Best time of the year to cruise Australia....

[SPacificbound]

On 1/2/2022 at 9:21 PM, tomb73 said:

So, my wife and I have been considering a cruise/trip to Australia for a long time.   Sadly the Covid thing has complicated issues, but we are still hoping to do something for our 50th anniversary trip in 2025.     So, what is the 'best' time/season to do a cruise (we are looking at the around Australia one on Princess)?   We have a great cruise guy, and I think we are planning far enough out, just trying to understand the considerations.    We're retired, so don't have any issues related to school timing....    In fact would be OK going at the 'worst' time from a tourist perspective to reduce crowding and pricing.   Just trying to understand what the options are....   Thanks for any suggestions in advance...

Since you are looking at a circumnavigation, have you also considered cruising back to the US? It's much better than a flight. An example would be Sydney to Honolulu to US West coast. This would be coming out of Australia in April which is lovely. 

[MMDown Under]

On 1/10/2022 at 4:07 PM, SPacificbound said:

Since you are looking at a circumnavigation, have you also considered cruising back to the US? It's much better than a flight. An example would be Sydney to Honolulu to US West coast. This would be coming out of Australia in April which is lovely. 

There are lots of beautiful South Pacific islands between Australia and US, such as NZ, Fiji, Tonga, Cook Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Samoa, Tahiti and Hawaii to consider as stopovers.