Upcoming holidays:

Upcoming Holidays:
16 June 2024 - Off to Sydney for an overnight stay - seeing a show at the Opera House.
26 July 2024 - Sandy is making a quick trip to Brisbane for Dayboro State School's 150th anniversary.
19 August 2024 - Cruising from Sydney to Fremantle via Northern Australia - 18 days on the Coral Princess.
2 April 2025 - Cruise to Moreton Island on the Carnival Splendor.
10 October 2025 - Paul's 70th birthday - 3 day "Cruise to Nowhere" on the Pacific Explorer.
1 December 2025 - Cruise from Singapore to Brisbane on the Voyager of the Seas.

Saturday 9 February 2019

New Zealand Cruise - Majestic Princess - Day 4 Saturday 9 February - Auckland

Arrived here at around midday, as planned.  The Norwegian Jewel was already docked; turns out they're staying here overnight and don't leave until tomorrow afternoon. 
We were hoping to go to our regular coffee shop, but it wasn't there any more - a different coffee chain had taken over and it was closed for the day!
As it happens we didn't really need a coffee anyway.  We wanted to pick up SIM cards for our phones and tablets to last us for the rest of the cruise.  The Spark store we'd normally go to seemed to be closed - HEAPS of building work going on around Auckland (including a new underground train system) and the shopping centre we'd normally go to seems to be completely closed while being renovated.  Anyway, the Spark store we found had a coffee shop inside.  We weren't going to have a coffee there, but they were having computer trouble and the young lady who was serving us shouted us a coffee while we waited. It was a really good coffee, and I didn't think we had to wait all that long anyway.  Overall a very efficient and happy experience.
We also found a food hall which had more Asian style food stores than I've ever seen in one place - it smelled absolutely delicious!  Paul has some Thai food which was apparently quite good; I ended up just having a pie - also good if not particularly Asian.
Here's the obligatory picture of (part of) the ship with our cabin circled:
I might try to get a picture of the whole ship when we're in port somewhere else; it really is quite large!

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