Kiwi_Cruisers

On our recent QE Xmas cruise from Melbourne we saw jeans worn in the Britannia Restaurant more than once and with crocs.

Oceania Regatta for 10 nights on the 27th March replacing cancelled 2020 cruise.

We booked yesterday the Melbourne to Auckland cruise which included Fiordland scenic cruising and no word about change of schedule from Cunard.

Our cruise is end of March so we booked a hotel that has just opened opposite the ferry/cruise terminal.

- Boutique Hotel Kon Tiki Tahiti 

We booked for the night before the cruise as our flight arrives 12:30am and booked a few nights at the end of our cruise including the night before as we wanted to walk from the ship to the hotel and checkin at once.

Would be great for us Mariners in AU and NZ to take advantage of this great offer, sadly no email received.   
Very envious of those who have booked this great offer.

Also very disappointed as we were booked on the April 4th cruise, maybe related to their recent announcement of their first case of coronovirus in French Polynesia.

Hi Guys

We subscribed to your You tube channel recently and enjoyed your video posts, as we have an upcoming Regatta cruise from Bali to Sydney at Xmas and an Easter cruise round the Tahitian Islands.

Cheers

Joel

Although P & O Australia is more of  a budget line we found people do make an effort in the evening. We have cruised more than 18 times with Celebrity and the evening dress standard in the last few years has been much lower including dress-up nights.

Hi Tom & Judy

We will be on the following cruise the 30th October and 11th November with the cruise ending in Abu Dhabi.

cheers

Joel

We will be boarding the Constellation next month in Civitavecchia for a B2B cruise and decided to purchase a Tim for Visitors sim card available at the Roma Termini. Valid for 30 days from activation and costs €30 including the sim card, includes 18Gb of data (6 GB throughout EU).

- includes 200 minutes local and international on the 4G network.

This will be the best option for us as we will use wifi on the ship and is good to have data offshore available for hotspotting Ipad etc.

I always drink 'long black's in NZ and find the Americano has too much hot water so ask for a double espresso, ask for a small jug of water if it is too strong. I find it is best not to confuse the waiters so stick with what is on the menu or you will find what turns up is never consistant.

We did this cruise as part of a B2B cruise in October/November last year. We docked at Okidate Pier, photo below of the Millennium is taken near the Nebuta Festival Museum nearby which is a must see.

We did this trip about 4 years ago and during the land portion of the trip we stayed at some very upmarket hotels so you may want pack something suitable for these hotels -

https://www.lhw.com/hotel/Country-Club-Lima-Hotel-Lima-Peru

https://www.belmond.com/hotels/south-america/peru/cusco/belmond-hotel-monasterio/

hi there, we always use this email and it has worked! RE ShareholderBenefit <shareholderbenefit@carnivalaustralia.com>

good luck!

Hi Kiwiboys

That email address has been used by our travel agent in the past successfully but now they no longer reply. I believe OBC requests are now processed in Manilla.

Background

When we purchased our CC shares some time ago we were initially unsuccessful in receiving a reply from Carnival Australia confirming we had shareholder OBC using the fax number supplied. We asked our travel agent to assist and she forwarded our details and we always received an email confirmation before the cruise. This arrangement worked for us until now as Carnival has instructed our travel agent to fax or mail our details, we applied weeks ago.

Problem

Our travel agent and I have tried faxing the numbers – 61284249161 and 61283264819 and the fax does not go through (Busy).

Would any cruisers based in AU or NZ who have been successful in receiving a reply please advise what type of method you used.

Our cruise departs on the 23 Feb 2018 so we are now doubtful of claiming our credit.

Thank you for your reply.