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Coral Princess departing New York, USA - 17th Aug 2023:

6 hours ago, Moriac Mick said:

I'm interested in any first hand experience that people have had with the onboard WIFI on Princess Cruises.

We are booked on a South Pacific cruise (Noumea, Mystery Island, Suva)

My understanding from friends is that the quality can be very poor but the Princess website seems to suggest it has improved a lot of late.

Welcome to the group Moriac Mick! 🙂

We did a relocation cruise from LA to Auckland on the Majestic Princess in October 2022, it was alright for the first few days of the cruise, and then it went to crap.

We got another Princess Cruise book for Christmas so I will be interested to see if its any better or still not very good.

4 hours ago, Twonomads said:

Does anyone have a clue if Australia will  change their covid protocol for unvaccinated cruisers by November 1st 2023?  

I cannot see anything changing till next year (2024), but the last I read / head they where not going to review the covid protocols till December 2023.

You can come to New Zealand and cruise from Auckland unvaccinated.

Coral Princess spending her 2nd day in New York, USA today:

If you want to watch the Coral Princess leave New York, USA

Here are two good webcams:

https://www.portnywebcam.com/

https://www.nyharborwebcam.com/

Coral Princess docked in New York, USA today:

After leaving Halifax, Canada on Monday the Coral Princess had a day at sea before arriving in to New York, USA this morning:

Coral Princess is spending overnight in New York, and leaving on Thursday (17/08/2023) afternoon (17:00).

This is also the end of another leg of the World Cruise and when they leave on Thursday, its there turn to start heading for home.... 😞

Here is the Coral Princess arriving in to New York in the early hours of this morning: (US time).

Sorry in the delay in posting today update, I was out for the most of today:
 

Coral Princess docked in Halifax, Canada today:

8 minutes ago, Tranquility Base said:

Where’s Stu to lead us off….?

I have been out today 🙂 .

Coral Princess docked in Sydney, NS (Cape Breton Island), Canada today:

Coral Princess docked in Ville Saguenay (Quebec), Canada today:

Coral Princess arriving in to Ville Saguenay (Quebec), Canada today:

Lahania is a lovey place and I am sad to see that is has burnt to the ground 😞

We have been to Lahaina twice once in 2013 and once in 2015 and loved it there!

A better webcam capture of the Coral Princess in Quebec, Canada today:
 

After a day at sea from Corner Brook (Newfoundland), Canada Coral Princess has now arrived in Quebec, Canada today:

Found this great drone video of the Coral Princess in Greenock, Scotland - 22nd July 2023:
 

The internet must have improved a little bit or they must have found internet ashore as Gaznjo / Packetau (Joanne), has been catching up on her blog:

https://gaznjoworld2023.blogspot.com/

As of this post 09/08/2023) she is currently up to Barcelona.

After two days at sea from Qaqortoq, Greenland Coral Princess has now arrived in Corner Brook (Newfoundland), Canada today:

Coral Princess is on the right hand side of this webcam capture:
 

After leaving Greenland the Coral Princess is now on her way to Corner Brook (Newfoundland), Canada.

Data according to itinerary:
 

8 hours ago, arxcards said:

I can't see them tinkering with priority boarding in their loyalty program, but they have already staged it via boarding calls, depending on numbers. A similar response would likely see elites & suites as 1st call, followed by platinum & premier as 2nd call.

When we cruise on the Majestic Princess from LA to NZ in October 2022, there was no priority boarding.
 

There was only 3 lanes, Blue, Green and something else.

14 hours ago, arxcards said:

Now that anyone with premier will have priority boarding along with suites, elites & platinums, it will be interesting to see how it all works without boarding slots. If it reverts, those with priority will be able to arrive a bit earlier for check-in than the other half of the passengers.

I will be interested to see if elites & platinum will still get priority boarding!

Coral Princess anchored off Qaqortoq, Greenland today:

Coral Princess has been joined by Zaandam.

I was just checking Coral Princess AIS before I go to bed (Its 2:00am UK time).

Its look like Coral Princess might have all ready have arrived in Qaqortoq, Greenland:

Will post another update with her webcam capture, latter tonight OZ time).

Good Night!

12 hours ago, Tranquility Base said:

The weather was suitable, so the Captain gave us the scenic cruising route through Prince Christian Sound on the way to Nanortalik.

Very interesting, a few nice glaciers and quite narrow in places, surrounded by steep cliffs with waterfalls.

A chilly but good day.

I was reading about that on Facebook.

How lucky where you guys 🙂