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Yep back and booked a little cruise for about 14 months from now, doctors willing.
No couldn’t be there, (an ex school mate runs Coates and would have loved to catch up with him and his missus) but saw it on TV he was literally just around the corner from my office, well one day the6 might reopen the streets and let us back in.
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Good for you, hope it goes to plan and the back holds out mate.
We were all geared up hoping to do a Princess "Worldie" out of Sydney in 2019 but it turns out it is still on the little old Sea Princess and to add insult to injury they have also swapped from including Italy & the Mediterranean to the Baltics which we have already done twice. :mad: so a double dose of no-thanks!
To drown our sorrows :rolleyes: we have just booked a Suite on the RCI Voyager of the Seas including a 3 day Grandstand ticketed visit to the Singapore Grand Prix in 2018. Then 2 months later a land trip to the Golden Triangle India then over to Dubai to board & pick up a chartered cruise on The Sapphire to sail back to Singapore via Cochin, Colombo Sri Lanka & Kuala Lumpur.
So I guess we will make do and hope for a Worldie that suits in 2020.
My God Life's sure is hard, then you croak... :loudcry:
Cheers r.
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Should buy Mr Cook a ticket for Hawaii perhaps?
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G'day Mic
Lol... a tour of the Sandwich Islands to digest his fate would be acceptable. :evilsmile:
Cheers r.
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Wow never seen a dunny with a view like that.
But what happens if you dock close to a high rise:eek::rolleyes:
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G'day Gut
You're back on board, I thought you must have taken up permanent residency on the Spirit of Tasmania mate. :p
That wasn't you on top of that building in Watt St. waving that Red Bull flag yesterday was it? :D
Cheers r.
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All over at ye olde Gabba, Australia demolished the England team by 10 wickets.:p
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Ex- Capt. Cook all at sea again, quite a few need the application of the "Broad" sword to get to the 'Root" of the problem, methinks.... :o
Cheers r. :cool:
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Sort of Stereo Urinals ? :'):halo:
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Well doesn't that just take the yellow cake.
G'day uncle Les
Another sorry day at the Gabba-ttoir for the barmy army mate!
Cheers r. :cool:
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Where is Gut lately, by the way?
He hasn't sold up and taken residence aboard the Spirit of Tasmania has he??? :hearteyes:
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I would like to try it for while anyway.
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Then sell the polly-ville palace and take up a lifetime pass on the Stockton ferry Mic. ;p
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If her home had been in Sydney, she probably could have bought Crystal Serenity outright. :p
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lol, that cracked me up. :D
Cheers r
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Don't bother with that link in OZ.
The uploader has not made this video available in your country.
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disembarking in Sydney in February .
Want to snorkel GBR. Is it worth taking a flight to Cairns or Townsville for 2 nights straight off ship?
Any hotel suggestions close to docks? Should we book reef tour well ahead?
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If it were me and such a short amount of time or you are here for the once in a lifetime visit I would do it but look to stay overnight out on the reef to cut down the time constraints and maximise your reef viewing experience.
Try something like this...
https://www.cruisewhitsundays.com/great-barrier-reef-experiences/reefsleep/
Cheers r
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I have yet to see a domestic violence case, traffic accident, unplanned teenage pregnancy caused by cigarettes.
Alcohol, should we just ban that?
Each to his/her own and respect for choices.
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Ppffftttt... when has second hand smoke ever been anyone's choice?
At least "most drunks" & teetotalers alike can choose not to step in the evacuated pea, corn and carrot digestion selection.
However I guess walking around inside that cancer fumed blue haze would have your bata scouts skating on said vomitus concoction.
Small price to pay for your drug of choice if you ask me, enjoy! :evilsmile:
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Seems OP should have visited suburban Melbourne for a real eye-full of some roos in their natural state
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victoria amat curam
Dirty shinboners... :o
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Big YES from me, although not for any of the aforementioned reasons.
Absolutely hate the place so give it another overpriced under designed eyesore, a redundant piece of infrastructure to add to the multiplicity of reasons any sane person would not go within bull's roar of the nesting place of my Outlaws! :eek:
Did I say I hate this Transit lounge of fakery with a passion, oh ok I did let that slip... :evilsmile:
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Only two unfortunately Rabbit. Our first ever cruise with the Capt being now Commodore Romano.
Then with Capt Goidway, who was our Capt again on our most recent cruise and asked if he knew me from somewhere (but then total strangers think they know me), longest was 17 nights, sailed into the tail end of Cyclone Monica, which was fun on a little ship, but convinced Mrs Gut she need not fear rough seas any more.
It was just after that cruise that we had to take a lengthy break from cruising due to health problems, and in that time they replaced her.
But I'd be happy to do a long cruise on her.
However those who look to be entertained 24/7 may find her not to their liking, especially on a longer cruise.
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Thanks for that mate, for me it is not a matter of liking larger ships "bigger and brighter" :rolleyes: over smaller ones at all. It comes down to the length of cruise, I can completely enjoy any of them until over the between two to three week mark after that the familiarity, sameness, repetition, lack of amenities, entertainment choices available, the same faces & routine just does my head in and starts to erode the pleasurable holiday factor. ( don't get me wrong I would rather be on any cruise than at home on land any day of the week!)
We have done a 40 nighter on Dawn. a 42 night Cherry Blossom on Sea, a 45 night section of a Circle Pacific on the Sun so have given all the old sunny gals their due share to change our minds. The number of additional overnighters helps get you through the second half and a balcony is a must for us, but to contemplate 104 -110 nights on a Worldie on a very tired old Sun Class or Pacific, sorry unless the balcony price was a sub $200 bargain :eek: it's a pass for us especially if you had to be jammed into an inside or ocean view at the current price point...
Stir crazy, cabin fever call it what you like but with the number of sea days on a World cruise size does matter for us.
Cheers, r :cool:
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Can you please explain "Grand Class" and "Royal Class" and are the other princess ships a different class? Thanks
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Size and different ship builders mostly, all have their minor differences across the class as the build progresses and market catered for changes.
The link below will help form a basic overview.
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Only as part of a world cruise.
She was for a while Princess' sole representative down here.
Part of our love for her may be that she is where our love affair with cruising started.
She doesn't have all the bells and whistles, only one MDR, only one specialty restaurant open a night, (when we started on her the buffet wasn't open at night), no MUTS, but gets into ports the others can't, if you do need to tender anchors way closer. And as I keep saying with 680 passengers you get to know people (even the Captain).
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Gut
Just as a matter of interest what was the longest number of nights you spent on board her and how many cruises have you taken on her?
Cheers, r :cool:
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Yes, I suppose we must be.
“My soul is full of longing
for the secret of the sea,
and the heart of the great ocean
sends a thrilling pulse through me.”
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The boy stood on the burning deck
Playing a game of cricket
The ball rolled up his trouser leg
And hit his middle wicket.
(Anon)
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You could do Half a Worldie on the P&O UK ships, OZ to Southampton, like we did on Arcadia, 49 days in 2012, a lot less per diem than Princess Australia ships and in my opinion, a better product. They generally send one down under. Spend some time in England's Green and Pleasant Land, then fly home. Way to go. You can have black pudding and kippers for brekkie too.
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G'day Uncle Les
That could work mate with some tweaking, but leave out the fly home part once there, her indoors insists it's only been a holiday once you return cruising through the Sydney heads, so a stay & or fly to some where in Europe to then return through the Suez Canal transit back to OZ is a must on this one.
The only drawback is having to go once more to that UK Posh & Opulent website :loudcry: seriously is there a bigger mess anywhere on the web than that ill begotten spawn of Satan's path to hell and back!
Yet what is life without a little more salt...
Cheers, r :cool:
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We met a couple once that were courteous actually liked each other, smiled a lot didn't push in lines at the buffet or tender lines, didn't act like psychopaths in lifts took their correct turn in the laundry didn't go feral when confronted with a sale of any kind and didn't want to regale us with their deeds of derring do on all their previous cruises that were so much better than than this current travesty.
They also had a complete lack of the need to shove some electronic device laden with their loved ones, offspring, grandchildren, pets, relatives, latest house, garden, copious amounts of food prepared for them or the latest update to make their perfect lives moreso.
They truly were a strange one off couple, needless to say sadly now possibly extinct...
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yeah but they are likely passed on to P&O before they get scuttled.
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You're right, heaven help Patched & Orrible don't extract the last drachma before razor blades.
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I am sure there will be some differing options as those ships would be scrapped by then. :p
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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition! :D
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May be there'll be other options by the time we get to do it.
G'day Gut
Hopefully so mate, we are all geared up for a "Worldie" in 2019 but if it is still the old clunkers Sea /Sun on offer then we will have to look at something like Opua Kiwi has searched out as the allure of Sydney to Sydney inclusive does not outweigh the 100 plus nights on those two options. :o
Of course fortunately the having to fly anywhere is not a problem to us as well, unlike you two. :(
Cheers, r :cool:
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I still think the larger cruise lines are raking it in.
Of course they are mate.
While they more than cover costs for all the cattle in steerage, where they really rake in the rivers of gold are in all the Suites, minis, balconies, ocean views any of the premium accoms and when they can convince those poor bastards to jam an extra two or so in a can't swing-a-cat cabins. :eek:
Cheers r, :cool:
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A month in the US or Canada, a month in Europe and two nice ships.
Almost perfect Mic
If that last 56 day leg was on either Diamond :hearteyes:, Sapphire :hearteyes: or even the Golden instead of the rinky dinky stinky Sea :( we would be more than interested.
Anything over two weeks on Sun Class size leaves us over & out. :eek:
Cheers, r :cool:
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Sun Princess doing a world cruise from Yokohama in 2019?
in Australia & New Zealand Cruisers
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That just makes no sense at all using that old tiny tub when there are two perfect larger Japanese based ships in Diamond and Sapphire Princess more suited for over & around 100 days of cruising. :mad:
If they did use the latter you could sign us up tomorrow.
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