Reina del Mar

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Thanks for the suggestion..but I am not really into UBER..too technical for me.

That doesn’t sound too bad. Perhaps I’m fussing about nothing. Many thanks.

Lots of coughing on Coral Princess on Round Australia cruise in March. Ended up joining the coughing, but three Covid tests proved negative. Felt dreadful during flight home and did a fourth test before visiting Doctor…all still negative. Tests were within date. Have since read that many people were diagnosed with Lower Respiratory Tract Infections. Six weeks after coughing started, I am only just beginning to feel more like myself. Sure many people on the flight must have thought I had Covid with all the coughing. Perhaps the tests do not recognise the latest strain, but whatever it was, I have never felt that dreadful in all my life !!

Many thanks. Will check out Viator to compare.

Thank you for that..If we are meant to land at 4pm, what time would you suggest we book a transfer for ? Or maybe just grabbing a taxi when we’ve got through would be easier? We are thinking of using Booking.com airport transfers which we used in both Singapore and Sydney..in February this year. Both worked well. They track flights and allow a certain amount of waiting time. We usually book a flight to Atlanta where we clear Immigration and Customs, so we just walk out of FLL after a domestic flight. We shouldn’t have let the travel agent persuade us this was a better deal as it looks like it will be pretty stressful !!!! Thanks for your thoughts.

Just that really. We (stupidly) booked to fly into MIA rather than FLL for a cruise out of Port Everglades. Want to arrange a transfer to hotel in Fort Lauderdale and need to know approximately how long it might take to get through Immigration for Brits. Would be about 4pm on a Thursday. Many thanks.

Don”t get too excited- Elite benefits have been drastically cut back in recent times. You get the same embarkation and disembarkation lounge as Platinum. Same half price wi fi if not taking Plus/Premier package. Same lounge for evening drinks/ snacks if you want to attend. We had one mini bar set up on a 26 day cruise. Laundry is free, but not express, you would have that in a suite anyway and it would be express. Priority water shuttles if not docking in port. Opportunity to order canapés on formal nights…nothing exciting to choose from in my opinion. 10% reduction on shop purchases and shore excursions. Enjoy if you manage it !

Be aware there are different types of package- Classic Soda Package. $17.69. Per person per day including service charge (18%) Zero Alcohol Drink Package. $35.39 pppd including service charge (18%) The staff selling it on the first day must have been on commission on our cruise as they kept telling us we wanted the zero alcohol package and wouldn’t sell us the classic till we showed them what we wanted on Princess website !!!

On the Classic Soda Package, we were served cans of Coke Zero and Sprite Zero on our Australian cruise. Didn’t see Diet Dr Pepper. A variety of Mocktails was available..bottled water was not.

We did a 26 day cruise, which could have been booked in multiple segments. We booked it as one Round Australia cruise and only had one mini bar set up. Asked the steward to swap for what we would use and he’d brought our preferences before we set sail.

Disembarked 26th March…still no sign of folio being sent by email…thank goodness I printed out folio half an hour prior to disembarkation…just in case !!! Received Credit Card bill yesterday and seems to show the same amount as the copy I printed on last day. Usually receive email of folio, together with survey whilst waiting to disembark. …another ‘upgrade’ !!!!

Yes I appreciate that- but there certainly is for Darwin! Maybe extended port hours to allow for transfers although that would obviously cost more to sail faster and better organisation for port disembarkation - so many people complained at having to wait till 1 pm for a shuttle when docked at 9 am- we were fortunate to have priority disembarkation but not everyone did! Also poor information from port information talks for Adelaide and Melbourne where Port of Adelaide and Port of Melbourne were recommended was not helpful!. Free shuttles were helpful but when their air con doesn’t work it is not comfortable.- Having said all that, we did enjoy our cruise.

Thank you for that information..had no idea it was offered for King’s Coronation. Shame it is not an annual ‘sale’ !!!

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