Ship Drongo

There is a website out there for a modest fee with tens of thousands of passengers photos of ship cabins. it is www.cruisedeckplans.com. They will pay you for your pictures, and you can soon make up the cost of membership. EM

Thanks, I am registered on this site. There are not photos of our class of cabin, hence my suggestion for more members to take photos of their cabin on each cruise they undertake

Ship Golden Princess

Class Grand

Deck Baja deck 11

Stateroom #B214

Category BE

Port/Starboard/Bow/Stern Port

Connects With Cabin # N/A

Accessible Not wheelchair accessible

Quiet Very quiet

Balcony Size 214 sq. ft. (inc.46 sq,ft. balcony)

View 4th cabin from stern - excellent view

Privacy Issues none

Wind none

Soot none

Problems none

Comments

We were pleasantly surprised at the much larger hanging space for clothes and the apparent king-size bed. It's great being close to a back public balcony. There is nothing like lying on a deck chair, gazing at the ship's wake in the ocean and watching the horizon cascade up and down with the movement of the ship.

I sailed as a child with my Father to and from Australia to U.K. on P & O's Himalaya in 1955/56. As a result I have several menus, children's party programs and various competition programs.

I have collected various items of P & O collectibles, including a silver spoon and brass bell off the Himalaya and a bottle opener from the Oronsay:)

Going on Sun Princess in December, does anyone know the current drinks prices please?

This is our 4th Princess cruise. I can't quote drink prices but there is no question that purchasing one of the drink/beverage/coffee packages is the way to go. You can do this on-board or before on your cruise personaliser. We don't drink alcohol so we purchase 1 unlimited soda package which provides soft drink, mocktails, fruit juices and hot chocolates. Also, if you a couple, just purchase 1 package; most service staff will turn a blind eye and allow you to purchase drinks for both of you...if you order separately and not at the same time.:)

I'm wondering what experience some folks have had with Guarantee Bookings. If I book a Guarantee, and wait for the cruise line selection process, if I do not like the cabin am I able to then select another cabin at whatever the going rate is for a selected cabin? I'm wondering how many people do this with the hope that the Guarantee Cabin will be acceptable? I guess you risk being stuck with the Guarantee if there are no other acceptable cabins still available at the time the cruise line assigns you a cabin. :confused:

I have been told that booking a guaranteed cabin gives you a better chance of scoring an up-grade. :cool:

We are regular Princess cruisers from Melbourne Australia. What I find frustrating is the lack of actual photos and accurate descriptions of Princess staterooms. Most photos and descriptions on-line are generic and don't reflect reality. Is this the same for other cruise line ships?

As an example, on Sun Princess the O5 category premium ocean-view cabin does not have a 'picture window', but a 'large window' which is close to a ceiling to floor window. All ocean-view descriptions provided by Princess are generic and the same. There are a myriad of cruise web-sites with photos but many are the generic photos provided by Princess.

This also applies to the size of staterooms. The size of a particular stateroom varies between different websites. In this modern digital world,surely the cruise companies could provide up-to-date and accurate information on staterooms.

I would encourage cruisers to up-load photos, particularly of staterooms, to Cruise Critic as I think this is the best web-site for up-to-date information for fanatical cruisers like us.

Golden Princess to Debut in Melbourne as Princess Cruises

Expands to Five Ships in Australia

Golden Princess would be making her maiden visit to Australia when she arrived in Sydney in October 2015 before moving to Melbourne to become the biggest cruise ship ever to be based outside Sydney.

Well done Princess. Melbourne has at last been acknowledged as an important cruise market. Earlier this year, I embarked on a campaign to convince cruise companies to give Melbourne extra ships. I'm sure I wasn't the only one to do so.:)

Do you think people would want 3 sea days each way going to the South Pacific from Melbourne?

Melbourne is very handy for New Zealand but in Oz want to cruise to the warmer areas and come home with some duty free.

In answer to your question. I along with many others love sea days

I was merely reporting what the cabin steward said. The current Adonis is being retired and the steward pointed me in the direction of cabins on another deck in which the carpet had been changed in anticipation of the change. Also, there are no Princess ships calling Perth home:D

I was advised by our cabin steward that the Sea Princess will revert to P & 0 in 2016 as the Adonis. It is likely to be replaced by the Star Princess. We will be sad to bid farewell to Sea Princess as we like the mid size ships. We do look forwrad to newer ships in Australia.

I also believe there will be a Princess ship out of Perth next year.

:)

How do you sign off on a post with a logo showing previous cruises?:)

Does anyone know the bed configuration for a quad balcony stateroom A732 on Aloha deck. We will be 3 in the stateroom

Come on Carnival! How about making ship starved Melbourne, (pop. 4 million), home for one of your great cruisers:rolleyes:

Come on Holland America. How about using ship starved Melbourne with a pop. of 4 million as a home. :)

Come on P & O Australia. How about a ship to call Melbourne home. Having Pacific Pearl for a few months is not enough for a city of 4 million. We are starved of cruise ships with only Dawn Princess form November to April. :)

Come on Royal Caribbean! How about making Melbourne home to one of your magnificent cruise ships. It's the second biggest city in Australia with 4 million people and as of 2014 only 2 ships call it home. All Melbourne cruises are quickly booked out.;)