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1 hour ago, OzKiwiJJ said:

Our loyalty number is the same on Princess, Carnival, and Cunard. We haven't cruised P&O.

My Princess and p&o number is different to Carnival 

20 minutes ago, Aus Traveller said:

Thanks. I tried the link but got the same answer as I did several months ago - "Sorry we are unable to find your VIFP number". Maybe I will have to email or phone and give them the details. The reason I want to follow up on this is because we have a P&O cruise booked for May next year. According to today's announcement, it will be a Carnival cruise. Although I don't think it will make much difference during the cruise, I prefer to have my cruising history rather than starting out as a newbie.

 

P.S. I tried the Carnival site with my husband's details and, Lo and Behold! I have a number. I will still follow it through with Carnival.

Carnival have a different number from Princess and p&o

15 minutes ago, windsor26 said:

Not unless that use AUD  and get rid of tips

Royal doesn’t have gratuities on their AU cruises but still have US currency onboard 

9 minutes ago, MicCanberra said:

Too many cabins being held without purchase I suppose. A 24 hour hold should be enough.

Can’t even do a 24 hour hold 

5 minutes ago, resordanis said:

Need to ring them Bob, they can give you up to 10 days.

Hi Cheryle I was just having a look and someone else asked the question on FB , normally it was on the booking and saves you ringing up

Just checked out a couple of Princess cruises and it looks like you don’t get a chance to do a 3 day hold

is this something new or just a glitch 

17 minutes ago, Elorac123 said:

Yes,thinking I will just get a five year one now  will have to give it some thought Unfortunately I am not getting any younger 🤣🤣

Cheers Carole 

5 years if your over 75 or children 

It’s been posted on FB that the current p&o cruise Adventure in the area has Noumea and Lifou cancelled, they are going to Vila tomorrow and not sure after that 

It’s been reported that the man that fell overboard lost $9000 in the casino 

if you google it you can read the story

40 minutes ago, Yaya_in_Oz said:

Same for me on my app, so I think I'll pass. I'll just check e-mails in port and read the latest headlines from back here. Just like the old days.

 

Does anyone know how much a single day costs? I'll need the last day and if anything comes up.

Someone posted on the Princess FB page it’s $20 daily for elites 

1 hour ago, Muffinz said:

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

The cruise line should have a debark tour for airport passengers and give you a tour of Sydney and then drop you off at the airport 

if you don’t want the tour there’s closer places in Sydney to store your luggage for a few hours 

13 minutes ago, MicCanberra said:

Do it, do it now before they realise 

Mic all done 

1 hour ago, Aus Traveller said:

I felt that both prices you were quoted were wrong. The first one seems too high and the second one too low. I agree with 'resordanis' - book it for the 15 day cruise.

 

On a separate phone call enquire again about the price for the short cruise. You might be quoted a lower amount. 🙂

I’m not going to get the wifi for the 4 day cruise as we have stops in Newcastle and Eden but I got the good price for the 15 day one, $5 a day 

20 minutes ago, resordanis said:

Bob, if you have a 15 day cruise and that is the price, book now. There have been a few errors in the app on this cruise….one being two specialty dinners for $78, so take it what you can!

Thanks Cheryle with the 15 day cruise it works out at approx $5 a day 

nice bargain 

Just now, MicCanberra said:

It would seem so. 

Note that if you have the Princess Plus package you get wifi with that.

No I’m on the standard fare 

I’ve lost track of the wifi prices for elites, I have a 4 day cruise and the price is $77.52 with 50% off

i have a 15 day cruise and the price is the same $77.52 going by the app for both cruises so I think the 15 day cruise is a glitch in the system 

Just had a look at the itineraries of the Voyager and Anthem and not really impressed with the pricing and they’ve even put the deposit up to $250 per person over 6 nights 

10 minutes ago, Sparrow3131 said:

If you get the standard fare it’s only $1998

10 minutes ago, Yaya_in_Oz said:

Where do you get this info?Do you get an alert or are you always checking for sales?

 

It was posted on FB by one of the online TA’s 

They just posted on the Princess site 19days on the Coral to South Africa for the start of the WC in a balcony for $1900 

33 minutes ago, Ozwoody said:

I know I keep saying this,,,,, BUT why is there 3 princess cruises out of Sydney to Fiji in 2025, yet not even 1 from Brisbane?????

I know there is 1 Fiji cruise out of Brisbane by P&O, but what is Princess thinking that Brisbane only wants the same old ports, be great to have at least one more option than the same old same old.🤬

Princess is having one cruise to PNG in 2 years time but p&o go there quite a bit Brisbane and it would be nice if Royal can mix up the cruises a bit and go different ports instead of the same ones, South Pacific or Cairns 

3 hours ago, Chiliburn said:

 

This has been posted on FB but it’s not showing online and where can you see those cruises 

Not sure if it’s a rumour but it was posted on FB the Adventure is coming to OZ for the 2025-26 season 

2 hours ago, ceeceeDee said:

Good to hear! Also fabulous to have a post NOT bagging the much maligned P&O.🤣

Nothing wrong with p&o on this cruise and they did an excellent job

1 hour ago, sewgood said:

Thanks for letting us know about your experience, I have wondered about these theme cruises for a while and wouldn't mind doing an Elvis one with my mother-in-law as she should enjoy it.

I did see an Elvis performance on the old Sun Princess years ago and it was very good but I haven't come across one since then.

The Pacific Adventure is doing one from Sydney 4 night cruise to Morten island 10/3/25 

as I said p&o do it well and with disembarking today they started about 6.30am and they had everyone just about off just after 8.30am 

I did a b2b with a 3 day comedy cruise followed by a 4 day Elvis cruise and if you do a b2b they put an anchor on your new cruise card so you don’t have to get a tender ticket for going ashore