Voyager of the Seas Picture Review Dec 2012 Australia & New Zealand Cruise

[Iluvcruising2]

Bye-bye Auckland.

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Dinner menu. There was Kangeroo!

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Seafood salad.

Creamed wild mushrooms in puff pastry.

Eggplant….. Tartare.

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This was the kangaroo. I found it too ‘gamey’ for my liking, though it was very well marinated.

The pasta.

Pan-Fried Giant Squid

The Thai style chicken

[gambee's_mom]

She was making new snow!

 

:)Thank you for the review and beautiful pictures. I would love to be there seeing the penguins.

 

Happy New Year. Happy Cruising to everyone!!! ;):o:):cool:

[Iluvcruising2]

Dessert menu

Dessert Sampler

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Ship was well on our way back to Sydney.

[Iluvcruising2]

:)Thank you for the review and beautiful pictures. I would love to be there seeing the penguins.

 

Happy New Year. Happy Cruising to everyone!!! ;):o:):cool:

 

Glad you liked it.

 

Happy New Year!!

[cottagemama]

I have been following your pictorial review as we will be sailing on the Radiance in 2014 on a itinerary. You have given me many ideas for excursions and I have loved seeing your photos. We did a circumnavigation of Australia a few years ago on the Rhapsody and we tried Kangaroo. I did not care for it.

Thank you so much for the time & effort that you have put into this and for sharing with us

:)

Cottagemama

[Iluvcruising2]

I have been following your pictorial review as we will be sailing on the Radiance in 2014 on a itinerary. You have given me many ideas for excursions and I have loved seeing your photos. We did a circumnavigation of Australia a few years ago on the Rhapsody and we tried Kangaroo. I did not care for it.

Thank you so much for the time & effort that you have put into this and for sharing with us

:)

Cottagemama

 

Thanks for your note. Glad that you are liking the review.

 

Happy New Year!

[Iluvcruising2]

Day 12 – sea day.

[cottagemama]

Happy New Year to you too and all the best in 2013

[maggienc17]

Thank you for the review. We are sailing Jan. 27th coming from North Carolina USA. Appreciate the pictures.

[avalon007]

Thank you for the review. We are sailing Jan. 27th coming from North Carolina USA. Appreciate the pictures.

 

 

Hi,

 

Please feel free to join our roll call thread for the VOS 27 Jan cruise to NZ.:)

[Iluvcruising2]

Day 12 morning was our Dreamworks breakfast. You must pre-register for this as seats are limited. 7:45am was the allocated time. A line had already formed. We were seated quite quickly. That morning, we had Po the Panda, Skipper Penguin as well as Fiona (partner of Shrek). Similar to our June cruise, they had 3 characters. You wouldn’t know in advance which of these characters would come out during the Dreamworks breakfast.

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On our way back to Sydney.

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Captain’s Corner this morning, 1030 at La Scala. The place was quite full. The talk started promptly and lasted all the way till noon. There were many good questions. On stage were (from Left) the Chief Engineer, the Environmental Officer, the Captain and the Hotel Director.

 

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Two pictures of the electrical outlets available at the dressing table. Coming from Singapore, our plugs are UK-type. So I have to bring along US adaptors.

 

 

Edited January 1, 2013 by Iluvcruising2

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Dinner menu – Day 12

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Seafood salad

 

 

I can’t remember what this was, but it tasted good.

 

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Crumbed Whiting Filets

 

 

Pasta

 

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Another pasta!

 

 

BLT Salad

 

[goodycruising]

We take one adapter and a power board/strip, which helps charge more than one item. You can also charge many items like phones with usb cables from your laptop. We also take a suction cup pegless clothesline for drying out the smalls we wash regularly in the shower/bath. The clothesline in the shower in a cabin with no bath is very short. The one if you have a bath is a reasonable size.

 

I would like to say that many tours take you away from Tauranga to Rotarua - which is a lovely place - but as you have shown, 1.5 hours each way, but if you go over to the other side of where the wharf is you have Mount Manganui which is a very long beautiful white beach, with heaps of shops and cafes. We have driven the length of the beach right up to Papamoa, and it takes a very long time! If you want a day swimming and sunbaking there is heaps of quiet beach are where there is just homes on the other side of the road.

 

picture of the beach http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w219/goodies63/jan20122072_zps6dd23cd5.jpg

 

We stayed in an apartment once near where the ships stop at Auckland and it is really very close to lots of great restaurants and cafes, museum, shops, ferries. It is a great port to stop at where you can easily catch the cheap local buses to go to things like the seafood market which has heaps of eateries of different types. The Sky Tower is in my opinion quite an uphill walk, and I struggled a bit walking up there. Auckland has some areas in the main city that have very steep streets. Plenty of areas to walk where it is not so bad though. When you leave the ship, I would recommend going for a look to the right side, whereas the natural flow from leaving the ship seems to steer you more to the left.

 

I loved your pics of the penguins, we haven't been to the underwater place, and must do that another time.

[Iluvcruising2]

kjsmith63,

 

Yes, Auckland looks to be a wonderful cruise port to embark/disembark.

 

Anyway, here is a screenshot of your earlier post.

 

[goodycruising]

I joined to be able to post replies on your post! My husband had joined and he was telling me of your story :o)