it was bland / tasteless... blah blah I couldn't have disagreed more! I'm just reading some of the reviews for Majestic Princess and most are positive....

Will the medallion fit / clip onto a standard Lanyard?? I'd rather put it on a Lanyard than try and clip onto my clothes somehow

perhaps people need to learn how to open and close draws quietly? 😉

Great - thanks for sharing that

great - thanks for sharing that photo... looks like there is more than enough hangers for my wifes clothes! are there any draws for your 'smalls' or are they part of the closet next to it?