Ovation in Sydney 28 Nov

[Kiwi Kruzer]

From the Quay West cam...Ovation of the Seas looking good after a  wash down from the heavy rain .

Edited November 28, 2018 by Kiwi Kruzer

[GUT2407]

Massive

 

[MicCanberra]

Nice, lovely ship as well. Shame so many would have missed boarding her today due to the weather.

[Suzi66]

There are a few people on the book of faces stating they were not able to get to Sydney today and so missed getting on.  One even stated that flights were cancelled yesterday because of the weather.  This I thought we would have heard of before today.

[MicCanberra]

Yes, FB has a few stories, a shame . Makes you think about coming in at least a day early for every cruise.

[Suzi66]

It is why after that one bad experience we had we will never, ever, travel on the day the ship is due to leave and we will also make sure we have plenty of time on the day before as well.

 

[Scyl]

Living in Sydney have it’s benefits! 

[lyndarra]

Saw Ovation slipping into the Quay this morning on one of the news weather reports. It looked impressive moving past behind the reporter.

[MMDown Under]

39 minutes ago, Suzi66 said:

It is why after that one bad experience we had we will never, ever, travel on the day the ship is due to leave and we will also make sure we have plenty of time on the day before as well.

 

This is the second time in a fortnight, that Sydney flights have been reduced to using only one runway, with many flights cancelled/delayed.  

 

[MicCanberra]

40 minutes ago, MMDown Under said:

This is the second time in a fortnight, that Sydney flights have been reduced to using only one runway, with many flights cancelled/delayed.  

 

With more extreme weather occurring more often, it will happen again. Plan for the possible.

[MicCanberra]

1 hour ago, Scyl said:

Living in Sydney have it’s benefits! 

We often travel up on the day for Sydney but if the planes are not running, we have the trains, buses and  our cars to have as a standby.  For other ports, we arrive the day before.

[GUT2407]

We try to travel the day before, but then sat on the F3 for days once, due to bushfires

[MicCanberra]

yep, there is always a risk the road or the tracks will be closed, or the planes grounded but rarely all three at the same time.

[Suzi66]

According to the webcam, they are just leaving now.  I was wondering if they may have been able to wait for a little bit to give some of the delayed passengers a bit of extra time.

[MicCanberra]

hopefully, some of them still made it.

[Scyl]

More photos and video I took today

https://www.cruisemore.org/posts/ovation-of-the-seas-28th-november-2018

[Kiwi Kruzer]

The next port on this cruise is Bay of Islands on Saturday and then Auckland on Sunday. Auckland would have to be the port to catch up with the cruise  , if they wanted to , but they would have lost 4 days out of a 14 day cruise.

Wonder how travel insurance will come into play on this one?

[MicCanberra]

I suspect, it would vary differently depending on each insurance policy and what they choose to do, catch up with the cruise or forget it totally. Hopefully people will have a few options to see what suits them best.

[Scyl]

2 hours ago, Kiwi Kruzer said:

The next port on this cruise is Bay of Islands on Saturday and then Auckland on Sunday. Auckland would have to be the port to catch up with the cruise  , if they wanted to , but they would have lost 4 days out of a 14 day cruise.

Wonder how travel insurance will come into play on this one?

How did they lose 4 days? Thought they only left a few hours late?

[MicCanberra]

Perhaps, it is the time difference between Australia and NZ.😛

[Kiwi Kruzer]

2 hours ago, Scyl said:

How did they lose 4 days? Thought they only left a few hours late?

 

The cruise has not lost 4 days, I was referring to those who could not get to Sydney on the day of sailing due to cancelled flights. Hopefully with the ship waiting , most passengers who were flying in on that  day  got there and boarded the ship for their cruise..Those who did not will either have insurance claims or can fly to the next available boarding port.

 

[Suzi66]

2 hours ago, Scyl said:

How did they lose 4 days? Thought they only left a few hours late?

Only 2 days surely, (and don't call me shirley).  A flight to Auckland, a short drive to Bay of Islands, stay there and do whatever port tours they wished and board there.  I suppose you could add yesterday as well and make it 3 days.

[megsie]

We were aboard as a family group and certainly had a dramatic return to Sydney.

The sunrise was bright red under the black clouds. The luggage was delayed by an hour because of the lightning and heavy rain. Quite a few had cancelled or delayed flights.

But we were lucky. Straight out to the taxi line, no waiting and driving through a few deep puddles we made it to Central then home.

But must admit we have enjoyed Ovation more than we did on this cruise.

A combination of the cruise being a short one 5N/6D, bad weather, not the usual happy staff (not all), some very inexperienced staff giving wrong information, no Joff Eaton as CD (but he is there now) and the food seemed not as nice and fresh.

But even so we still enjoyed our cruise, beats being home doing housework!

 

Edited November 29, 2018 by megsie

[Kiwi Kruzer]

10 minutes ago, Suzi66 said:

Only 2 days surely, (and don't call me shirley).  A flight to Auckland, a short drive to Bay of Islands, stay there and do whatever port tours they wished and board there.  I suppose you could add yesterday as well and make it 3 days.

 

I was thinking of what an insurance would pay , namely the most economical outcome ,

ie  ... fly to Auckland and go direct from airport and  board the ship. 

[cruisine21]

8 minutes ago, megsie said:

 

A combination of the cruise being a short one 5N/6D, bad weather, not the usual happy staff (not all), some very inexperienced staff giving wrong information, no Joff Eaton as CD (but he is there now) and the food seemed not as nice and fresh.

But even so we still enjoyed our cruise, beats being home doing housework!

 

 

We missed Joff on our Singapore to Sydney cruise.