Diamond Princess - dry dock schedule?

[Seabreeze8]

Hello,

Does anyone know when the Diamond Princess was dry docked last time or when will it be dry docked? Also what are the changes? We love the International Cafe on the Crown and would love to have it on the Diamond when we sail for Alaska in the fall. Thank you!:)

[green.herbs]

The next time that the Diamond Princess goes into drydock in in November 2010 as far as I know, it will be getting a major refit receiving the sanctuary, movies under the stars, vines, the piazza, etc.

[Passin Thru]

Gonna be hard to get it in Drydock. It's schedulde for a Bangkok-Beijing-Bangkok tour @ 16 days each ending Dec 5. Any new scoops?

[flamomo]

It's be nice if she were to get the upgrades before we cruise on her in January 2011.

[iain48]

Looks like Diamond will be in drydock from October 20th to November 3rd. There appears to be a gap in her programme then. With a cruise ending in Singapore Oct 20 and one starting there Nov3

 

Iain48

[captainron]

Hello,

Does anyone know when the Diamond Princess was dry docked last time or when will it be dry docked? Also what are the changes? We love the International Cafe on the Crown and would love to have it on the Diamond when we sail for Alaska in the fall. Thank you!:)

 

We're on her 4 Sep 10 (WTT/YVR) and she won't have anything done by then. She does another WTT/YVR/WTT after ours and then for her trip off to Beijing, so the fall doesn't seem practical at all. Will certainly miss the fresh bakeed choc chip cookies at the Int'l Cafe.

 

Ciao for now!!!

[flamomo]

You are so right about the cookies, Captain Ron. That was one of the daily delights on the Star and the Golden. If the upgrades have not been done before January, we'll be really missing them ...... warm, freshly baked, cookies ........ YUM!

[Scrapchick]

We're going to be on the cruise right before drydock and I'm nervous about that, having read some nasty stories about ships headed for drydock in the past. I've read of Princess ships literally having carpets ripped up, furniture carted away, pools drained, while still at sea and chock full of passengers....

 

Sure hope that doesn't happen on our trip....

[WestCoastCruzinator]

We're going to be on the cruise right before drydock and I'm nervous about that, having read some nasty stories about ships headed for drydock in the past. I've read of Princess ships literally having carpets ripped up, furniture carted away, pools drained, while still at sea and chock full of passengers....

 

Sure hope that doesn't happen on our trip....

 

You can almost bet that it will to some extent! :(

[Ricky Chan]

Looks like Diamond will be in drydock from October 20th to November 3rd. There appears to be a gap in her programme then. With a cruise ending in Singapore Oct 20 and one starting there Nov3

 

Iain48

 

Good for us, we will sail on her on our upcoming Sydney/Auckland cruise in January, 2011.

 

Ricky

[Putterdude]

On a schedule that I saw some months ago the Diamond was shown to be drydocked in Nov, 2011. But who knows.....:confused:

[flamomo]

Hey, Ricky!!! There's a roll call started for the 1/15/11 sailing. Not much activity yet, but we are hoping for more joiners. Hopefully the link below will work, or you could copy and paste it, if not.

 

boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1139549

[Ricky Chan]

Hey, Ricky!!! There's a roll call started for the 1/15/11 sailing. Not much activity yet, but we are hoping for more joiners. Hopefully the link below will work, or you could copy and paste it, if not.

 

boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1139549

 

Flamomo:

 

It looks like you are joining 5 days pre-cruise land tour. Which landtour you are joining?

 

Ricky

[Coracii]

Good for us, we will sail on her on our upcoming Sydney/Auckland cruise in January, 2011.

 

Ricky

 

We'll be joining you on that cruise...

[kath00]

Where is the drydock located at? It looks like she's in the Far East that whole Fall. Will they do the drydock there???

 

Katherine

[Putterdude]

She and the Sapphire were built in Japan so she may well be drydocked in Asia but Princess has been known to change their minds on this to.

[flamomo]

Ricky, we are booked on the Tropical tour, with 2 nights in Sydney and 3 in Cairns.

 

Coracii, come on over to the roll call and join us.

[Ricky Chan]

Ricky, we are booked on the Tropical tour, with 2 nights in Sydney and 3 in Cairns.

 

Coracii, come on over to the roll call and join us.

 

Flamomo:

 

We will take a 6 day Australian OutBack pre cruise tour.

 

Will check out the roll call after coming back from our trip.

 

We are leaving home for airport now.

 

Ricky

[hulamoon]

Aloha Everyone,

 

Is there a new deck plan for cruises booked after the drydock? Will the cabins change?

 

I appreciate any insight.

[Essiesmom]

She will be dry-docked in Singapore in the fall. I don't believe they will be making any cabin changes, just refurbishing and some rearrangement of public spaces. EM

[Katie333]

Anyone know if they are giving her the typical treatment (please please give me International Cafe!)?

[Woobstr112G]

She will be dry-docked in Singapore in the fall. I don't believe they will be making any cabin changes, just refurbishing and some rearrangement of public spaces. EM

 

My guess is they will add the Crown Grill possibly where the hughe internet cafe currently occupies. They will also porbably add MUTS, the international cafe and Vines. Vines will go somewhere where the scholarship at sea area or the captains's circle area currently occupies.....:):):)|

 

Bob

[nclrocks8899]

i was just on the golden princess in hawaii and i loved the upgrades i was woundering if any one has been on the diamond princess and if it has been dryed docked yet i am most licky going on here on september 3erd 2011 b2b to alaska if anyone has any info about the diamond princess plese tell me

[caribill]

i was just on the golden princess in hawaii and i loved the upgrades i was woundering if any one has been on the diamond princess and if it has been dryed docked yet i am most licky going on here on september 3erd 2011 b2b to alaska if anyone has any info about the diamond princess plese tell me

 

It was in drydock last November.

 

Sanctuary replaced sports court and jogging track

 

International Cafe was not installed

 

Flat screen TVs in cabins.

 

Supposedly new mattresses

 

MUTS added

[nclrocks8899]

It was in drydock last November.

 

Sanctuary replaced sports court and jogging track

 

International Cafe was not installed

 

Flat screen TVs in cabins.

 

Supposedly new mattresses

 

MUTS added[/quote

 

why dident they put the international cafe?? and where did you get this info???