2023 World Cruise coming out January 18

[Tampa Girl]

22 hours ago, KirkNC said:

There you go!  Still eight ports between New Zealand and Africa.

 

But 6 are in Australia.  I guess I should have said between Australia and Africa.  Not enough of a difference in culture between New Zealand and Australia, so I count them as one.  The point is, for my purpose, the 2023 is not as interesting, but each to his/her own.

[zelker]

44 minutes ago, scubadawg said:

We just waitlisted for Ft Lauderdale to Sydney. 

Can't be gone for 128 days or I would book the whole cruise!. 

OK, how do you know what the potential segments will be, can you waitlist for a specific stateroom category, and did you have to put down a deposit to waitlist?

[IslandThyme]

Interesting, Tampa Girl. I was hoping to persuade you guys to book it. There are a ton of ports I haven't been to already, so to me it is a super-interesting itinerary.

[scubadawg]

27 minutes ago, zelker said:

OK, how do you know what the potential segments will be, can you waitlist for a specific stateroom category, and did you have to put down a deposit to waitlist?

My PC called WC desk. Segments are Ft Lauderdale to Sydney

Sydney to Capetown 

Capetown to Amsterdam 

and I assume Amsterdam to Ft Lauderdale as I only inquired about the 1st 3.

 

I did $100 futuredam and said inside or outside.  Segments are only guarantee, cant pick your cabin. Price not known yet.

 

When waitlist opens up then they ask for a deposit or that was how 2020 worked.  Unfortunately my Singapore to Capetown segment got caught up in the early days of Covid so didn't get to do it.

[Cruiz'nBaers]

My husband and I are thinking about booking this World Cruise, the itinerary looks great, for the most part.  We have never been on a cruise for longer than 23 days, and that was on the Zaandam from Ft. Lauderdale to Seattle in 2018.  I imagine there is a lot of planning involved for the cruise, but, also in making arrangements to have our home looked after while we would be gone.  Any tips or suggestions for a couple of WC novices?

[Roz]

@Cruiz'nBaers, the World Cruising forum here on CC has a lot of posts and information dealing with preparations for a WC.

[mame42]

2 hours ago, IslandThyme said:

Is it insanely early to start a rollcall?

NO!!!

[Gail & Marty sailing away]

2 hours ago, Cruiz'nBaers said:

My husband and I are thinking about booking this World Cruise, the itinerary looks great, for the most part.  We have never been on a cruise for longer than 23 days, and that was on the Zaandam from Ft. Lauderdale to Seattle in 2018.  I imagine there is a lot of planning involved for the cruise, but, also in making arrangements to have our home looked after while we would be gone.  Any tips or suggestions for a couple of WC novices?

You are more than welcome to email us and ask questions we have done 4 

Gail and marty

martygottlieb13@gmail.com

904 219 9880

[Tampa Girl]

8 hours ago, IslandThyme said:

Interesting, Tampa Girl. I was hoping to persuade you guys to book it. There are a ton of ports I haven't been to already, so to me it is a super-interesting itinerary.

 

Hi Abra!  Would love to see you on another cruise.  Would join you until after Australia.  We will see . . .

[Gail & Marty sailing away]

It is filling up fast ...😃

[whogo]

I am a not a world cruiser, don't get a vote, realize that repeat world cruisers want some variety, but this is not my dream itinerary. Hal gets points for making their world cruises a complete circumnavigation. A 130 day cruise that sails west from Florida through the Panama Canal  and the Suez Canal an ends in Barcelona is not a world cruise, it is a repositioning cruise. 

 

I want a world cruise that visits places that I would not fly to or that are not part of "normal" cruises. The Holland America world cruise gets points added for Indian Ocean and West African ports, points deducted for Europe (Bergen in April?) and for completely missing South America and Asia.

 

I did not verify the accuracy of this itinerary:

Jan 3     Tuesday     Ft. Lauderdale, FL     embark     5:00 PM
Jan 5     Thursday     Georgetown, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, UK     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
Jan 7     Saturday     Puerto Limón (San José), Costa Rica     7:00 AM     4:00 PM
Jan 8     Sunday     Transit Panama Canal-Cruise Only     --     --
            Fuerte Amador, Panama*     8:00 PM     --
Jan 9     Monday     Fuerte Amador, Panama     --     5:00 PM
Jan 18     Wednesday     Taiohae, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas, French Polynesia     8:00 AM     11:00 PM
Jan 20     Friday     Fakarava, Tuamotu, French Polynesia     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
Jan 21     Saturday     Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia*     8:00 AM     --
Jan 22     Sunday     Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia     --     5:00 AM
            Moorea, French Polynesia     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
Jan 23     Monday     Bora Bora, French Polynesia     8:00 AM     11:00 PM
Jan 25     Wednesday     Rarotonga, Cook Islands     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
Jan 27     Friday     Cross International Date Line-Lose a Day     --     --
Jan 29     Sunday     Vava'u, Tonga     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
Jan 30     Monday     Nuku'alofa, Tonga     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
Feb 2     Thursday     Auckland, New Zealand     7:00 AM     5:00 PM
Feb 3     Friday     Tauranga (Rotorua), New Zealand     8:00 AM     6:00 PM
Feb 4     Saturday     Gisborne, New Zealand     8:00 AM     3:00 PM
Feb 5     Sunday     Wellington, New Zealand     8:00 AM     11:00 PM
Feb 9     Thursday     Sydney, Australia*     8:00 AM     --
Feb 10     Friday     Sydney, Australia     --     6:00 PM
Feb 12     Sunday     Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia     8:00 AM     4:00 PM
            Hobart, Tasmania, Australia*     8:00 PM     --
Feb 13     Monday     Hobart, Tasmania, Australia     --     4:00 PM
            Scenic Cruising Cape Raoul-Cruise Only     --     --
Feb 15     Wednesday     Adelaide, South Australia, Australia*     2:00 PM     --
Feb 16     Thursday     Adelaide, South Australia, Australia     --     11:00 PM
Feb 17     Friday     Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, Australia     8:00 AM     6:00 PM
Feb 21     Tuesday     Fremantle (Perth), Australia*     8:00 AM     --
Feb 22     Wednesday     Fremantle (Perth), Australia     --     5:00 PM
Mar 2     Thursday     Port Louis, Mauritius     8:00 AM     7:00 PM
Mar 3     Friday     La Possession, Réunion, France     8:00 AM     6:00 PM
Mar 5     Sunday     Tôlanaro, Madagascar      8:00 AM     5:00 PM
Mar 8     Wednesday     Maputo, Mozambique     8:00 AM     6:00 PM
Mar 10     Friday     Durban, South Africa     7:00 AM     5:00 PM
Mar 12     Sunday     East London, South Africa     10:00 AM     6:00 PM
Mar 14     Tuesday     Cape Town, South Africa*     7:00 AM     --
Mar 15     Wednesday     Cape Town, South Africa     --     11:00 PM
Mar 17     Friday     Luderitz, Namibia     9:00 AM     5:00 PM
Mar 18     Saturday     Walvis Bay, Namibia     9:00 AM     7:00 PM
Mar 21     Tuesday     Luanda, Angola     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
Mar 25     Saturday     Takoradi, Ghana     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
Mar 26     Sunday     Adbijan, Côte d'Ivoire     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
Mar 29     Wednesday     Banjul, The Gambia     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
Mar 30     Thursday     Dakar, Senegal     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
Apr 2     Sunday     Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
Apr 3     Monday     Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
Apr 4     Tuesday     Agadir, Morocco     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
Apr 6     Thursday     Casablanca, Morocco     7:00 AM     7:00 PM
Apr 7     Friday     Tangier, Morocco     8:00 AM     6:00 PM
Apr 8     Saturday     Málaga (Granada), Spain     8:00 AM     6:00 PM
Apr 9     Sunday     Cadiz (Seville), Spain     8:00 AM     6:00 PM
 Apr 10     Monday     Lisbon, Portugal     10:00 AM     9:00 PM
Apr 12     Wednesday     A Coruña, Spain     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
Apr 14     Friday     Brest, France     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
Apr 15     Saturday     Portland, England, UK     7:00 AM     7:00 PM
Apr 16     Sunday     Le Havre (for Paris), France     7:00 AM     7:00 PM
Apr 17     Monday     Zeebrugge (Brugge/Brussels), Belgium     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
Apr 18     Tuesday     Amsterdam, The Netherlands*     8:00 AM     --
Apr 19     Wednesday     Amsterdam, The Netherlands     --     5:00 PM
 Apr 21     Friday     Copenhagen, Denmark     8:00 AM     6:00 PM
Apr 22     Saturday     Oslo, Norway     11:00 AM     6:00 PM
            Scenic Cruising Oslofjord     --     --
Apr 23     Sunday     Kristiansand, Norway     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
Apr 24     Monday     Stavanger, Norway     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
Apr 25     Tuesday     Eidfjord, Norway     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
            Scenic Cruising Hardangerfjord     --     --
 Apr 26     Wednesday     Bergen, Norway     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
Apr 28     Friday     Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK     8:00 AM     6:00 PM
Apr 29     Saturday     Oban, Scotland, UK     8:00 AM     4:00 PM
Apr 30     Sunday     Dublin, Ireland     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
May 1     Monday     Cobh (Cork), Ireland     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
May 4     Thursday     Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal     8:00 AM     5:00 PM
May 11     Thursday     Ft. Lauderdale, FL     7:00 AM     Disembark

[KirkNC]

Very few of the WC’s visit all six (or seven) continents each year.  I think perhaps Viking and Oceania may but they are over 200 days long.  HAL’s approach has been to shuffle the continent’s so every two or three years so everything is covered.  As I mentioned before, part of the problem is it’s cold in Asia in the winter.  They could start at a different time of year I guess.  Another option is to sail eastward so you hit Asia in the spring but sailing eastward means you lose an hour 24 times.  Gaining an hour 24 times is bad enough but losing one is much worse.  Particularly since they come in bunches.  
 

Edited January 20, 2021 by KirkNC

[carolyn22]

Sigh.  Yet another year where I’m not interested in the itinerary. Way too much Africa for me, which I have no desire to see. I was supposed to go on the 2019 WC, which had a dream itinerary for me. Then my mom got sick a few weeks before we were supposed to depart, and we had to cancel. I still tear up when I think about missing it. I’ve not seen an itinerary close to that again. Maybe in a few more years they’ll offer something similar.  
 

I don’t know why HAL keeps doing Grand Africa and Grand South America in the same years when the WC covers many of the same ports. Quite a few years ago they had a Grand that went to Hawaii, French Polynesian, NZ, and Australia, then back to the US. I would love to do that one. Or even a Grand European one, which I also haven’t seen offered in the last few years. 
 

C’mon HAL!  Mix up your Grands a little more!

[Horizon chaser 1957]

On 1/19/2021 at 10:28 AM, zelker said:

OK, how do you know what the potential segments will be, can you waitlist for a specific stateroom category, and did you have to put down a deposit to waitlist?

On the HAL site, search Grand Voyages. Open the Filters menu, and choose ‘Inactive’.

That will bring up the segments. There is no pricing available on them, and you can’t book, but they do show up. 
We’re booked for the Singapore - Ft. Lauderdale segment of the 2022, or at least waitlisted. They needed to know the highest and lowest stateroom category we would take, and required a first payment somewhere north of $3000 to be on the list. We won’t get a price or a cabin until they know what’s available much later on.

Edited January 21, 2021 by Horizon chaser 1957

[weeislayman]

7 hours ago, Horizon chaser 1957 said:

On the HAL site, search Grand Voyages. Open the Filters menu, and choose ‘Inactive’.

That will bring up the segments. There is no pricing available on them, and you can’t book, but they do show up. 
We’re booked for the Singapore - Ft. Lauderdale segment of the 2022, or at least waitlisted. They needed to know the highest and lowest stateroom category we would take, and required a first payment somewhere north of $3000 to be on the list. We won’t get a price or a cabin until they know what’s available much later on.

First of all, thank you for that very helpful tip.  And also, your choice of segment looks very appealing....
Ronnie

[BVILady]

On 1/18/2021 at 7:35 AM, KirkNC said:

Initially they just sell the whole cruise but later on segments will become available.

My cruise specialist told me that it is questionable for segments to become available since there is so much demand for world cruises right now with 2020 and 2021 having been cancelled. I have spoken to HAL because I wanted to book a segment for my son and they told me we can put down a refundable deposit to wait list in case they ever will open a segment.

[whogo]

I hope the world cruises are fellow sea day fans,  you will have 9 nights at sea between Panama and French Polynesia, 8 nights between Australia and Mauritius. I assume the big dip down to the Azores from Cobh is to provide better weather for the final stretch into Fort Lauderdale.

[Gail & Marty sailing away]

55 minutes ago, whogo said:

I hope the world cruises are fellow sea day fans,  you will have 9 nights at sea between Panama and French Polynesia, 8 nights between Australia and Mauritius. I assume the big dip down to the Azores from Cobh is to provide better weather for the final stretch into Fort Lauderdale.

Good time to help with Project Linus 

[zelker]

5 minutes ago, Gail & Marty sailing away said:

Good time to help with Project Linus 

Our longest cruise to date is 40 days but I always take small crochet projects to work on, no matter the length.  Lately I've been making soap sacks to donate to the Soap S.A.C.K. project.  👍

[KirkNC]

4 hours ago, whogo said:

I hope the world cruises are fellow sea day fans,  you will have 9 nights at sea between Panama and French Polynesia, 8 nights between Australia and Mauritius. I assume the big dip down to the Azores from Cobh is to provide better weather for the final stretch into Fort Lauderdale.

Any world cruise will have stretches of sea days, the oceans are big and not a lot in the middle of them.  Our longest stretch for us was on the 2019 WC when we were not able to get off in Easter Island (only about 1/3 did due to seas), that was an eleven day stretch.

[Cruise NH]

1 hour ago, KirkNC said:

Any world cruise will have stretches of sea days, the oceans are big and not a lot in the middle of them.  Our longest stretch for us was on the 2019 WC when we were not able to get off in Easter Island (only about 1/3 did due to seas), that was an eleven day stretch.

 

ok, I can play that game...on the QM2 2020 WC we went 14 days at sea after all the Asian ports were cancelled and we went (after waiting for a fuel barge for awhile) to Fremantle for the first time.  Couldn't be avoided but yes I was THRILLED to be on dry land at the end of that stretch.

[DeeDee Groff]

On 1/18/2021 at 2:00 PM, Tampa Girl said:

 

We did Grand Asia in 2018.  Wonderful cruise and would consider it if they ever offer it again.  I wonder if there is any chance . . . 

 

One poster mentioned the reduced number of suites on the Zaandam.  It is true that it has half the number of NS's on the 7th deck than had the Amsterdam, but does anyone know how many Vista Suites are available on that ship?  Half of deck 7 were Vista Suites.  I suspect that the poster's concern that the reduced number will be reflected in a higher cabin rate.

 

I wonder what Cunard will come up in 2023 for their WC.  A possibility.

 

Still hoping for another Grand Asia in 2023 or 2024......

[KirkNC]

5 hours ago, DeeDee Groff said:

 

Still hoping for another Grand Asia in 2023 or 2024......

Pre-pandemic that would have been highly likely, post pandemic, who knows.

[The Beaver]

On 1/18/2021 at 10:33 AM, KirkNC said:

Yes there are six ports in Australia including two in Tasmania between NZ and Africa plus two ports in the Mauritius.

FYI: Port-Louis is in Mauritius whilst La Possession is a cruise port on the French island of La Réunion 

[GeorgesGal]

I like this itinerary better than the one Oceania has, which is the northern Asia route.  On the other hand I like the free inclusions of the O world cruise better.  When you add the cost of these to those given by HAL, it's probably a wash cost wise:

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