Live Reports - Cruising on Coral Princess September 2022.

[OzKiwiJJ]

32 minutes ago, Cbtours said:

Wow. So everyone has to stay indoors? I e never seen a medical so wouldn’t know protocol. Do they announce it’s happening and tell you to remain in cabin?

hope the person is okay 🙏🏻

Just those that have cabins on the port side this time, which is presumably the side the helicopter will approach from. Stay off the balcony and keep the balcony door closed.

Plus, of course, no-one is allowed on the upper open decks. It makes sense. If the worst happened and the chopper crashed they don't want passengers getting injured.

 

Luckily the weather has improved. It's been cloudy and rainy most of the day but it's cleared up just in time.

[Cbtours]

39 minutes ago, aussielozzie18 said:

Can I just confirm for boarding Coral Princess in regards to Covid tests, you just need a negative RATS within 24hrs (or PCR 72hrs).  It doesn’t need to be dated or timed? (unlike Carnival Aust - there in no mention of date/time that I can see in the t&cs for Princess Aust). So just a photo of the negative RATS taken on the phone is sufficient? Thanks.  

 

Ok I found what I’d read in the medallion app. Screenshot attached

 

[OzKiwiJJ]

38 minutes ago, Cbtours said:

Wow. So everyone has to stay indoors? I e never seen a medical so wouldn’t know protocol. Do they announce it’s happening and tell you to remain in cabin?

hope the person is okay 🙏🏻

Yes, first we had one announcement that there would be a medi-vac. Then another advising the helicopter was on it's way, crew to flying stations, passengers on the port side stay off the balconies. We should get another announcement once the medi-vac is complete.

[OzKiwiJJ]

41 minutes ago, MMDown Under said:

I guess the Captain was clear with his orders!

Very clear! He sounded very stern. Definitely the voice of command.

Edited September 29, 2022 by OzKiwiJJ

[Cbtours]

Just now, OzKiwiJJ said:

Very clear! He sounded very stern. Definitely the voice of command.

Thats good to know he's in charge and hopefully those disobeying will be caught out.

[OzKiwiJJ]

34 minutes ago, Cbtours said:

Ok I found what I’d read in the medallion app. Screenshot attached

 

We were advised this was required earlier this month. 

 

[Ondine]

Thank goodness for cruise critic friends who keep us informed of changes.  Worth their weight in gold.

[NSWP]

13 minutes ago, OzKiwiJJ said:

Very clear! He sounded very stern. Definitely the voice of command.

Tis all happening Julie.

[arxcards]

Irrelevant info

Edited September 29, 2022 by arxcards

[arxcards]

30 minutes ago, Cbtours said:

Wow. So everyone has to stay indoors? I e never seen a medical so wouldn’t know protocol. Do they announce it’s happening and tell you to remain in cabin?

hope the person is okay 🙏🏻

We have had a couple, with one landing on the helipad on Radiance of the Seas.

 

Anyone on the open decks is rounded up, and directed inside, then they block access. They will usually announce at least one side of the ship to stay off their balconies for safety reasons. 

 

Not every day a ship heads in towards Rockhampton.

[arxcards]

23 minutes ago, OzKiwiJJ said:

We were advised this was required earlier this month. 

 

I stand corrected.

Cruising in 9 days, and not yet advised.

 

Perhaps two differences to our upcoming 3 night cruise:

The length of the cruise

The cruise goes to a foreign port, specifically PNG.

[OzKiwiJJ]

The ship has slowed and the Captain has just announced the helicopter is approaching.

[arxcards]

Well, watiya know. This wasn't there when I logged in at the weekend. Just logged onto the personaliser to see if I could find updated information, to be greeted by this popup.

 

[OzKiwiJJ]

31 minutes ago, arxcards said:

Well, watiya know. This wasn't there when I logged in at the weekend. Just logged onto the personaliser to see if I could find updated information, to be greeted by this popup.

 

So far we haven't had to show the photo but it's better to have it than not.

[arxcards]

2 minutes ago, OzKiwiJJ said:

So far we haven't had to show the photo but it's better to have it than not.

I agree. If they require a photo, we will take one.

[OzKiwiJJ]

Medics have boarded and are prepping the patient for transfer to the helicopter in a few minutes. It's circling the ship at the moment.

[OzKiwiJJ]

The medi-vac has been completed successfully so we're resuming our course to Airlie Beach. No word on how the patient is faring. I hope they do OK. 

[MicCanberra]

We had been asked for evidence on both cruises.

[MMDown Under]

1 hour ago, MicCanberra said:

We had been asked for evidence on both cruises.

You must be like one of my two daughters who always gets searched by security overseas.

[OzKiwiJJ]

Either there aren't many Elite passengers currently onboard or Coral has an exceptionally efficient laundry. We left a bag of laundry to be done on our bed last night. The clean laundry came back around 5:30pm today. 

[yes!yes!yes!]

50 minutes ago, OzKiwiJJ said:

Either there aren't many Elite passengers currently onboard or Coral has an exceptionally efficient laundry. We left a bag of laundry to be done on our bed last night. The clean laundry came back around 5:30pm today. 

We had our laundry back the same day most times during my 4 cruises.

[Cbtours]

2 hours ago, OzKiwiJJ said:

Medics have boarded and are prepping the patient for transfer to the helicopter in a few minutes. It's circling the ship at the moment.

Hope they’re ok💕❤️

[NSWP]

58 minutes ago, OzKiwiJJ said:

Either there aren't many Elite passengers currently onboard or Coral has an exceptionally efficient laundry. We left a bag of laundry to be done on our bed last night. The clean laundry came back around 5:30pm today. 

Same here, put two bags in the other week back within 2 days.

[Cbtours]

2 minutes ago, NSWP said:

Same here, put two bags in the other week back within 2 days.

We used service for first time on our cruise in June. Very impressed by both the speedy service but the quality of the service. Shirts were ironed fantastic!

[NSWP]

8 minutes ago, Cbtours said:

We used service for first time on our cruise in June. Very impressed by both the speedy service but the quality of the service. Shirts were ironed fantastic!

Agree, I have not used an iron in a couple of years, nice of Princess to iron my  clothes, ye gods even my pajamasI mean who irons pj’s? Mind you probably spent spent 100k on Princess in past 20:years. They owe me in elite laundry, lol.

 

Edited September 29, 2022 by NSWP