Diamond Princess around Au/NZ 33 days.

[Kiwi Kruzer]

Diamond Princess is off on her Circumnavigation of Australia and NZ.

33 days Australia from/to Sydney (22/10/15-24/11/15)

Her first day out of Sydney looks a bit rough on the bridge cam:eek:

First stop is usually Brisbane, but she is headed for Port Douglas

 

 

 

DatePortArriveDepart

Thu 22/10/15 Sydney / Australia 16:00

Fri 23/10/15 At Sea

Sat 24/10/15 At Sea

Sun 25/10/15 At Sea

Mon 26/10/15 Port Douglas (Great Barrier Reef) / Australia 07:00 17:00

Tue 27/10/15 At Sea

Wed 28/10/15 At Sea

Thu 29/10/15 Darwin / Australia 09:00 18:00

Fri 30/10/15 At Sea

Sat 31/10/15 At Sea

Sun 01/11/15 Benoa (Bali) / Indonesia 07:00 17:00

Mon 02/11/15 At Sea

Tue 03/11/15 At Sea

Wed 04/11/15 At Sea

Thu 05/11/15 Geraldton / Australia 07:00 18:00

Fri 06/11/15 Fremantle (Perth) / Australia 07:00 23:00

Sat 07/11/15 Busselton (Margaret River) / Australia 07:00 18:00

Sun 08/11/15 At Sea

Mon 09/11/15 At Sea

Tue 10/11/15 At Sea

Wed 11/11/15 Adelaide / Australia 09:00 18:00

Thu 12/11/15 At Sea

Fri 13/11/15 Melbourne / Australia 08:00 18:00

Sat 14/11/15 At Sea

Sun 15/11/15 At Sea

Mon 16/11/15 Fjordland National Park (Scenic Cruising) / New Zealand 07:00 17:00

Tue 17/11/15 Port Chalmers / New Zealand 08:00 18:00

Wed 18/11/15 Akaroa / New Zealand 08:00 18:00

Thu 19/11/15 Picton / New Zealand 08:00 18:00

Fri 20/11/15 Wellington / New Zealand 07:00 18:00

Sat 21/11/15 At Sea

Sun 22/11/15 At Sea

Mon 23/11/15 At Sea

Tue 24/11/15 Sydney / Australia 07:00

[Kiwi Kruzer]

 

Looks like it getting worse.The weather maps look OK and its a bit early for Cyclones yet.

[OzKiwiJJ]

:eek: Not a good start to GUT2407's cruise. Hopefully things will calm down once they pass Brisbane.

[kenexx]

Damn. It's never like this when we are on them 😟

[Kiwi Kruzer]

Looks like the weather is improving for them a they head north.:)

[Kiwi Kruzer]

Early morning sail through the Whitsundays , as they head to Port Douglas

 

Edited October 24, 2015 by Kiwi Kruzer

[thistledoo]

We're on the Diamond, cruising through the Whitsundays. It's a beautiful morning with calm seas. The ship handled the rough weather up the NSW coast very well. All is good with the world.

[Kiwi Kruzer]

We're on the Diamond, cruising through the Whitsundays. It's a beautiful morning with calm seas. The ship handled the rough weather up the NSW coast very well. All is good with the world.

 

Thanks for the update. Enjoy your day cruising the Whitsundays. Beautiful part of the world...:):)

[Aussieflyer]

Looks lovely thistledoo; enjoy the cruise. It's a great itinerary with a good mix of sea days and ports - and of course plenty of time to get settled.

Edited October 24, 2015 by Aussieflyer

[Kiwi Kruzer]

Anchored off Port Douglas today

 

 

The reef boats are setting out..

 

[icat2000]

Nothing like a bit of rough weather at the start. :D

[redeye84]

Hi, I'm hoping someone on the Diamond can answer these questions.

I'm boarding the Diamond when it gets to Fremantle. Does the laundry run on US quarters? Can you access the 240 power point under the bed and plug a power board in with an adapter? Or does an Australian laptop with an adapter run ok on the US 110 plug by the desk? I know it won't damage it but I'm wondering if it'll run too slowly.

Thanks

[thistledoo]

Fun and games in Port Douglas. The tender process back to the ship has gone terribly awry. The tide is so low none of the tenders can leave. We were asked to disembark our tender as it stuck to the bottom. Row, row, row your boat chorus has just been sung by the crowd.

[GUT2407]

She was a bit rough for a while, but the pa two days have been smooth sailing.

 

The Tender from Port Douglas out to the ship was a Tad bouncy.

 

Having a fantastic cruise do far, but for som strang reason nylon I meet that doesn't like m thinks I'm Mic from Canberra:p or gbenjo;).

 

Not sure how that's happening.

[GUT2407]

Hi, I'm hoping someone on the Diamond can answer these questions.

I'm boarding the Diamond when it gets to Fremantle. Does the laundry run on US quarters? Can you access the 240 power point under the bed and plug a power board in with an adapter? Or does an Australian laptop with an adapter run ok on the US 110 plug by the desk? I know it won't damage it but I'm wondering if it'll run too slowly.

Thanks

 

Laundry seems to run on tokens, you sipe your card and out pop tokens, I'm pretty sure DW said $6 a load wash and dry and $1.50 for detergent if you haven't bought your own.

 

Your laptop will charge fine with a US adapter, but may take a bit longer to charge. But the computer itself will run the same a at home, but the Internet is a bit, what you might call slow.

 

I can't see a power point under th bed.

[GUT2407]

Diamond Princess is off on her Circumnavigation of Australia and NZ.

33 days Australia from/to Sydney (22/10/15-24/11/15)

Her first day out of Sydney looks a bit rough on the bridge cam:eek:

First stop is usually Brisbane, but she is headed for Port Douglas

 

 

 

DatePortArriveDepart

Thu 22/10/15 Sydney / Australia 16:00

Fri 23/10/15 At Sea

Sat 24/10/15 At Sea

Sun 25/10/15 At Sea

Mon 26/10/15 Port Douglas (Great Barrier Reef) / Australia 07:00 17:00

Tue 27/10/15 At Sea

Wed 28/10/15 At Sea

Thu 29/10/15 Darwin / Australia 09:00 18:00

Fri 30/10/15 At Sea

Sat 31/10/15 At Sea

Sun 01/11/15 Benoa (Bali) / Indonesia 07:00 17:00

Mon 02/11/15 At Sea

Tue 03/11/15 At Sea

Wed 04/11/15 At Sea

Thu 05/11/15 Geraldton / Australia 07:00 18:00

Fri 06/11/15 Fremantle (Perth) / Australia 07:00 23:00

Sat 07/11/15 Busselton (Margaret River) / Australia 07:00 18:00

Sun 08/11/15 At Sea

Mon 09/11/15 At Sea

Tue 10/11/15 At Sea

Wed 11/11/15 Adelaide / Australia 09:00 18:00

Thu 12/11/15 At Sea

Fri 13/11/15 Melbourne / Australia 08:00 18:00

Sat 14/11/15 At Sea

Sun 15/11/15 At Sea

Mon 16/11/15 Fjordland National Park (Scenic Cruising) / New Zealand 07:00 17:00

Tue 17/11/15 Port Chalmers / New Zealand 08:00 18:00

Wed 18/11/15 Akaroa / New Zealand 08:00 18:00

Thu 19/11/15 Picton / New Zealand 08:00 18:00

Fri 20/11/15 Wellington / New Zealand 07:00 18:00

Sat 21/11/15 At Sea

Sun 22/11/15 At Sea

Mon 23/11/15 At Sea

Tue 24/11/15 Sydney / Australia 07:00

 

Just to clarify Port Douglas wa always going to be our first stop.

 

Darin next. After to more sea days.

 

A lot of sea days yippee love them sea days.

[thistledoo]

Gut, lucky you got an early tender back. We're just on, they're pnly taking 50 on each tender.

[GUT2407]

:eek: Not a good start to GUT2407's cruise. Hopefully things will calm down once they pass Brisbane.

 

The only real problem was that clumsy Gut kicked his little toe when the ship rolled Abd it's black and blue.

[GUT2407]

Gut, lucky you got an early tender back. We're just on, they're pnly taking 50 on each tender.

 

We've only been back about 15 minutes, but our tender was fully laden. A fair old line to get on, might mean a late departure if they can only bing back 50 at a time.

[Kiwi Kruzer]

The joys of tendering...:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Good luck.

 

 

[GUT2407]

The joys of tendering...:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Good luck.

 

 

 

And this cruise is nearly all tender ports.

[Kiwi Kruzer]

And this cruise is nearly all tender ports.

 

Murphys Law....

By the time you get to the last one they will get it right..:D

[thistledoo]

It's all good. We made it back in time for Happy Hour ahead of the multitudes behind us :):):). The most deserted Happy Hour we've ever been to!

[NaughtyNanna]

Hi Everyone. Counting the days until I join you in Freo! Just starting to think about the packing list! This is my first Princess cruise and I am wondering if the staterooms have makeup mirrors - either on the desk or in the bathroom. This is in an OV not a suite!! :mad:

 

Also, because I am sailing from my home port and it is easy, I will be bringing wine aboard and paying the corkage. I haven't ever done that before and I was wondering how it all works for dinner. Do I take a bottle to the MDR the first night and it just stays there with my name on it, or do I get it back after the meal and take it back to the cabin?

 

Glad to hear you are all enjoying the cruise so far!

 

Regards

Jan

[thistledoo]

Hi NaughtyNanna

 

We paid for corkage on wine. We bought some wine to have in our cabin, and one bottle in particular that was a gift to take to the dining room. They stamped the three bottles we paid corkage on, leaving two unstamped.

 

Murphys Law being what it is, the unstamped bottle was one we wanted to take to the dining room and they wouldn't allow us to take it in without paying additional corkage because it wasn't stamped. So make sure they stamp your best bottles and keep the roughies for the cabin.

 

Hope this makes sense!