Cruise ships Brisbane 30th October - 12th November 2017

Cruise ships in Brisbane for the next two weeks. 

Scheduled for Portside
Friday 3rd November 2017: Pacific Aria
Saturday 4th November 2017: Pacific Dawn
Friday 10th November 2017: Pacific Aria
Saturday 11th November 2017: Pacific Dawn

Scheduled for Fisherman Island (Grain terminal)
Friday 3rd November 2017: Sun Princess


From my photo archives

Sun Princess, Brisbane, 2010

Cruise ships Brisbane 16th October - 29th October 2017

Cruise ships in Brisbane for the next two weeks. 

Scheduled for Portside
Monday 16th October 2017: Pacific Aria
Saturday 21st October 2017: Pacific Dawn
Monday 23rd October 2017: MS Maasdam
Friday 27th October 2017: Pacific Aria
Saturday 28th October 2017: Pacific Dawn


From my photo archives

Pacific Dawn, Alotau, April 2014

Cruises 2010 - 2015

This is a list of our cruises to 2015 with links to each group of blog pages.
Alternatively, scroll down through the pages.

• 2010 Pacific Dawn to Vanuatu and New Caledonia

• 2011 Pacific Dawn to Fiji

• 2012 Sun Princess to New Zealand

• 2014 Pacific Dawn to PNG

• 2015 Diamond Princess to Tasmania

• 2015 Pacific Aria to Vanuatu

Cruise ships Brisbane 30th September - 15th October 2017

Cruise ships in Brisbane for the next two weeks. 

Scheduled for Portside
Saturday 30th September 2017: Pacific Dawn
Monday 2nd October 2017: Pacific Aria
Thursday 5th October 2017: Sun Princess
Saturday 7th October 2017: Pacific Dawn
Tuesday 10th October 2017: Pacific Dawn
Thursday 12th October 2017: Pacific Aria
Saturday 14th October 2017: Pacific Dawn


From my photo archives

Pacific Aria April 2017

it's been a while...

Well it's now 5 months since our last cruise on the Sea Princess. The ship has sailed a world cruise and returned for more sailings since then.

I have finally booked another cruise. This time it's the new year's cruise with P&O Australia. I'll post a bit more about this in the next few weeks.

As we are approaching the "wave" season in Australia, I intend to list each week upcoming cruise ships in Brisbane. The goal is to give the ship watcher enthusiast a heads up, especially for ships that only make a one-off visit. So hopefully there will be a post every Sunday morning with the following week's schedule. Of course if you are actually cruising, please go by the instructions given to you by the cruise line, don't rely on my blog post as schedules may change at short notice.

World cruise 2017 Sea Princess

On the bucket list is a world cruise. As I'm many years away from having the time and money, I just follow along from home via other cruisers travel blogs.

The Sea Princess left Sydney on 20th May 2017 for the 105 night world cruise.
So far they have called at Colombo and Dubai and are currently heading through pirate waters to Aqaba in Jordan.

Bloggers I'm following are

• Gaznjosadventures 2017

• Winter escape 2017

• Off to live the world

I hope everyone is having a fabulous trip.

Some of the ports of call are
Mon 22/05/17 Melbourne 
Fri 26/05/17 Fremantle (Perth) 
Sat 03/06/17 Colombo / Sri Lanka 
Thu 08/06/17 Dubai / United Arab Emirates
Thu 15/06/17 Aqaba / Jordan
Fri 16/06/17 Passage Suez Canal / Egypt 
Sat 17/06/17 Passage Suez Canal / Egypt
Mon 19/06/17 Santorin / Greece 
Wed 21/06/17 Rijeka / Croatia
Thu 22/06/17 Venice / Italy
Fri 23/06/17 Venice / Italy 
Sat 24/06/17 Koper / Slovenia
Mon 26/06/17 Valletta / Malta 
Wed 28/06/17 Civitavecchia (Rome) / Italy 
Thu 29/06/17 Genoa / Italy 
Fri 30/06/17 Monte Carlo / Monaco 
Sat 01/07/17 Barcelona / Spain
Mon 03/07/17 Cádiz / Spain 
Tue 04/07/17 Lisbon / Portugal 
Fri 07/07/17 Cobh (Cork) / Ireland 
Sun 09/07/17 Le Havre / France 
Mon 10/07/17 Dover / England 
Thu 13/07/17 Gravdal (Leknes/Lofoten) / Norway 
Fri 14/07/17 Tromsø / Norway 
Sat 15/07/17 Honningsvag (North Cape) / Norway
Tue 18/07/17 Akureyri / Iceland 
Wed 19/07/17 Reykjavik / Iceland
Tue 25/07/17 Halifax / Canada 
Thu 27/07/17 New York (NY) / USA 
Fri 28/07/17 New York (NY) / USA 
Sun 30/07/17 Charleston (SC) / USA 
Tue 01/08/17 Key West (FL) / USA
Fri 04/08/17 Cartagena de Indias / Colombia
Mon 07/08/17 Manta / Ecuador 
Wed 09/08/17 Callao (Lima) / Peru 
Thu 10/08/17 Callao (Lima) / Peru
Fri 11/08/17 Pisco / Peru
Wed 16/08/17 Hangaroa / Easter Island
Sat 19/08/17 Pitcairn (Passage) / South Seas
Tue 22/08/17 Papeete (Tahiti) / French Polynesia 
Wed 23/08/17 Bora Bora / French Polynesia 
Tue 29/08/17 Auckland / New Zealand
Sat 02/09/17 Sydney / Australia
Mon 04/09/17 Brisbane / Australia

GBR cruise summary April 2017

As promised, this is a brief summary of our latest cruise.
Booked about 15 months ago, it eventually came around with a few minor itinerary changes including a change as we boarded.

Final Itinerary

• 7th April 2017: Depart Brisbane 6pm

• 8th April 2017: Sea day

• 9th April 2017: Sea day with scenic cruising Willis Island 1-2pm

• 10th April 2017: Port Douglas (tender) 7am-6pm

• 11th April 2017: Cairns 7am-overnight

• 12th April 2017: Cairns departure-6.30am

• 13th April 2017: Sea day

• 14th April 2017: Sea day

• 15th April 2017: Sydney (OPT) 7am-4pm

• 16th April 2017: Sea day

• 17th April 2017: Brisbane 7am

  

We had a fabulous cruise, it just wasn't long enough. 
For port info see the previous posts. I have included menus for the MDR (main dining room) on most days as well. For other stats, movies shown, entertainers, production shows, staff etc see below.

Cruise Line: Princess cruises
Ship: Sea Princess
Cruise: 10 night Great Barrier Reef cruise.
Voyage: C705B
Cabin: P335, outside Cat. OC Deck 5.
Captain: Aldo Traverso
Cruise Director: Jen Glancey


Movies 
These were shown during the voyage either at MUTS (movies under the stars) or the Vista lounge. Movies were usually replayed the following day on your stateroom TV.

• Jackie (2016)
• Hidden Figures
• Jurassic World
• Inferno (2016)
• Moonlight
• Eddie the Eagle
• The Girl on the Train (2016)
• La La Land
• Lion (2016)
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Ghostbusters (2016)
• Passengers (2016)

Production Shows

• Stardust
• Disco..Blame it on the Boogie
• Sweet Soul Music
• British Invasion

Guest Entertainers

• Tribute: Monty Cotton-Johnny Cash
• Tribute:The Blues Bros.
• Tribute: Greg Andrews- Elton John
• Comedian: Jason Ryder
• Comedian: Chris Radburn
• Comedy Magic: Adam Dean
• Piano Entertainer: Brian Johnson

We managed to see all the production shows, most of the guest entertainers and only 2 movies.

So that's our cruise for the year. The 2018-2019 itineraries came out a few days ago and I have been pouring over them trying to decide what to do. Of course we are still locked to school holidays and after both our April cruises in recent years having been altered due to cyclones, I'm thinking we should try for early December again. There are murmurings by my cruising buddies of possibly a snow skiing trip so watch this space for 2018. (I'm not sure who is going to turn my bed down and leave a chocolate on the pillow if we go skiing though!)