RosieCanberra

Sounds good, thank you.

If I cancelled shore excursions today, when can I expect to see the refund on my credit card? This is my first Azamara cruise. 

Cheers

Rosie 

2 hours ago, NSWP said:

Hardly achievable.   At this rate WA will be closed for another couple of years.

I'm worried about this. We have a Kimberley and NT trip booked for June. We have already cancelled three WA trips the past two years. Also booked out of Fremantle March 2023 on Coral Princess. Crikey!

We are heavily booked for travel over the next two years, both in Oz and overseas. About 9 coach/driving tours and 12 cruises. The cruises range from a 4 night Murray River cruise to 20 days on Azamara in Western Africa. 

I have no idea how many will go ahead though. 

Our first overseas trip is to Japan in October for a Celebrity Solstice cruise, fingers crossed they let us in. 

Wow! It looks fabulous. Good on Royal, I think this will sell out. I haven't been on a world cruise but I know plenty who sail on Princess world cruises and the demand is so great they sell out years in advance. 

Luke has done some more media recently on the resumption of cruising. I think the new NSW Premier will be open to getting the ships back. He has brought forward the easing of other restrictions already. 

We have three booked, but for later in 2022. Celebrity Japan October 2022, NCL Mediterranean November 2022, Azamara Europe/Africa late November 2022.

Fingers crossed we can go. 

8 minutes ago, Ondine said:

I see that Royal Princess left Seattle 2 days ago and is bound for Singapore - ETA 30th September.  That would give her approximately 12 weeks to 17th December.

 

Does this bode well for Sydney cruises or are they clutching at straws??  Interesting.

Oh I hope she does sail down to us! But I wouldn't bet on it.

1 hour ago, MMDown Under said:

The PM no longer appears on the national

broadcaster!

I understand the PM will be on Insiders tomorrow morning.

Weird that Celebrity Edge has now disappeared from the list. I guess we will see a lot of changes before 2023. 

@onlyslightlymad

I agree, a great analogy. 

@Justprettynpink

Thank you so much for all the posts, photos, information. Just wonderful.

19 hours ago, Chiliburn said:

The last of my parents just died and they used to live in Port Douglas.

They moved back to Sydney and regretted it. 
They said a few times they wanted to go back but where just to old to move again.

 

So I should have about $1600 in FCC with Royal and I’m going to book some grand suites on radiance.

We are going to take them back to Port Douglas 

Condolences to you, and how nice of you to do that. 

21 hours ago, mr walker said:

Just received notice from Celebrity that Celebrity Eclipse Aus/NZ cruises are cancelled thru 17-April '22. So that just confirms for us for our QLD coastal cruise Mar 26 is gone!

 

We had only paid deposit, transferred from Solstice 4-Apr '21 so we will take the refund offered. They are offering 125% FCC good thru 31-Dec 22 or a move to same cruise in '23 (or within 4 weeks of the original date in '22), but I think it is time to reset on cruising until some normality returns.

We are taking a refund as well, already have Celebrity FCCs. The 125% is tempting, but the ships arrive late October so there is only an 8 week window to cruise. If the FCC covered the season (to April 2023) we would have taken it. 

Celebrity need to extend the sail by date for Australians. We have a closed border, probably mid next year it may open. But the ships don't arrive for the season until late October (Celebrity usually sail October to April).

No cruises to book. We also sail from foreign ports but who knows when our border will open?

21 hours ago, ProgRockCruiser said:

By releasing at least some of the sailings through Apr 2024 a bit early, they can gauge interest (and collect deposits) for what post-COVID business might look like.

I think it's a wonderful idea. I have two Caribbean cruises booked with Celebrity for October/November this year which I won't be able to get to (Australia has a closed border, so I can't leave). Because Carnival has released their Caribbean itineraries I will book at least one cruise with them. 

4 hours ago, sailingships said:

You made me look real fast. The itinerates for Western Caribbean have been up for a few weeks but not the Eastern which is what I am waiting for and got excited about until I saw there had been nothing added as yet. 

Carnival Celebration has both Eastern and Western. I am looking at doing a B2B.

I note Carnival have released 2024 Caribbean itineraries which is fabulous. Does anyone know when were they released and is this normal practice to release so far in advance or is it a covid thing?

2 hours ago, tony s said:

It happened to us,take the cab!

It happened to a friend of ours from the UK as well, she lost her passport, cash, credit cards, everything. A big hassle for her right before a European trip. 

I really don't understand why they can't sell both Pepsi and Coke products. Not just NCL, all cruise lines.

Take a taxi. Having your bag stolen on the metro is a strong possibility. 

On 5/28/2021 at 9:46 PM, frantic36 said:

And so more vaccinated international travellers by the end of the year are posting stories about visiting other countries that FOMO might kick in for Australians who like to travel. If so this might increase vaccine uptake here. Any thoughts?

 

I agree with you, I think vaccine acceptance will increase as time goes by. I wouldn't be surprised if certain states closed their borders only to the unvaccinated should an outbreak occur. 

3 hours ago, NSWP said:

Thanks Rosie, so I presume then Norweigan Spirit will not be here at all for the cruise season Dec 2021 to April 2022?  Many if not all cruiselines will be the same, 'no appearance your worship.'

Yes, I imagine so Uncle Les. I can't see any large ships here while our international border is closed. 

NCL have announced a range of further cancellations, including Norwegian Spirit cruises up to 28 January 2022. Spirit was meant to be in OZ/NZ from December 2021 to April 2022. 

8 hours ago, NumnuT_OZ said:

 

Has anyone used FCC as a deposit?

 

Yes we have, with Princess though. Used a TA who did everything.