lissie

Per person I believe. And no the intranet wouildn't count as internet time - though I'm not sure you can do much with it except check your account

NA? North America? Yes we leave next week to pick up a cruise out of San Francisco which will go to Europe

Hmm duh yes - my close by cruises are to the Pacific Islands or Australia -very familiar with both -don't need to go again. And also all the cruisers are from the same country as me - I'd much rather meet non-Australians/Kiwis - particularly after the lockdowns

Next cruise we start on our trip to SF from Wellington, NZ - we could fly direct - its a miserable 14 hours out of Auckland plus another hour to Auckland and stuffing around in transit. Instead we are taking 10 days via Hawaii and SF. That cruise will end in Barcelona - where we spend 6 weeks in Europe. Then we get back on the ship in Barcelona and sale to Singapore. The flight back from Singapore is only about 8 hours to Australia and then another 3.5 hours across the ditch (Tasman Sea) to Wellington. This is a trip of over 2 years of lockdowns in the making - I just kept adding stuff to it LOL. In September Air NZ will start flying Auckland - NYC direct - its 18/19 hours. Now we have the time (my partner's retired - I run my own business)- we would always rather take the scenic route and break up long flights.

There's a train to Florence via Pisa from Citivecchia (not Roma) - 4 hours - I'd do an overnight in Florence and return the next day

Trying to work out whether there is anything to see at this port or whether a tour is worthwhile. Iknow we could go to the beach - but we have other beach stops on this cruise - more interested in wildlife and the jungle.

I thought I'd update my close contact's address details on my cunard. I know it didn't work a few years ago - I guessed it would be fine now. Yeah, nah. 2 different browsers using updated windows machine. Tried to check the current price of our booked cruises. Nothing - no cruises available to any destination on en-au version of the website. I have a background of 10 years in developing websites for clients - I'd be embarassed if cunard.com was one of mine!

I have just tested positive for Covid - I only tested as we returned to NZ today from Fiji and self-testing is required at the border. Tomorrow I'll arrange a PCR test which is the requirement here (so they can track variants I think). According the CDC I can now use a letter from my doctor to avoid testing when we fly to the USA in July. I'm wondering if the same thing will work for Cunard? Has anyone had any experience with that?