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Aussie Gal

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  • Location
    Melbourne, Australia
  • Interests
    TRAVEL, READING, THEATRE, OPERA, MOVIES, WINE, FOOD
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    OCEANIA, PRINCESS
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    EVERYWHERE

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  1. We got our Aft Suite on the Diamond for our 24 day cruise from Tokyo to Melbourne in September, 2024. We are happy with both the ship and the itinerary.
  2. We too are hoping to do the Diamond repo cruise in Sept 2024. We were originally going to do the return cruise to Tokyo from Aust as it would be cherry blossom time but we had already booked another cruise plus you would be going into cold weather. The September cruise from Tokyo starts off warm and hopefully stsys warm at least to Qld. Also we can finish in Melbourne which is a big plus for us.
  3. It depends on how many bottles you drink in a week. A bottle of wine usually lasts us 2 nights so for a week that would be 3.5 bottles a week. I am sure you can bring on wine at the various ports that you visit, as long as you pay the corkage.
  4. We too are bringing on board our own wines as we appreciate good wine and would prefer to pay the corkage than pay Princess the exhorbitant prices they want for inferior wine.
  5. I so agree. We like to have a coffee once a day at the International Cafe with our lunch and now at $6 x 2 =$12 x 17 days = $204 which is a lot to pay. We don't drink"sodas" so buying that card at $40 a day x 2 = $80 x 17 dsys is out of the question. Especially as the coffee is nowhere near as good as here at home in Melbourne. We will just have to resort to drinking tea at lunch.
  6. I understood he was looking for an hotel near the airport and cruise terminal so therefore my answer was correct being the nearest and best hotel to both! Otherwise if he wants to be near the city then he needs to ask about a city hotel. You cannot have both as the airport is not near the city.
  7. We spent a night at the Pullman at Brisbane airport and then took a taxi next morning to the port. We were able to walk to the hotel from the airport, going first of all through the carpark and following the footpath. It is a very comfortable hotel and we enjoyed our stay there even though it was still just starting to open up after coming out of lockdown. This was last July The taxi from the hotel to the port cost us around $45 and it is the nearest hotel to the Port.
  8. We were also booked on the little Pacific Princess, Sydney to Tokyo, until Covid reared its ugly head so that Princess in the end decided to sell the ship. We are going to book the Tokyo to Melbourne cruise on the Diamond for September next year. We have been to Japan twice before though this time the Diamond does go to a few new ports which is always a bonus.
  9. Obviously Princess doesn't count the 5 million people who live here enough to give us a ship for the whole of summer. I don't understand why Brisbane with their awful port get the best of everything.
  10. Princess also enlarged the ship from 2670 guests to over 3080 guests. I believe they ruined the ship when they did this.
  11. I believe that is the case. In fact I think you had to be a customer of a U.S. Agent for longer than 10 years. I can buy from my U.S. agent as I have the history of using her long before the rules were changed but as our dollar is so low, I haven't bothered booking with her for a few years as the amount you save is lost when it is converted back to our money. Also, when booking just Australian cruises, it is cheaper to buy here than what she could offer me.
  12. We have passed by Easter Island three times and each time it was too windy to go ashore. It is a tender port and quite rocky so the weather plays a huge part in whether you get to go ashore. If that is going to be the deal breaker then forget it as more ships miss it than those who manage to anchor there. It is a gamble and each time we didn't know whether we would get ashore until we had arrived at the island and then it is up to the Captain and the weather bureau on Easter Island.
  13. I don't think we have been given the U.S. pricing, only the Aussie and N.Z. prices seem to be the only ones released.
  14. It is a great itinerary. If you can get to Machu Picchu for a day or so, it will be well worth it. We did a side trip back in 2006 for five days and loved that part of Peru, especially Cusco and the Sacred Valley.
  15. Look forward to meetimg you in 18 months time!
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