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I do black my account number out, as I have the software to do it, but I don't think they can do anything much with that number. In the US, they handover that info instead of a statement. The questions aren't dumb. When you know, you know. Till then you can just wing it or ask away.

Season 1 is also available via streaming on Foxtel.

We used to have one of them here for much of the winter, and the ship also gave us Pacific Circle or Indian Circle cruises. I am on a short winter cruise on Splendor in a couple of weeks time to celebrate Barb's birthday, but it is 2nd prize. Our apparent full-time Princess ship will be Iceland at the time, so Splendor it is. Yes, it is brash and busy but we can handle it for short cruises. We also prefer Princess food to Carnival, but we don't mind the idea of 2 meals per day on Carnival - brunch & dinner, with an occasional lunch time snack. If we had a Princess winter option, it would be Carnival who? Fiji is noice at this time of year.

From the landing page after logging-in, on the top menu I click on Account, then select "Statements" from the dropdown. This opens to a page that says "Trading account statement". Beside that, you will see three other tabs - click on "Portfolio Report" You will see your current shareholdings, as well as the pdf and download button near the RH edge. There are a couple of other page options, but this has worked for me, both by email and now with stockperks. I hope that helps a bit more.

Next week - P&O Bedbugs doco.

Printing it out still makes it blurry, and they prefer electronic documents. On your smartphone, logon to your CMC account and navigate to the portfolio report screen. On the right side you will see "PDF" and a download button beside it. Click that and it downloads a pdf file to your phone. Alternatively you can download to your computer, but will need to email that file to your phone for it to be used in the app. Upload the pdf file to stockperks

The 200K isn't a deterrent. You have been paying it for years. That is a $46 per passenger tax that is built into the port fees and charges part of your fare. It was already $30pp (130K) in 2015. They could venture south for a few cruises out of Sydney too, but with more competition from Carnival. If they market it right and add even add Lelepa to itineraries, they can woo many of QLD's disaffected P&O cruisers away from Carnival.

https://www.princess.com/en-au/cruise-deals-promotions/double-the-love Unless they are adding another tier down the track, it means nought. We usually do a Princess cruise in October/November. Not this year, and we are not about to jump in to book one.

2 x 🥚 points = 🥚 points 🤣

The timing is right for Brisbane to hold onto Voyager (or surrogate) year round from 2026. With no more P&O in Brisbane, it should be a cakewalk. Royal is a more respected brand in QLD than Carnival.

Sort of a yeah nah. Yeah, they are killing-off P&O as a restructure to save on costs. We don't have a choice. Nah, they don't want their existing passengers to spill away from their brands. In Sydney it is very mixed, but not so in Brisbane. Going forward, Brisbane will have two Carnival ships, a summer of Royal Caribbean and a short Princess season. For Brisbane P&O cruisers, Royal Caribbean is already preferred ahead of Carnival. The board and management of Carnival care deeply enough to have us thinking we are on a winner, so that Bradbury of the Seas doesn't become Brisbane's year round ship. Over time, I think Carnival will adjust their brands to match our market - more Princess, less Carnival. If Princes offered winter cruises out of Sydney or Brisbane, I would have no reason to cruise on Carnival at all.

That would be a win for us, and something that will keep us doing occasional short cruises with them, as we did with P&O. Our hit & miss P&O history added to our short Carnival cruises would give us platinum VIFP. Not a big deal in the scheme of things, with some priority & token extras, but there is still a feeling of getting something for loyalty. But, this would be a sticking point. If you had to lose your P&O status towards Princess Captain Circle in order to get them credited for Carnival VIFP, there would be a riot. A definite carrot for you, I and others that would keep our elite status regardless, but what of those who have 15 P&O + 3 Princess cruises? One thing is almost 100% sure. Carnival operated "P&Oish" cruises from next April will no longer count towards Princess. Their PR soapbox was big on highlighting VIFP coming to the P&O ships, but they are not about to tell you it is replacing Captains Circle in the same sentence. Maybe they will let you choose how you apply your past P&O loyalty, but that all sounds a bit complicated.

At least the entitlements are less confusing on the app.

Uncertainty either way. Short term, I figure the cruise lines have a verbal assurance, but they need to sort out their 12 year old legislation for the speculation to go away. It would be nice if they let all the cruisers in on the secret a bit earlier than December.

You get more cherries 🍒 at Good Spirits, but I guess it is twice as good as Cherry Jubilee.

Crepes were nice enough, so I guess Suzette isn't exactly to my taste.

Piece of cake only needing to send evidence once oer year. Once accepted, you just need to select each cruise and request your OBC.

Current version for Android

I had the cherries on QM2 some years back. I had Crepes Suzette for the first time on Princess 18 months or so back. After all those years waiting, I was rather disappointed at how boring the crepes were.

You don't need to give them a US broker name. How old is your version of the app?

A marketing company suggesting they should spend more on advertising - ingenious! 🤣 They do need a hook though. For mine, they need to find a way of turning P&O passenger goodwill into a tangible benefit on Carnival, or risk losing them to other brands. I reckon it would be cheaper to woo existing P&O cruisers than to advertise for new cruisers to replace them. Either way, I think there is some interesting news for Carnival to drip feed us with.

Not so sure about it being hidden. Prior to covid, for most policies, international travel was international travel regardless of by land, air or sea. Post covid, some policies have cruise as an add-on, some don't. Just looking at one of my pre-covid policy PDS, the only distinction given to cruising was that a domestic cruise required international insurance. With that same company now, cruising is an add-on which has specific cover around covid isolation, missed ports --- and insurance for your tux. I wish it was simple again. I don't need to insure my tux or most of the long list of items and can readily suffer the disappointment of a missed port in one of the bars on the ship.

I have enjoyed watching this clip this morning. A bit nostalgic, but also funny to imagine being applied to today's cruising.

I have just noticed the Joel Katz story with 9 news yesterday referencing the Coastal shipping act. CLIA will be waiting a while for 2025 to be rubber stamped, and while there is no real evolution of discussions about how the act will be implemented, it will indeed be a rubber stamp. The exemption for 2024 wasn't made official until 13th December 2023, and with these underlying comments from Catherine King: “COVID-19 really affected tourism and the cruise industry, so the Australian Government is continuing to support cruise tourism by guaranteeing another year of the exemption. [the government is supportive of cruise tourism] “The exemption reduces red tape and costs while supporting THRIVE 2030, our national strategy for the long-term sustainable growth of the visitor economy.” [the reference is about red tape and costs, not about preventing foreign flagged vessels from domestic cruising] “The one-year exemption will also provide additional time to consult on a range of potential amendments to the Coastal Trading Act to aid in the revitalisation of the Australian maritime industry.” [Changes need to be made, as there are unintended consequences. AFAIK, not much is progressing here, and CLIA should already be aware of that]. I get that all the cruise lines want certainty instead of an annual extension, and they really don't need yet another layer of charges and taxes. However, our wonderful people in Canberra collect GST off each domestic cruise fare, and it would be lame brained for them to put that at risk.

That is somewhat how it currently works with Tangalooma. It would be nice to book a tandem parasail while we are anchored there in a couple of weeks, but I believe that is restricted to resort guests.