Over from NZ

We used this company and did the ultimate tour. It was brilliant! https://www.rocktoursgibraltar.com/packages/ultimate-tour However, if you're short on time to fit in the Gin tasting.. they have shorter tours.

Don't over think it. There will be some people that don their glad-rags and suits and go to dinner. Some will turn up to the MDR in shorts and T-shirts. The photographers will try their hardest to get the dressed up to have their photo taken. There might be something "special" on the menu.. but most won't know. There will be a few "Elites" rattling their jewelry.. but mostly it's a bit of a meh night. Knock your self out if you love dressing up and preening.. otherwise it's really just like any night 🙂

It's ironic; because out of Australia.. the bogans are on P&O.. their parents on Carnival and their Grandparents are on Princess. Once the young bogans get old, they transition through the lines haha. Same class of people.. just different ages 🙂

This is the key to it - "However, given the strategic reality of the South Pacific's small population and significantly higher operating and regulatory costs, we're adjusting our approach," he said. That's coded for - Down under is a small market and not as profitable. Add to that, NZ is becoming problematic for them and other regulatory issues.. and Aus is the backwater where they want to squeeze a better return out of with less ships. Expect fewer options and increased fares I would think.

That's interesting that Caribbean is more casual than Europe. 6 formal nights last year in the Mediterranean.. shorts and t-shirts were acceptable at all of them in the MDR. So it must be anything goes in the Caribbean!

No damage reported and no tsunami. Luckily it was very deep and a long way off Vila.

I second that. Small, dry and tasteless sums it up.

The answer is - Yes, you can charge your gambling to your onboard account.

Thank you! Really appreciated!

As others have said.. taxis are plentiful and inexpensive to/from the airport/port. Singapore is very small.. but so much to do! Most Hotels are central and the MRT is an exceptional and easy way to get around the city. Stay at least 2 nights if you can.

Any suggestions on excursions etc?

Exactly! 😁

Cheers. I avoid those events.. so we won't bump into each other lol. I can't comment on Celebrity or RC.. but on Princess it's rife. Who cares how many times you've cruised. 😁🤣

Yep. Yet you can go to the supermarket where they work on low margin, high turnover.. and they don't charge an extra cent if you use your c/card. Obviously the c/card companies are having their wicked-way with some retailers charging them up to 3% when they can charge the big retailers next to nothing. Time they were taken to task as a near-monopoly. 😁

Yep lol. I reckon it would as cringey as anything haha. All the noters trying to out-do each other as to who's more "elite" haha. But if that's your thing.. 🤣

Now that's something I would avoid!!! 😛

Yes, but you can (and should) ignore that on the eft-pos machine when it pops up. Yep, we're seeing it occur more frequently in the tourist hop-spots.. where the eft-pos machines are asking you if you wish to add a tip. The answer we want to give is - "hell no, do I sound like an American?". I think the poster above was right onto it though - the simple explanation that should be given to US visitors.. is just don't do it! If you want to offload your money - just buy more. Eat out more, upgrade whatever you're doing.. do extra excursions. I.e. spend more.. but don't tip a cent. Excellent service is what's expected for the base fare.

A wrap-around promenade! Turn up the volume a bit on the MUTS for movies. Ditch smoking indoors (it's 2024 for goodness sake!). Make sure to include the Irish Bar! And while we're designing the ultimate Princess ship - can we chuck in a suggestion for the itinerary. Spend more time in the ports! This nonsense of 6-8 hours in a port and then slowly cruising to the next annoys me. Give us longer in each port.. or heck, even overnights in the ports! 🙂

Well the good thing is that next to nobody uses cash anymore.. so you don't even need to round the bill up. When they hand you the tap & go or the eftpos machine.. it's going to be $47.50. Maybe with the demise of cash.. we can kick this tipping nonsense to the curb 🙂

Last year, we used these guys - https://www.ephesusshuttle.com/categories/kusadasi-to-ephesus?id=1 They were excellent. The tour guide was Melis. Highly recommend. We did it as a group of 4 and it was only USD$84 each.

Mykonos is very walkable. We had on our list to see the Wind Mills, the old Harbour, Little Venice and the Bougainvillea and white-washed stone streets from the picture-cards.. and they're all in the same general area.

Out of Aussie; it's the same people on Princess.. just a generation older. 😂

They're exceptional ports if you're willing to put the effort in! 🙂 We've been to them all twice. First time around we sold ourselves short in Marseille by not organising anything. Was our fault. Second time we went to the Palace of the Popes in Avignon and the Pont Du Gard.

We didn't take our teen when we did the Med (twice). However they were "ghost towns". Almost no kids/teens on the ship at all (May/June both times). I even took a pic to show him that he probably wouldn't have enjoyed it like he enjoyed the South Pacific cruises over holiday periods.

Are you looking for best or cheapest? Taxi or Uber is by far the easiest.