phoenixx

21 hours ago, MargoK said:

 

John, I suggest a large ship such as the Majestic which has the most amazing stabilizing system.   We had some heavy seas on one point across the Tasman and seriously it was impressive how the ship managed to alleviate the swells.    We watched from Crooners one evening at the water sloshing over the windows and could only feel the slightest of movement.  It was hard to reconcile the feeling with the vision!

MargoK, I had the same experience on Majestic in March crossing the Tasman. Really weird disconnect between what I was seeing thru the balcony doors and what I felt, I was glad of it though!

Please add 12th September 2020 Whittier to Vancouver 7 nights

8 hours ago, lissie said:

Changeable and take 10degrees off - it very, very rarely gets to 30C anywhere in NZ - and never gets to 30C anywhere near the coast.  

That's not true at all, it regularly gets to 28-30 in NZ Summer and definitely so at the coast, sometimes it's even above 30!😁

7 hours ago, irishred said:

We are booked on a NZ/Australia cruise next month. Since we booked last April, our plans of when and how we can meet up with our friends during this trip have changed, and it would be better for us to cancel the cruise but still keep our flights and visit as a land trip. 

 

I made the initial deposit and bought our airline tickets in April, then purchased our travel insurance with the 75% CFAR option the day I made the final cruise payment in August. 

 

We are booked on NCL with their 'Free at Sea' offer, so I paid $500-ish in "free at sea" gratuities and $500-ish in port charges, which I assume will be refunded direct from NCL, correct? That leaves around $2000 for the actual cruise fare, if I cancel in the next few days I would get 25% back per NCL cancellation policy, so I presume the insurance would cover 75% of the remaining $1500?

 

Since we are still taking the flights and will be making it a land trip, would the insurance still cover the rest of the trip? I did pay $600 for it as a comprehensive plan covering $6500 total trip cost, and am only claiming for around $1500, and don't want to have to buy another plan to cover our medical, etc. 

 

I'll be calling them tomorrow to try and figure it out, but out of dozens of travel policies purchased, this is the first time I have needed to consider a claim, so I'm just trying to get an idea of what I am looking at by canceling only a portion of the trip. 

Read the cancellation conditions in your travel insurance, most policies don't cover you for change of mind.

Please add for me:

17 April 2021, Sydney to Honolulu 19 nights Transpacific on Seranade of the Seas

Thank you

On 1/23/2019 at 12:15 PM, trbarton said:

If your willing to be upgraded only to the next category like from Balcony to Mini Suite, have your booking marked “Mita Upgrade” which means you’re only interested in the next higher category. I do this every time I make a booking. I do this every time I make a booking. 

 

Tom😀

Can you explain the point of this please?

Try Sea Bands

I would think it unlikely IF you knew this was a possibility when you took out the insurance. Have you read the PDS?

5 hours ago, phoenixx said:

Ooh I got all excited reading this as I'm on Alaska cruise in 2020, so called Princess and mine had gone down.....drumroll.... a grand total of NZ$40 each 😁

Oh well every little helps!

To much excitement too quickly. So I got my new booking confirmation but the price was the same, not $40 less pp. Back to Princess I go, took me speaking to 3 different people to then discover that the first person had made a mistake, apparently because we have upgraded one of our day tours (and paying the full price for it) we don't qualify for this price drop. I asked her to explain the rationale but she couldn't! So basically if we had not upgraded one tiny element of our cruisetour we would get the price drop. This doesn't make sense to me, has anyone come across this before? 

Ooh I got all excited reading this as I'm on Alaska cruise in 2020, so called Princess and mine had gone down.....drumroll.... a grand total of NZ$40 each 😁

Oh well every little helps!

Oops thought my previous post had not registered so I posted it again, only to find my first post, so I've deleted 😁

On 5/23/2019 at 6:21 PM, BEFdoc said:

Checking Trip Advisor (sister company of CC) there might be a problem with scheduled stops in Cartegena.

Do you have a link to this discussion please?

Any updates on this please?

Could you please put me down for Vision of the Seas Miami to Los Angeles via the Panama canal, 14.10.19 and Coral Princess 26.8.20 Vancouver to Whittier, thank you

On 1/15/2015 at 7:50 AM, VibeGuy said:

For sheer beauty, Northbound is the way to go: every day gets more spectacular.

 

For logistics with a land tour, I can't weigh in.

 

If you have the time to spare, consider sailing both directions and sandwiching your land time in the middle. That's truly the best of both worlds and isn't hideously more expensive if you are booking with some flexibility.

Surely you'd be paying for 2 separate cruises, so double the cost? Or am I missing something (quite likely) please advise?

On 5/12/2019 at 8:38 AM, Heidi13 said:

 

 

If round trip Vancouver, you will transit the Inside Passage mostly in daylight until almost Campbell River.

Hi,

I'm planning a cruise from Vancouver to Whittier, mid August 2020, departs Vancouver 4.30pm, will we transit the Inside Passage overnight or the next day (sea day) please?

On 5/5/2019 at 9:35 PM, MMDown Under said:

In my experience, if you are willing to book late, reduced prices are often offered November/early Dec and February.  

 

In addition, booking relatively late, I pick up cruises, on small ships, with no single supplement.  

Is that for cruises in those months?

Please add for me, Vision of the Seas 16 night Panama canal Cruise Miami to Los Angeles, 14th October 2019, thanks 😁

8 minutes ago, Tranquility Base said:

Thanks for that info. 

Did you hear of any significant delays during this process for passengers doing independant tours ?

Sorry can't help with that.

Coming from NZ we had to do immigration at Hobart on my recent Cruise on Majestic Princess.

On 3/7/2019 at 10:30 AM, DrOfBytes said:

We're on board the Majestic Princess.  We were prevented from docking in Port Chalmers (Dunedin) today due to thick fog.  I wonder how often that happens?  The captain said we only had a small window to pull in to port since it has to coincide with the tides and we missed our window.  Of course, there are a lot of disappointed passengers (and crew!).  We had booked the Taieri Gorge train trip.  I guess we'll have to plan another trip to New Zealand some day!  Weather looks decent for the Fiordland National Part tomorrow at least.  Really looking forward to that.

 

We're just sitting outside of port now going no where.  The crew had to scramble to come up with activities to do today on board the ship.  An unplanned sea day!  We'll make the most of it.

I was on the Majestic Princess beginning of March, we too missed Dunedin due to fog closing the port. It cleared very quickly but apparently we still couldn't go in due to missing our tidal window. Very annoying. Princess had already shortened the arrival and departure times of 2 or 3 of the ports (Dunedin was one of them) some weeks before departure which I didn't understand as they would have known the tide times well in advance!

Oops I've just realised the op was talking about the same cruise. 

2 hours ago, CheriKM said:

Our primary reason to travel all this way is to see New Zealand.  We are very port focused.  We are worried that on Celebrity (which has always been our favorite), we will only spend four days on the island.  Will we really get to see enough?  

No you won't see enough in 4 days. Go for the one with the most port stops.

I think it might have been discontinued.

I live in NZ and I'm doing the Majestic Princess around NZ leaving Auckland 2nd March. I wouldn't do this Cruise any later in the season. Our Summer has been very late this year and it's only the last couple of weeks that we've been getting the really hot weather so fingers crossed for good March weather. The last few years our Summer has been arriving later and later.

On 2/5/2019 at 8:43 PM, soak01 said:

Can someone recently on a RCI cruise booked from Australia please confirm.

 

The RCI website says that a daily onboard gratuity charge of $14.50USD per person per day will be charged to each guests Sea Pass account on a daily basis.  However, I have read in the Australian booking conditions that the fare is inclusive of onboard service charges for stateroom and dining room staff.

 

We always give our stateroom and dining attendants something extra at the end of each cruise anyway, but just wanted to check if the daily charge as per website is still being applied to Sea Pass accounts.  Last year we did the Radiance trans-pacific and they started applying the daily charge to our Sea Pass accounts.  When I queried it at guest services, they only took it off after I pointed out that the cruise had been booked on the Australian website.

 

I have a couple more RCI cruises coming up so don't want to be stung.

I was on the same Cruise last year, Radiance Trans Pacific, booked in Oz and not charged the daily gratuity.