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You can't use the words "interesting itineraries" and " cruising around Australia" in the same sentence. 🙂

In Life, there is only one thing worse than having no choices - and that is having too many choices!!

Did the Queenslander Brisbane to Cairns a couple of times years ago - boring as whatever!!! All you see from the train is scrubby bush flat country up to a point up North and from there on, nothing but canefields . All of this as opposed to the crossing of the Rockies and Sierra Nevadas from either San Francisco area or Vancouver area

THREE days in Honiara - sounds like fun (NOT) . I visited Honiara in RAN Submarine about 1980 - I expect that it hasn't changed much 🙂

Anybody looking for a pre-cruise hotel with the cruise starting from Yokohama - I would stay in Yokohama itself. It is a great city of almost 4 million people - a great place to walk around on the waterfront - Chinatown in Yokohama is the largest in Japan . And there is a cafe there at the wharf adjacent to the cruise terminal that has Hokkaido crab Ramen to die for !! 🙂

I know that I am NOT an alcoholic - because I do not/will not drink Sake!!

HINT - there is no storm and no ice falling from the sky!

We had a friend in Quebec who brought out his ice wine stash when we visited - I had never even heard of it but I do now know it is created by the Gods!!! I also never knew what an "ice storm" was - it is certainly not what I imagined it to be.

I am old and I don't know what a Ghibli is!! But we saw this clock in our wanderings and saw that it played a few times per day so we came back at an appropriate time. I was more impressed by it's existence than by what it did. 🙂 But I have to admit that at my age, I am not easily impressed anymore. What did impress me was that somebody paid for this installation for the public to see. We are both tight arsed and unimaginative in this country - if it doesn't produce a measurable positive monetary outcome we don't want to know about it!!!

Just did a quick check re comparative prices - 10 nights on New Guinea cruise P&O FROM $1044 -- 10 nights Alaska cruise On QE FROM $1529. Certainly there is a 33% difference there and we would have flights to Canada for the Alaska cruise - but Americans and Brits would have flights to Brisbane for the NG cruise . No - $500 difference does not account for the different demographics!!!

The demographic was my problem to on our Pacific Endeavour cruise - SOOOO different to the demographic on Cunard Queen Elizabeth around Japan.

Not all - even the cheap APA brand have two sizes of rooms - around 11sqM and a DELUXE 22 sq m at twice the price :(

Our was also - what hotel are you in. I hope you have checked the room size ( which we didn't do but WILL in the future) - our was 11 square metres!!!!!! --smaller than an in side cabin on most ships 🙂 BTW - Tsukiji is pronounced Squidgee

Better talk to your Bank Manager first though! 🙂 BTW - lots of it at the Outer Market in Tsukiji, Tokyo.

Didn't know and still dont know anything about Japanese hosts onboard QE in March this year.