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if you're booking online direct with Princess it can sometimes show there are no cabins available - as many are bought up by Travel Agents, so your friend was probably best to contact a T/A and ask about availability

there's a thread on here about princess soda packages and some people said there was Dr Pepper on their cruise - so maybe it depends what ship or where the ship is cruising from? Dr Pepper is not that popular in Australia (or New Zealand) so maybe they couldn't get any or just decided not to put any on Majestic?

My understanding is that in Aus / NZ there is no smoking permitted in the casino on Princess ships - can someone confirm this? Our only cruise to date was on Celebrity Solstice in 2018 and we loved it - and we're booked on Crown Princess in December 2024, so it will be interesting to compare We probably won't use the casino - unless we have to go through there to get to another part of the ship. we priced a similar cruise on Celebrity in Dec 2024 and Princess was way cheaper

yes - way better, as you have a much more comfortable seat with more leg room. with the sky couch it's just a row of 3 seats really and 1 or 2 people can book it., but we had more space between us because we had 3 seats between 2 and we could put up the arm rests. but it's certainly not big enough for 2 'slightly larger' people to comfortably lie down and sleep. if I had the money I'd do Premium economy - especially for a long haul flight

We flew Auckland - Vancouver return in July last year on Air NZ it's a 13 hr direct flight and it was in darkness pretty much the whole way (maybe I didn't know it was daylight as the blind thing was shut?) flight left Akl 8pm and arrived Vancouver 2pm We chose the 'sky couch' option on Air NZ and it was ok, but all you're really paying for is to have the whole row to yourselves. Unfortunately we had a lot of kids on the plane that were very 'vocal' and we didn't sleep much at all. Coming back we managed to bid and win an upgrade to Premium economy and that was very good. Flight left Vancouver 9:30pm and arrived in Auckland 5:45am and was in darkness the whole time

Sadly this is true - not just no cruise ships either we were supposed to be on Majestic in Feb 2023, but about 3 weeks before final payment in 2022, Majestic docked in Sydney with over 800 covid positive people on board... we decided to cancel that cruise mainly due to the large number of covid cases still happening on cruise ships We're on Crown Princess in December, so hopefully we'll be ok.... we're certainly not living our lives around covid,but we are still weary of catching it

but then there are others who really want / need the wifi to keep in touch with loved ones by video link / zoom / whatsapp on a daily basis The plus package works for some and doesn't for others - simple as that

thanks - we're most likely staying at the Hilton 2 nights pre-cruise and will probably visit David Jones then

thanks for that - something to look into

thanks for posting this - Japan is on our bucket list will follow with interest

thanks - we've been to Sydney a couple of times before and have seen places like Harbour Bridge, Opera House and Botanical gardens.... but can check what excursions are on offer from Princess We did look at Bounce? I think it was and I sent them an enquiry asking if they were open Boxing day and didn't heard back

Hi All, We're disembarking our cruise on Boxing day 26 Dec 2024 in Sydney OPT We will probably be off the ship 9-9:30am? and our flight doesn't leave Sydney until 5:45pm Our plan at the moment is to get train / princess shuttle bus to the airport, drop our bags off (check in?), then go from the airport to somewhere for shopping / sightseeing. Is there any mall / shopping centre close-ish to the Airport? could we go to Birkenhead point factory shops from the Airport? or is there anywhere else we could easily get to from the Airport? any advice would be appreciated

On our first (and to date only) cruise we just took a large suitcase each... I had a backpack to take on the plane. We had 1 night in a hotel Pre cruise, 13 night cruise and 2 nights in a hotel post cruise. Whet I did though was put a small carry on suitcase in my main case, so on the last night of the cruise I kept that out with my clothes..etc.. for the next day. We will probably do something similar in December on our next cruise (from Sydney)

I prefer the actual menus too... and if the menus on Crown Princess are anything like what you've been posting then we are in for a treat in December! some of those dishes are making me hungry!

I remember getting advice on here for everything, when we did our first cruise (2018) One lady said her and her sister went on a 7 day cruise to the Caribbean and took 34 pairs of shoes between them! I think I took 4 pairs on our cruise....