Age demographic on Marina - South Pacific Cruise

[stefmo]

Can someone tell me the age demographic of the cruisers? My husband and I are in our early 40's and considering a cruise with the Marina from Auckland to Papeete in March 2016.

 

We have sailed with Oceania Marina before in the Caribbean and Transatlantic, and the ship had zero nightlife. By 11pm, the ship was asleep.

 

I was just wondering. Will this be the same in the South Pacific, or is there a difference because this itinerary is so special, and it attracts a bit younger crowd from maybe New Zealand or Australia ?

[stromer]

I am on the cruise you are thinking about and this will be my first Oceania cruise. I have enrolled in the cruise roll call and have found that most of the people seem to be interested in adventure since it is a unique cruise. Go to the roll call and see what you can determine from their posts.

Rick

[RJB]

Can someone tell me the age demographic of the cruisers? My husband and I are in our early 40's and considering a cruise with the Marina from Auckland to Papeete in March 2016.

 

We have sailed with Oceania Marina before in the Caribbean and Transatlantic, and the ship had zero nightlife. By 11pm, the ship was asleep.

 

I was just wondering. Will this be the same in the South Pacific, or is there a difference because this itinerary is so special, and it attracts a bit younger crowd from maybe New Zealand or Australia ?

 

We took this trip 2 years ago (Papeete to Sydney) and it was just about you said. Very little nightlife. Most are up early and off the ship pretty quickly. But it was a wonderful trip and we would like to do it again.

[no fuss travel]

When we did this cruise, the ages varied. We had a couple of teenagers who very much enjoyed the cruise all the way up to people in their 80's. There were several people in their late 30's, early 40's as well, but not as many of them as there was of people 50 and up.

[Hawaiidan]

Can someone tell me the age demographic of the cruisers? My husband and I are in our early 40's and considering a cruise with the Marina from Auckland to Papeete in March 2016.

 

We have sailed with Oceania Marina before in the Caribbean and Transatlantic, and the ship had zero nightlife. By 11pm, the ship was asleep.

 

I was just wondering. Will this be the same in the South Pacific, or is there a difference because this itinerary is so special, and it attracts a bit younger crowd from maybe New Zealand or Australia ?

 

The average would be about 65, a low of 50 andhigh of 89

The ship will be asleep by 10.....earlier as its rest up for the next port. Too the true entertainment becomes dining, cocktail a little trivia..after dinner and enjoying your cabin The horizon lounge will have come good music but only about 50 or so passengers will be attending and in quiet little groups

 

Honestly, the Carribe is a hot ticket ---party party

 

In the south pacific and Asia because of time involved, the length of cruise,, the time of year, and the high cost$ . It sorts out most who have not retired as few have the time and money to make these long expensive trips

Too Oceania is a entertain yourself line.... with the finest dining at sea...and very subtile low key atmosphere... That's who likes it.....

[RJB]

The average would be about 65, a low of 50 andhigh of 89

The ship will be asleep by 10.....earlier as its rest up for the next port. Too the true entertainment becomes dining, cocktail a little trivia..after dinner and enjoying your cabin The horizon lounge will have come good music but only about 50 or so passengers will be attending and in quiet little groups

 

Honestly, the Carribe is a hot ticket ---party party

 

In the south pacific and Asia because of time involved, the length of cruise,, the time of year, and the high cost$ . It sorts out most who have not retired as few have the time and money to make these long expensive trips

Too Oceania is a entertain yourself line.... with the finest dining at sea...and very subtile low key atmosphere... That's who likes it.....

 

Sounds just about right. Will let you know about how much partying there will be in the Caribe after we come back in Feb. Not very much on Crystal or Silver Sea when we did those.

[roothy123]

I'm about to head out to the South Pacific soon on Marina, and I'm an old person (early sixties) who goes to bed about midnight when cruising. However, the South Pacific itinerary is a little different, since it has quite a lot of sea days due to the long distances the ship has to travel to get around that vast area. I'm thinking there will probably be a little more activity at night than normal, since people will be sleeping in more, except perhaps on days when we have port calls. There also might be a few younger folks as well, since the South Pacific itineraries offer more water sports than most cruises, and may attract some younger people as a result - especially if they dive or snorkel. I cruise mostly for what I'm going to see, however - and with Easter Island and other fabulous places on the itinerary, I really don't care if there's much nightlife or not. If necessary, I just go google something or watch TV or read up about the next day's port until I'm sleepy. I'm easy to entertain.

 

I disagree that everyone's in bed on Oceania ships by 10. Some are, but others are in the casino, some are in the bars, and some are in the theater watching the show. A few are finishing up late dinner. Some are just relaxing in their rooms. Wherever they choose to be is fine with me.

 

From our Roll Call, I can't tell the ages of the passengers I'll be cruising with in French Polynesia and Easter Island, but I'm guessing it's more or less the same as on any other Oceania cruise. As for where they come from, there aren't very many Europeans who have found our Roll Call (at least not compared to the number on my cruise out of Lisbon last year - although of course, the number of people on the Roll Call is small compared to number of people on the cruise). A good number of Canadians signed up on the Roll Call, especially from Vancouver. I guess they want to escape the cold weather, which makes sense to me! Of course, there are a lot of Americans, including a lot of Californians.

 

We did two of Oceania's Caribbean cruises (loved Mayan Mystique) and the demographic wasn't all that different from the European and South American cruises I've taken on O.

[Hawaiidan]

Because of the extreme distance, air, and time envolved just to get there you wont find many under 60. On my cruise, PPT to Lima there were 9 people out of 1200 who were into water sports... water sport folks fly for a week package to Tahiti,,,they can afford the 3 weeks the cruise will take ( counting air travel) Too the co$t is a factor...HAL and Princess and Celeb all do this cruise area for about 30% less on their mega 2500+ ships... Those attract younger set but are nickel dime.

 

South america carribe and Med are all a snap to get to...PPT only has 2 to 3 flights a day from the US... normaly just 1 a day and only 2 airlines Air France and Tahiti Nui......

 

Good luck, but I have found it to be very quiet...every time

[Travelcat2]

I agree that it is dependent upon length of itinerary, time of the year, etc. You will see more families, children and younger adults during the summer and school breaks. The youngest demographic we have seen is on Med. itineraries in the summer (shorter ones).

 

In terms of going to sleep early, even young adults get tired on port intensive cruises - getting up super early - being very active all day -- finishing dinner late and doing it again the next day. While we rarely go to bed before midnight at home, we are in bed at 10:00 p.m. many times when we are on a ship (maybe it is the sea air plus the activity?)

[Paulchili]

If you are interested in more active night life and younger clientele with Aussies & Kiwis, you should do South Pacific with one on Australian based cruise lines.

They are very likely to be more lively with a party atmosphere but you would not have the advantages of Oceania (whatever they are).

You can have one or the other but usually not both :)