"Live" Majestic Princess, 33-Days, Apr 10th to May 12th, Sydney to Seattle (+6 Nights Sydney Pre-Cruise)

[LACruiser88]

Coming into port.  Should be a really nice day!

 

 

[LACruiser88]

We had a super day today with our dear friend Ivica, Manager of the Allegro Dining Room.

 

Debbie had time for some shopping and we made it back to the ship to watch the 2nd half of the Lakers vs Pelicans game.  We are BIG Lakers fans!  Close game at the end and we won!

 

 

 

 

 

 

[LACruiser88]

Last night, I forgot to mention that the below wine "flew" into Vines and is now well stocked.  $18 per glass.

 

 

[LACruiser88]

Another "new" wine available in Vines, $18 a glass.  They are finally unloading wines that were brought on in Sydney.

 

 

[robncruise]

Hello Rafael and Debbie

 I met you at the port gate today and just watching you sailaway.  The last cruise ship at this port until October - Crown Princess, the first Princess ship for the 24/25 season,  here on 19 October.

Love reading your reports and will continue following your adventure and hope we catch up on board sometime.

[LACruiser88]

30 minutes ago, robncruise said:

Hello Rafael and Debbie

 I met you at the port gate today and just watching you sailaway.  The last cruise ship at this port until October - Crown Princess, the first Princess ship for the 24/25 season,  here on 19 October.

Love reading your reports and will continue following your adventure and hope we catch up on board sometime.

We really enjoyed meeting you, you are such a sweet soul!  We look forward to cruising with you in the future!  ❤️

[LACruiser88]

Amazing sunset this evening!

 

 

 

[call_your_mother]

On 4/14/2024 at 2:07 AM, LACruiser88 said:

Sorry, I forgot to answer you last night.  $140 pp

 

Thanks!

[LACruiser88]

Last night we dined at The Catch with two senior staff officers.  It was FANTASTIC!!!  Sorry, no photos.

 

We were up late, past midnight, and are having a late and slow start to the day.  🤪

 

Btw, the Majestic will have a two week dry dock in April of 2025 in Palermo, Italy.  The Harmony Restaurant "might" be going away???  If it does, The Catch will replace it and Sabatini's would go into The Catch's current location on deck 7.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 17 by LACruiser88

[LACruiser88]

Good morning Bay of Islands!

 

 

[Mike A]

@LA Cruiser1st off I have been following your live from and have enjoyed enjoyed minute 🙂. You stated the Majestic will have a 2 week dry dock in April 2025. We are on the 10 day sailing on April 21, 2025, Rome to Trieste. Did the Staff Officers provide you with exact dates in April? Hopefully, we are not affected and will have added pleasure to dine in Sabatini’s, our favorite specialty restaurant. 

Edited April 18 by Mike A

[LACruiser88]

@Mike A  I do not have the exact dates.  Sounds like it will probably be before your cruise???  If I find out the exact dates I'll let you know.

[Mike A]

Thank You @LACruiser88!!!  That’s what I figured too. Hopefully that is the case. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the rest of your cruise and look forward to following your great live from thread🙂🙂🙂

[LACruiser88]

Today we spent a very relaxing time walking around the village of Paihia, Bay of Islands.

 

 

 

 

Thank you @Yehootu for taking our photo!

 

 

 

The main street in town.

[Yehootu]

Great seeing you again. We were off to eat at a place we had seen reviews on only to find out they didn't open till 4pm. Suzanne did find a backpack of stuff for the grandkids and I found several good beers. Hope you found good wines.

[LACruiser88]

Tonight's extra dish in the Reserve Dining Room was Lobster Rissoto. They prepared grilled vegetables for our starter.  We had the coconut shrimp as a second course.  We had the Lobster Rissoto for our main and they put a few coconut shrimp on top.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[LACruiser88]

The two bands have been really good, lots of folks dancing in the Piazza.  The Prestige Quartet (from Chile) and Dynamix (boarded in Picton) are the bands.

 

[c-boy]

5 hours ago, LACruiser88 said:

Tonight's extra dish in the Reserve Dining Room was Lobster Rissoto. They prepared grilled vegetables for our starter.  We had the coconut shrimp as a second course.  We had the Lobster Rissoto for our main and they put a few coconut shrimp on top.

 

 

 

 

 

 

those are some good looking dishes. If we didn't have a cow and calf operation I could be a pescatarian 😀

[LACruiser88]

Good morning Auckland!

 

 

 

[Host CJSKIDS]

@LACruiser88 beautiful photos and looks like it's once again an amazing cruise.  Thanks for sharing it with us.  

[Muffinz]

Good to see Auckland looking fine.... unfortunately is is not supposed to stay that way today - rain with some heavy falls is forecast for this afternoon / evening

I'll try to remember to wave out to you about 19:30 as Majestic sails past our house!

[LACruiser88]

46 minutes ago, Muffinz said:

unfortunately is is not supposed to stay that way today - rain with some heavy falls is forecast for this afternoon / evening

We will be bringing our raincoats today!

[treesah]

Auckland looks lovely.  Several years ago, we stayed in Auckland for 4 - 5 days and I remember saying that within an hour, it was sunny, then it rained, then the atrocious wind picked up and after that it was freezing.  Variety is the spice of life but that was too much.  The Kiwis are so friendly and helpful.

[LACruiser88]

Today, we originally planned to take the HoHo bus around town.  But we started walking, and kept walking, and walking, and walking!!!

 

All said and done, we racked up 8.2 miles!  And, that included a whole bunch of hills!  Our feet are a bit tired!  

 

We stopped for a bit of shopping and lunch.  We were lucky, no rain!  As we were headed back to the ship the clouds were getting darker and you could smell the rain in the air.

 

Random photos from around town.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sailingkiwi]

10 hours ago, treesah said:

Auckland looks lovely.  Several years ago, we stayed in Auckland for 4 - 5 days and I remember saying that within an hour, it was sunny, then it rained, then the atrocious wind picked up and after that it was freezing.  Variety is the spice of life but that was too much.  The Kiwis are so friendly and helpful.

The Crowded House song Four Seasons in one day accurately describes the weather in Auckland. I always travel with an umbrella when I’m up there for work.