Star to Australia in January.

[millymaid]

Can anyone help us planning for this cruise. Really don't know what to expect.:)

[Bocadude85]

We did a 10 day Australia cruise with Royal Caribbean a few years back and spent a week in New Zealand prior to the cruise. What kind of information are you looking for?

[Sauer-kraut]

Are you doing a trans-Pacific?

 

Look for flying fish, porpoise and LOTS of sea days. Check the night sky for the Southern Cross, make sure you're ready for your baptism by King Neptune, and enjoy yourselves!!

 

My Granny took me in 1974 to Fiji on a container ship, 2 weeks of sea days after leaving Long Beach. Spent 2 weeks in Fiji and a week in Hawaii as a break between flying from Nadi to Chicago. I will always remember that trip!

[Pope Francis]

Can anyone help us planning for this cruise. Really don't know what to expect.:)

 

The Star is not in Australia in Jan 2017 so which cruise are you talking about??? The Star docks in Sydney on Feb 6 2017...

[millymaid]

Yes I did mean that one.:)

[GUT2407]

The Star is not in Australia in Jan 2017 so which cruise are you talking about??? The Star docks in Sydney on Feb 6 2017...

 

Well it would head here in January. Can't get here from pretty much anywhere in 6 days.

[4774Papa]

We did Australia and Bali on Celebrity Solstice in 2013, since NCL was not in Australia then.

 

Loved Australia. We spend three days in Perth pre-cruise and five days post-cruise in Sydney.

 

Here is my review:

http://www.cruisecritic.com/memberreviews/memberreview.cfm?EntryID=216863

[Port Power]

Can anyone help us planning for this cruise. Really don't know what to expect.:)

 

Join the thread for your actual cruise and you will find lots of information.

[casofilia]

The Star is not in Australia in Jan 2017 so which cruise are you talking about??? The Star docks in Sydney on Feb 6 2017...

 

It actually arrives in Darwin before the end of January.

 

Mike

[casofilia]

Heat 30C+; possibly extreme heat 35C+; but that depends on what you are used to.

On land; depending on where you visit; Flies and more flies.

Wherever you are there is an expectation that you will drink Fosters and/or Bundaberg Rum.

And, of course; Australians!!!

 

Mike the Kiwi

[blizzardboy]

Can anyone help us planning for this cruise. Really don't know what to expect.:)

 

We are looking at a later cruise on the Star's 2017 Aussie/Asian tour, 18-day Singapore-Dubai Mar 9, but wanting to do it in 2018. When talking to a NCL senior cruise consultant, he said the 2017 version was a new cruise for the Star so he didn't have feedback for us, but I'm not sure if he meant the whole Jan-Mar tour, or just the one we were discussing.

[casofilia]

We are looking at a later cruise on the Star's 2017 Aussie/Asian tour, 18-day Singapore-Dubai Mar 9, but wanting to do it in 2018. When talking to a NCL senior cruise consultant, he said the 2017 version was a new cruise for the Star so he didn't have feedback for us, but I'm not sure if he meant the whole Jan-Mar tour, or just the one we were discussing.

 

The whole tour from Rome back to Venice via Dubai; Singapore; Hong Kong; New Zealand and Australia is new starting later this year so don't expect anything for 2018/19 till much later in 2017 or even till 2018. I guess they will have to "see how it goes" before any discussion of another cruise like this one takes place.

 

Mike

[blizzardboy]

The whole tour from Rome back to Venice via Dubai; Singapore; Hong Kong; New Zealand and Australia is new starting later this year so don't expect anything for 2018/19 till much later in 2017 or even till 2018. I guess they will have to "see how it goes" before any discussion of another cruise like this one takes place.

 

Mike

 

Thanks Mike. I was hoping my post would bring about some clarification. I set up an alert on another site to advise me if/when they schedule another sailing like 2017's, namely March, 2018.