SunnyinDubai

Thanks - the person who gets seasickness is not doing the Port Douglas excursion...I just did not want them to not be able to enjoy the Airlie Beach excursion which is a scenic flight....

I wish I had done the same....:-(

Crown Princess

The problem is that I did not realise that Princess does not give you a list of excursion and what it costs at the time you book it…all I got was an email confirmation for the payment…and silly me did not check…I have now cancelled some excursions but am now trying to work out the refunds as they are being refunded per passenger and not per excursion so I am trying to work out what I paid for each passenger and whether the amount refunded is correct…it would have been so much easier if Princess emailed a breakdown of what was booked and the associated costs so I could track it better…

Thanks...I am thinking it might be a good idea to move the excursion to the later one for Airlie beach as it means we are less stressed about "making it to the shore on time" and if we do get there earlier, I am sure we can find something to do... We have booked the cruise line excursion for GBR as they had an offer recently but was also looking at other options...but the only one I found for Port Douglas was more expensive (if we wanted to get back to the Port earlier than the 4.30pm time)...

Hi All, Posted this question on the Australia Ports of Call section and got no responses - so am posting here given there is more traffic in this section - We have a cruise booked in Nov which stops at Airlie Beach and I believe its a tender port so I have a couple of questions - 1. Does anyone know how choppy the waters are? One of us is prone to sea sickness and so I am wondering if he will find it a bit too much? 2. The ship docks at 7am and we have book a tour where we need to meet at 10.20am - do you think that it is too risky? I am wondering if we should move to the next time available which is probably 12ish? Also, does anyone have any recommendations for GBR tours operating out of Port Douglas which work with cruise timings? I looked into one provider but they only get back to Port Douglas at 4.30pm which is cutting it too fine for us as the ship leaves at 5pm....they did offer a return helicopter option...which of course ain't cheap 🙂 Thanks.

Not sure if anyone can help, will call Princess...but there was a recent Princess Excursion sale - I feel it was buy one get 50% off the next person but could be wrong...does anyone recall what it might be pls? Thanks.

Hi All, We have a cruise booked in Nov which stops at Airlie Beach and I believe its a tender port so I have a couple of questions - 1. Does anyone know how choppy the waters are? One of us is prone to sea sickness and so I am wondering if he will find it a bit too much? 2. The ship docks at 7am and we have book a tour where we need to meet at 10.20am - do you think that it is too risky? I am wondering if we should move to the next time available which is probably 12ish? Also, does anyone have any recommendations for GBR tours operating out of Port Douglas which work with cruise timings? I looked into one provider but they only get back to Port Douglas at 4.30pm which is cutting it too fine for us as the ship leaves at 5pm....they did offer a return helicopter option...which of course ain't cheap 🙂 Thanks.

If I recall correctly, I think there was a higher risk if you had diabetes and got COVID so I believe it has been taken off most if not all PEC lists for TI. There are a number of TI which cover PEC - so I am suprised to read that only Covermore covers PEC. I have purchased SCTI and Allianz with PEC post covid. Allianz was great when I caught COVID overseas and even asked me why I did not submit any bills relating to accomodation for the extended stay (was staying with family so did not stay at a hotel) and they paid the eye watering cost of my return fare which I was pleased with as I was worried they would not pay it given how expensive it was...but that was the only fare available for me to get back to Aus post quarantine.

I used Stockperks for an upcoming cruise and was pretty impressed with how quickly things got processed...itook 3 days from uploading share statement to redeeming OBC. I was amazed 🙂

Thanks everyone. I think that we may purchase the wifi package for the one device as we don't see the value in the plus package as presumably both of us will need to purchase it?

Hi All, we are looking at booking a cruise on Princess which goes along the Queensland coast and we are wondering whether our phones (and internet) will work on the ship or if we need to get the wifi on the ship. Has anyone had any experiences they can share? It will probably help us work out if we need to consider purchasing the Princess Plus package or if we can stick with an offer from a TA which does not have the Plus package. We only need internet for one device really. Thanks in advance.