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Do you remover which nights the shows were on. Doing cruise on jade Oct with similar itinerary. 

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Thank you Bob.

3 weeks before I cruise Alaska for the first time, too excited.

Great info so far. Just wondering if the Premium coffees include coffees ordered in the MDR for breakfast and After dinner. I enjoy a good espresso at these times, but don't want to have to go to the speciality coffee shop.

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It seems that he was promoted to CD for this contract. He probably was a member of the activities staff or the activities manager onboard rhapsody until now (which means that he worked with Graham, who is one of RCIs very best CDs)

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Sailing Rhapsody in September, any options of Christopher Hopkins as a cruise director? What ships has he been on?

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Hope there is No replacement for Graham Seymore on rhapsody, and he has to do the final week of rhapsody sailing in Alaska, it would make our cruise!

But I'm sure who ever takes over will be great too.

We had a great day in Pattaya with a small group of folks from our roll call (actually 3 van loads ended up booking with the tour operator that I found). We went to Nong Nooch Gardens, had lunch there, short stop at Pattaya floating market, up to the hilltop to see the giant Buddha, then finished day at Sanctuary of Truth. All organized through Mike at http://www.bangkokasiatravel.com/?lang=en The second day we took the ship tour to the Sri Racha Tiger Zoo...horrible place where the tigers are caged and they put on circus acts the type that are banned in North America.

So wish I had have found this page/ topic before you visited Pattaya. Glad the day trip was enjoyable.

I agree totally about the tiger zoo, we were on Voyager March 2013, and took the tour to the zoo, could not believe how disgusting this place was, we even saw dead animals in cages. We complained to the cruise staff, and advised them to send a staff member there to check it out.

Other than been sad for the animals, I was very concerned for the hygiene of myself and fellow cruise guest, one of the first things we were offered was to feed the tigers meat off a stick, dangling it over the cage. You could see the juices of the meat (rotten) all over the stick where people than held it. There was little to none hand washing areas, (who would know the quality of the water)

We handed money over to hold a baby tiger before we saw the condition of the poor thing. Never again.

Worse is can't believe RCI are still running tours there, nobody on our tour was impressed, with many guest walking out of the show and waiting at the bus.

Erewhon and zorrosuncle

The information Aus Traveller has given is excellent.

I live in Darwin. It is very easy to find the Hop on hop off bus. I would just walk up to the information centre at the top of town. At the moment there is a ticket booth on the corner outside the info centre, you can't miss it.

Darwin city centre is not very big, so a walk around town is very doable.

I would also recommend the military museum if you are interested in War history. The park land (East point) where the military museum is, is also a lovely, place to walk with great view over the ocean. Take plenty of water.

The Darwin museum is also a good place to visit, has a cafe for refreshments.

I will check back here soon to see if I can be of assistance.

Rhonda.

Thank you for the replies.

Are princess line drinks more expensive than some of the USA cruise lines that cruise out of Australian waters?

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Just wondering if accounts are settled in USD or AUd. I don't want to use credit card.

First cruise on princess.

To be fair there are differences, e.g. they change the price in Aus waters to remove the gratuities separately and make them inclusive.

 

Similarly some of the drinks packages then have the thresholds adjusted because the list price is different.

I cruised march 2013 with rci in Australia, and drinks menus were same as people had posted on forum from USA cruise. The drinks package was same price on board as online. and would have to agree with fish taco.

The drinks package was great if you like a few drinks, especially cocktails. We cruised when weather was warm with lots of sea day, as yes we got our money's worth, but seriously reconsidering the package for Alaska next year. Just don't think I can drink 9 frozen cocktails in a cold climate.