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2 minutes ago, arxcards said:

Ahh, but they call it French Champagne, and serve it in a plastic cup. The tour is pretty much the Tchou Tchou train route. Much cheaper to go to the Casino for some camembert, a baguette and a bottle of French plonk, then book the train from the cruise terminal market.

When they said wine and cheese ,I thought New Caledonia is tropical.

I don’t think there’s wineries or cheese made in the tropics.

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On 11/19/2022 at 1:24 PM, geoff2802 said:

Yep. We also spent a few days in Palm Springs before the first cruise  Very nice.
 

How did you get to San Pedro?

Car hire for a couple of days and drop it in San Pedro ,looks like the best option .
Taxi ,Uber or shuttle looks about $80US to the airport .

 

It looks like Anthem finishes in South Hampton early October 2024 and nobody knows where it’s going.
 

 

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8 minutes ago, Chiliburn said:

How did you get to San Pedro?

Car hire for a couple of days and drop it in San Pedro ,looks like the best option .
Taxi ,Uber or shuttle looks about $80US to the airport .

 

It looks like Anthem finishes in South Hampton early October 2024 and nobody knows where it’s going.
 

 

We rented a car from Avis LAX and drove to Palm Springs a few days before the cruise.   On embarkation day we drove back and dropped the car at their depot in downtown Long Beach.  Taxi from there to the pier was about USD 25 with tip.  
We also hired a car from Long Beach on debarkation day and had a drive along the coast, lunch at Malibu on the pier and then dropped the car back at LAX before the evening flight home.  All worked well.   

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2 minutes ago, geoff2802 said:

We rented a car from Avis LAX and drove to Palm Springs a few days before the cruise.   On embarkation day we drove back and dropped the car at their depot in downtown Long Beach.  Taxi from there to the pier was about USD 25 with tip.  
We also hired a car from Long Beach on debarkation day and had a drive along the coast, lunch at Malibu on the pier and then dropped the car back at LAX before the evening flight home.  All worked well.   

I might even fly into or out of long beach to where ever ,when I get over there.

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19 minutes ago, geoff2802 said:

It’s gotta be better than LAX 😉

I haven’t be outside LAX for a while but I have heard its the worst in the world.

Looks like American and delta service Long Beach. None stop to Pheonix and Salt lake for $150 . Then on to where ever.

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“Discovery Class” is apparently the project name for the new ships around Voyager Class size.

2026 is when Ovation will enter dry dock according to the captain.This will be done in a port depending where the ship is based at the time. LOL

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1 minute ago, Chiliburn said:

I haven’t be outside LAX for a while but I have heard its the worst in the world.

Looks like American and delta service Long Beach. None stop to Pheonix and Salt lake for $150 . Then on to where ever.

Southwest also service LGB.  It's cattle class but provides another option and they're usually cheap.  They have nonstop flights to Austin, TX if you want some excellent BBQ and TexMex.  😀

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44 minutes ago, springaussie said:

“Discovery Class” is apparently the project name for the new ships around Voyager Class size.

2026 is when Ovation will enter dry dock according to the captain.This will be done in a port depending where the ship is based at the time. LOL

Discovery class ,very interesting.

I quizzed the boffins  on the blog about a smaller ship ,they seem to think I had a mental issue.

As they calculate,big ships cost less to operate per passenger and Royal being a mass market brand will never build smaller ships.
Leave that to Celebrity .

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23 minutes ago, Chiliburn said:

Discovery class ,very interesting.

I quizzed the boffins  on the blog about a smaller ship ,they seem to think I had a mental issue.

As they calculate,big ships cost less to operate per passenger and Royal being a mass market brand will never build smaller ships.
Leave that to Celebrity .

 

10 minutes ago, fairywren said:

Captain’s corner this morning confirmed the Discovery class will be around the size of Voyager. 

 

Perhaps they will use the same hull and superstructure as Edge class - they're about 130kt.  Of course the facilities, activities and interiors would differ.   

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21 minutes ago, geoff2802 said:

 

 

Perhaps they will use the same hull and superstructure as Edge class - they're about 130kt.  Of course the facilities, activities and interiors would differ.   

I believe they need a ship just smaller enough to get through the Panama that can get to Alaska ,do the World cruises and maybe smaller ports like Tampa,New Orleans,Washington DC .

 

Vision,Radiance and even voyager class are getting to 20 years or more and will become not viable. It won’t be long before they start to go.

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Chiliburn said:

I believe they need a ship just smaller enough to get through the Panama that can get to Alaska ,do the World cruises and maybe smaller ports like Tampa,New Orleans,Washington DC .

 

Vision,Radiance and even voyager class are getting to 20 years or more and will become not viable. It won’t be long before they start to go.

 

 

Panama Canal is no longer a restriction, but size certainly matters in some of the smaller US ports.

 

Vision class at 25 yrs+ is even old by Aussie standards. Even 2/3 rds of P&O's ships are newer. I thought Rhapsody was a nice ship - 14 years ago.

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2 minutes ago, arxcards said:

Panama Canal is no longer a restriction, but size certainly matters in some of the smaller US ports.

 

Vision class at 25 yrs+ is even old by Aussie standards. Even 2/3 rds of P&O's ships are newer. I thought Rhapsody was a nice ship - 14 years ago.

Voyager class is to wide for Panama because of the overhangs not the water line.
 

Yep ,old ships are like old cars,just to much maintenance ,to much fuel.

And China is starting to build cruise ships for next to nothing but then you get what you pay for.

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46 minutes ago, Chiliburn said:

Crazy check in on Ovation,right back to the station.

It helps to drop Graham’s name .

Push all the suites a side we have a CC member,even @Chiliburn

 

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Having people you know working in the terminal is always a plus, but all my connections are doing the Carnival brands these days.

 

A frustrating day for everyone, or nearly everyone.

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37 minutes ago, NSWP said:

3000 pax must have arrived at once. People must have lined up for hours. Not good enough.

It was really unavoidable and never intentional.There was a problem with ABF clearance  ( don't know the detail ) which delayed debark by a couple of hours which sadly had the inevitable knock on affect on embark and caused the unacceptable lines. Having said that we still had almost everybody on board by about 5 pm which isn't that much later than  normal. No ABF obviously helped as it was a “ local” cruise. The Majestic tomorrow has a delayed boarding of three hours……..the times we live in I guess.

 

 

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We were in transit. Even though it was difficult for some, we thought Royal  and of course their shore staff handled it very well for us. I did see Graeme too inside the ship at the check in with card, but didn’t talk.😷

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