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Crazy half world cruise prices for departure 30 April 24 on Princess website today. Sydney to Capetown - Oceanview starting $1898 pp Capetown to Dover - Oceanview $3398 pp Doubt if it lasts long.....

Not that cheap, but interesting...

Just received a notice of changes to ANZ Platinum complimentary International travel Insurance today. I'm just checking to see if anyone else received the notice in the mail, as I could be reading this incorrectly. Insurable events before the 7th June 2024 don't change but events on and after 7th June 2024 some things will change. International Travel Insurance:- Period of cover for Platinum Credit Card cardholders -(In 2023 the period of cover was six consecutive months) has now changed after 7th June 2024 to:- three months consecutive insurance for cardholders, their spouses and/or dependants. There are other changes but this one is more important to me if I was on the 113 day World Cruise in 2025. thanks in advance.

Shocked that Princess is now charging for Chef's Table dinner and wine $207 AUD per person on our 10th December 23 cruise, a big jump in price.

Our friends are onboard. A delayed sail out tonight. It should be beautiful evening for sailaway. Enjoy the cruise.

I love going to Afternoon Tea, and will keep on going until they start charging for it. 🙂

What happened to visiting ports such as Newcastle, Gladstone and Townsville in winter. Even Batemans Bay (for Canberra) used to be on itineraries, although you need to use tenders. Pacific Explorer could visit those ports as I have been on similar size ships to those ports.

Questions I would like to ask:- 1.When I phone Princess, why do I get a different answer to the same question. They say they will ring back and never do. So I ring and ask the question again, again a different answer etc say they will ring and never do. So frustrating... Surely they have a manager they can ask... 2. Why do you have formal nights and then allow passengers to walk into the MDR with ripped tshirts, shorts or baseball hats. 3. First section of the Around the world cruises from Australia, always they same old same old ports to Dubai. 4. When will the Circle Pacific cruises resume from Australia. They are very popular. 5. Why does my Ocean Ready profile still shows me cruising on the Royal Princess in Mexico when I booked a New Zealand cruise for 2023 and the ship has been repositioned back to USA.

I was on this cruise and we enjoyed the food especially Angelo's. We did the Luke Mangan Degustation meal one night which was fabulous. We found the coffee at Charlies ( Level 5) very good, but if you wanted a large size, you had to have it in a takeaway cup. Waterfront Restaurant for lunch was nice, the dinner menu was OK but that may have been what I chose. We enjoyed our time on the ship, first P&O cruise for hubby since P&O Canberra... a long while ago