mattymay

Booked!

Anthem needs to get through in Oct 2024 to start it's Singapore season. Voyager has until Nov 2025.

Most likely, but clearly Virgin don't think it's worth the trouble. I guess they only have 4 ships, where Royal has to put them all somewhere I suppose.

Interesting to see how this affects Anthem and Voyager who both need to make their way into the Pacific over the next few years.

This is getting confusing, I see what you are saying but the '25 Alaska season is already confirmed with Anthem and Quantum. Are you saying they would add Ovation to that?

Makes sense, straight swap with Singapore for Anthem. I wonder where it is going for the winter?

Not sure, however I think that pretty much confirms that Anthem will be in Sydney.

When it was supposed to open in 2022, Sydney cruise ship schedule had an RCL 'unnamed vessel' year round. Thanks covid. Can Noumea take an Oasis? It could do round trip Brisbane - Noumea - Lelepa. Similar to Florida - Nassau - CocoCay.

Did it ever say Anthem? I've only ever seen it say unnamed vessel for 25/26 so far.

Well there are OPT port bookings for 25/26, so hypothetically even if the captain of Independence was correct, he's talking at least 26/27 season. I'm sure lots can change in 3 years.

The only way there would be no RCL Quantum class sailing out of Sydney harbour is if something bigger were coming that couldn't fit there. 3 Icon and 6 Oasis in the next few years, it's getting a bit top heavy in the northern hemisphere lol. You never know I guess!

That's the new itinerary just released to bypass the Suez. Maybe they are thinking it's not worth bringing it back around Africa in 6 months? They were switching it over for Valiant Lady the year after, so will be interesting to see what happens with that ship rather than Resilient Lady as it was leaving anyways.

Slight re-arrangement for Quantum after the Ovation cancellation by the looks of it.. A one way to Sydney, then 21 day Transpacific available to book.

April 8th.. mark it in your calendars!

This does not surprise me! Their itineraries are worse than Royal Caribbean. I mean who really wants to cruise to Burnie in Tasmania. I did it to test out the ship, and it was great, but a chilly 17 degrees in the middle of summer is not what people want.

Probably just more of the same South Pacific and New Zealand. Not sure if it's a size thing or covid, but hopefully Voyager can get into some of the other ports - Lifou, Mare, Isle of Pines, Santo, Suva, Port Denarau, Dravuni Island. That would definitely interest me.

No idea to be honest. But based on the number of dates for Sydney I am guessing only one ship. Same for Brisbane, might not be Voyager like it states but is still only enough bookings for one ship.

Based off the information so far there are currently 4 ships in the mix: Preceding Alaska season with Quantum, Anthem and Radiance. Brisbane port bookings for Voyager.

Anyone have any theories about the Quantum transpacific cancellation?

I was just on Virgin last week out of Melbourne and it's a similar thing. The local P&O line doesn't, but not sure about the other Carnival brands.

I use an Australian credit card with no international transaction fees, however it does tell me how much I have 'saved' every time Royal process a international transaction. It's the same for both Australian and US sailings I've done. If you add your US credit card at check-in you should be fine, as we are the ones who have to pay the fees.

Ovation is a strange one. It does the usual Transpacific (Sydney-Honolulu-Vancouver) in Apr 2025, but then it doesn't make it to Alaska. That means there are 3 (Anthem, Quantum, Ovation) on the US west coast. So there is a chance that any of them could come back I guess, but Ovation has to go 'somewhere' for that 6 months? We might know more in Feb if they show up on the next round of releases.

It just never got the Amp that Mariner and Navigator got which disappointed a lot of people here. "Maybe if we paint the hull RCI blue they won't notice" - someone at RCI I have a Resilient Lady cruise next week out of Melbourne. Feel like I'm cheating on someone , but this is what happens when you don't change things up, people want to try new things. I am hopeful of the Voyager return.

I think he meant 25/26 season. Anthem is in Singapore until Mar 2025, then heads to Alaska to replace Ovation until Sep 2025. The question is where does Anthem go after that? If you base the answer off previous years, then Alaska ships come to Australia, which would be Anthem and Quantum. But...throw in the poor Quantum sales, the carbon reduction @Chili has info on, and the Voyager returning rumor.. it's really hard to say! Do we get 2 Quantum's and 1 Voyager? or will they reduce capacity and go with 1 Quantum and 1 Voyager?.. and if so which Quantum? My uneducated guess is... that they have been reading this blog and see our constant whinging about the same old ships. So... it's Anthem in Sydney and Voyager in Brisbane. It's a long wait until April to find out.. although there might be some hints along the based on other releases.

This is true! Haha.. will be doing my best to avoid Qantas. Our luggage showed up 10 days later, after we got off Wonder we had to drive to MCO airport and collect them from American Airlines baggage services.