Upcoming holidays:

Upcoming Holidays:
25 January 2025 - Sandy is taking a four day cruise - Sydney to Hobart and return.
April 2025 - Not a cruise! - instead a trip to Brisbane to watch the Panthers vs Dolphins game, and of course to see the family.
August 2025 - And again, not a cruise! - a weekend in Sydney to see Star Wars: A New Hope, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing the music live.
27 September 2025 - Slightly early celebration for Paul's 70th birthday - 7 day Barrier Reef cruise on the Carnival (ex-P&O) Encounter.
August - September 2026 - 12 day "British Isles with France and Belfast" cruise on the Majestic Princess then a stay in the UK afterwards.


Saturday, 16 March 2013

Final post about the NZ cruise - and the next holiday.

Well obviously we got home - a few weeks ago actually.
The last couple of days on the cruise followed the pattern of all the others - laze around, lose money at the Casino, eat, read, rinse and repeat  :-)  Just what I want a cruise to be.
However, having said that, I probably wouldn't cruise with Carnival again and it's not because their ships keep breaking down  :-)  There was just a bit too much bingo, karaoke and 'comedians' and not quite enough interesting entertainment of the informative type for me.  Not saying it was bad - it was a really interesting itinerary and I'm astounded that they're not doing any NZ cruises next year - just that there are other cruise lines that suit us better.

On to the next holiday.  If we win the Lotto, we're going to go to Hawaii in October, spend some time there and then cruise home on the Celebrity Millenium.  And, whether we win the Lotto or not, we're going on a Baltic cruise next August on the Emerald Princess.  I booked it this morning, and now I have 519 days to organise everything that has to happen on the cruise, plus a few weeks in the UK before and/or after the cruise.  Pretty sure that's enough time  :-)