New RCL ship for Sydney? Radiance now in Brisbane

[MicCanberra]

Royal Caribbean International has announced Serenade of the Seas – the younger sister to Radiance of the Seas - will sail from Sydney’s Overseas Passenger Terminal for the first time from October 2020 to April 2021.

 

 

[Rassa]

Received the email and saw it on FB now we just need the itineraries.   Princess and RCCL - both companies saying they are increasing the number of CRUISE SHIPS in our regions.   Great more choices.   Celebrity has already announced Celebrity Edge will also be in our region - but I am not sure the extra cost is worth it.

[The_Big_M]

Still have to wait two weeks for those.

[Chiliburn]

Hope they do a few overnights,Hobart,Noumea and maybe radiance will do PNG?

[MicCanberra]

2 hours ago, Rassa said:

Received the email and saw it on FB now we just need the itineraries.   Princess and RCCL - both companies saying they are increasing the number of CRUISE SHIPS in our regions.   Great more choices.   Celebrity has already announced Celebrity Edge will also be in our region - but I am not sure the extra cost is worth it.

The Edge seems very overpriced at the moment. I do hope the prices settle, then I can get onto her.

[DDG 41]

6 hours ago, crewzerguy said:

I thought Seranade may get the slot given its last position for any sale has it in Hawaii, whilst great news that Brisbane has been given Radiance its somewhat a little disappointing Sydney is getting back the same class of ship. The news could be made better if it was a full year round deployment as I believe theres capacity there to compete with Carnival and P&O duting the winter, any way lets see what the official story is and just be greatful we gained another ship (well kind of as we lost Explorer in Sydney)

They know they can base it year round. They won't because it can sail fuller and make more money for them somewhere else.

[Rassa]

1 hour ago, MicCanberra said:

The Edge seems very overpriced at the moment. I do hope the prices settle, then I can get onto her.

 

I agree but I think cruise prices tend to go up and not down, except the odd time when a cruise for some reason is not selling well (may-be due to high prices).  I hope you are right and the price settles.

[MicCanberra]

12 minutes ago, DDG 41 said:

They know they can base it year round. They won't because it can sail fuller and make more money for them somewhere else.

Exactly, unfortunately we have to take what we can get.

[GUT2407]

Interesting development.

[The_Big_M]

6 hours ago, DDG 41 said:

They know they can base it year round. They won't because it can sail fuller and make more money for them somewhere else.

 

Agreed, from their perspective, it's all about the business.

[GUT2407]

I wonder if it will change the demographics on any ships, I mean until recently if sailing Australia Sydney was your sole choice now more ships based in Mali, Bris, and even ADL, will it change much I wonder.

[MicCanberra]

Perhaps, most likely just allowing many more new cruisers into the market at the higher prices.

[cheznandy]

So excited to have all these new ships, especially sailing from Brisbane.

Lets hope they give us some exciting new itineraries to go with them all.

A little more Tahiti, Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands, Norfolk.

[GUT2407]

3 minutes ago, cheznandy said:

So excited to have all these new ships, especially sailing from Brisbane.

Lets hope they give us some exciting new itineraries to go with them all.

A little more Tahiti, Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands, Norfolk.

Yeah more itineraries would be nice, but bet Mrs G will still opt for Tassie.

[cheznandy]

42 minutes ago, GUT2407 said:

Yeah more itineraries would be nice, but bet Mrs G will still opt for Tassie.

Gut, would you have to drive up to Brissy? as I recall Mrs Gut cannot fly.

Still from Newy not a bad drive anymore with all the bypasses, boring but quicker haha!

 

We are off for another week in Surfers, seems to be a yearly thing now one of our grandsons is 7yrs and love Movieworld!

Port to Surfers is only about 5 1/2 hours drive for us with all the by passes, you could have a stop over halfway at Coffs😄

Edited March 21, 2019 by cheznandy

[GUT2407]

Yeah have to drive, so it’d add a week to the holiday, just not up to doing it in a day anymore, probably go New England one way Pacific the other stop a day or two on the way.

 

sounds like fun visiting the Wally Worlds as I call them, had a few great visits to them when the kids were younger.

[MicCanberra]

2 hours ago, cheznandy said:

So excited to have all these new ships, especially sailing from Brisbane.

Lets hope they give us some exciting new itineraries to go with them all.

A little more Tahiti, Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands, Norfolk.

That would be great, Tahiti may be a bit far but the others are doable in a two week cruise.

[CupcakeSusie]

My initial reaction to this news is disappointment. I hope Serenade is better than I’ve read. 

[MicCanberra]

What have you read that makes it so bad? Are the issues to do with the ship or the crew?

[Jandex]

I believe Radiance is undergoing a refurbishment prior to heading to Brisbane. 

Has anyone heard of similar plans for Serenade before heading to Sydney? 

[Chiliburn]

1 hour ago, Jandex said:

I believe Radiance is undergoing a refurbishment prior to heading to Brisbane. 

Has anyone heard of similar plans for Serenade before heading to Sydney? 

I vaguely remember someone saying radiance,after Alaska it’s going straight to Singapore for a facelift then onto Brisbane.

 

Edited March 22, 2019 by Chiliburn

[mr walker]

34 minutes ago, Chiliburn said:

I vaguely remember someone saying radiance,after Alaska it’s going straight to Singapore for a facelift then onto Brisbane.

 

Yes, we learned of this (Singapore refurb after Alaska), and, as we love Radiance, and, at that time, had just got off her, we had a vague 'plan' to travel to Singapore & bring her back home to Sydney in Oct 2020. Of course we now know she will be going to Brisvegas instead. New plan required 🙂

 

[MicCanberra]

56 minutes ago, mr walker said:

Yes, we learned of this (Singapore refurb after Alaska), and, as we love Radiance, and, at that time, had just got off her, we had a vague 'plan' to travel to Singapore & bring her back home to Sydney in Oct 2020. Of course we now know she will be going to Brisvegas instead. New plan required 🙂

 

It is an easy flight from Brissie

[cheznandy]

1 hour ago, mr walker said:

Yes, we learned of this (Singapore refurb after Alaska), and, as we love Radiance, and, at that time, had just got off her, we had a vague 'plan' to travel to Singapore & bring her back home to Sydney in Oct 2020. Of course we now know she will be going to Brisvegas instead. New plan required 🙂

 

Mmm....Mr Walker, a good plan. The Alaska to Singapore would be a good one too!

We are cruising the Splendor Singapore to Sydney later this year to it's new home, and have booked the Carnival Spirit Hawaii to Sydney the following year to its new home Brisbane, but may have to rethink the last one when we see all these new repositioning itineraries.

Edited March 22, 2019 by cheznandy

[Chiliburn]

2 hours ago, cheznandy said:

Mmm....Mr Walker, a good plan. The Alaska to Singapore would be a good one too!

We are cruising the Splendor Singapore to Sydney later this year to it's new home, and have booked the Carnival Spirit Hawaii to Sydney the following year to its new home Brisbane, but may have to rethink the last one when we see all these new repositioning itineraries.

Somewhere in my alcoholic hase I recall .

 Alaska to Singapore May only have contractors and no passengers 

But I have been wrong before.