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  1. That has generally been our experience too. It wasn't apparent to us on Majestic, but we didn't drink any water in the buffet.
  2. They must be good! I couldn't get antivirals - under 70, with a partial risk factor, but I needed two valid ones to get them. I had all of those symptoms, but on top of each other. Add to that, for two days all of my teeth + jaw were aching, and throw in some fever and lingering sinus pain. All passed now, and I am getting a bit more energy back each day.
  3. It looks like a beacon, and I think we would have noticed one if there were any on Majestic. I can't be sure though, as we didn't spend much time in the buffet. It looks like rather impressive water, but we mostly drank bottled water from part of the plus package. Also, the ship water in the dining rooms & specialty restaurants tasted really good.
  4. No, I told Barb to take more care next time. Seeing it there, I was thinking surely someone else has bumped it, but only through carelessness. When I recall how many people fall down atrium stairs and how many slip on wet open decks, these ships need to be treated with respect. The bench seats are common in many of the dining areas, and are fixed to the walls.
  5. Cool. I will keep an eye out on movements. I had mentioned early-on that I was only keen to track the big ones, but she is a ship I would love to be on one day.
  6. Go for it. Just make sure you can get reasonable airfares to go with it.
  7. Carnival Splendor ✔️ Majestic Princess ✔️ Celebrity Eclipse ✔️ Ovation of the Seas ✔️ Carnival Luminosa ✔️ Quantum of the Seas ✔️ Grand Princess ✔️ Queen Elizabeth ✔️ Westerdam ✔️ Noordam ✔️ arrived in Brisbane today, a day earlier than originally scheduled. Now a slow cruise down to Sydney for 12th November. Norwegian Spirit is still some time away, currently having a fun time cruising around Tahiti. Arrives in Sydney on 21st December. With a further six weeks till Spirit's arrival, it is fair to say our summer season is pretty much in full swing - my last update.
  8. Welcome back!! Coral returned to Sydney as Tier 1, which is a considerable turnaround from a couple of weeks ago. When done correctly, it proves the protocols do work.
  9. Correct, for now. They have said they were going to integrate the two sites, but it hasn't happened yet.
  10. Our choice when in Burnie. They even had some on the upper shelves of Majestic Princess.
  11. Fixed dining is indeed easier for a ship to organise than anytime, but sometimes your table companions just aren't your kind of people, or choose to dine in the buffet and leave empty seats at your table on most nights. We have been mostly lucky. Sun Princess was setup for fixed dining for Australia, whereas the overseas Princess ships had one fixed restaurant and anytime in the others. The app alert is a nice improvement for Carnival, although not much different to being given a buzzer as we have had with them and P&O in the past. The experience all depends on whether you only have to wait 10 minutes or 1/2 hour for the alert that a table is ready. We reserved our table/time for each night in Concerto or specialty restaurants, and on each occasion we were seated in less than 5 minutes from arriving outside the venue. I would consider it much more relaxing than arriving with 500 others awaiting the doors to open for fixed dining or open seating. Service at Wake View was ordinary, especially from the waiters, who seemed to be pre-occupied on keeping an all day table of smokers happy on deck 17. Other bars were much better on how they used their POS. The better bars did not use the "passive screen" when it was busy. Instead of having many faces to scroll, they only had to punch in your cabin number to bring up the faces for that cabin, then assign a drink to each for the package. When ordering your first drink, most bar staff/waiters asked for your cabin number - no real difference to when they used to write down your folio number to do the same. I haven't heard they are trying to improve the system itself, only the passenger app interface. The last change was mostly cosmetic. It works for us, and we will get to see how Carnival compares next year.
  12. We have just finished packing in plenty of time for a train to Sydney tomorrow. We will spend a night at the Marriot, and board on Thursday. I am hoping to catch some movements of Pacific Adventure, Pacific Explorer and Carnival Splendor during our time in Sydney. We have 11 nights this time, our first real holiday in a while. Number one priority is to chill, relax and enjoy our trip, but will have much more time to get around the ship and get plenty of photos. Also looking forward to our day in Port Douglas. With cruising shut down in 2020, we were going to take our Hawaiian cruise refund up there for a holiday, until Annastasia locked us out on short notice. We booked this cruise in a roundabout way, late in 2020, for October 2021 on Royal Princess. We thought that would be a low risk cruise for when everything restarted. No such luck, so it became Royal Princess in November 2022, until Princess changed their mind. So here it is, and we scored an extra night for nothing, although our mini was slightly downgraded to a lower location. If boarding is half as good as our recent Coral cruise, we will be ecstatic - in medallion we trust. 😁 Coral has been so easy to settle in to on two short cruises, so I am curious to how different a Royal class will feel. So far, every Princess ship we have boarded has felt familiar is a short time. Bring it on!!
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