Calabazar

We are on a 30 day cruise soon with the Plus package, which would give us each only 2 casual dining meals. I’m sure it would have been sold in segments (it’s a trans Pacific) but how do I find out? It seems crazy to me that it’s only 2 per cruise - we have 2 x 7 day B2Bs next year that would give us 4 meals in 14 days compared to 2 meals in 30 days. I know we won’t starve but we prefer the Alfredo’s pizza to the Lido pizza, so having the option to eat more meals there would be nice.

We’ve been lucky to be offered move over deals twice, both pre Covid. First was a cruise from Adelaide to Singapore, where we gave up our balcony cabin for an inside cabin of our choice on the same voyage, in return for a refund of our cruise fare as refundable OBC and specialty dining. Second time was Sydney to NZ return, where we had to give up that particular cruise completely and choose another in return for our cruise fare as refundable OBC and an upgrade from a standard balcony to a deluxe aft balcony. We elected to take up both offers as they worked for us and thanks to the advice from fellow CCers, I knew to get right back to them and grab them straight away!

I cruised with my 8 year old granddaughter in December, albeit in Australia. I had a letter from her mother (my daughter) just in case but at no stage was I asked to produce any documentation for her. It may have helped that we had the same surname but no one ever checked our relationship or whether she had permission to travel without a parent.

We had a similar situation recently and it turned out that we unknowingly had a transaction limit on our credit card, which prevented us paying the balance online. The solution was to pay via BPAY.

As someone who has suffered with seasickness on almost every cruise I’ve been on, the only medication (over the counter or prescribed by my doctor) that has worked for me is SeaLegs, available from pharmacies in NZ but unfortunately not Australia.