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As someone said ,Joff is acquire taste. The British seem to love him. I think I had Chris on Explorer ,quite bubbly.

Who is the cruise director? I believe Jof eaton is on Anthem. (No great loss )

From memory,last time Ovation was here you could buy a hour on flowrider with some lessons. Everthing else was free ,I wonder if the dodgem cars have a charge.

Who are the resident bands onboard? There was usually 3 bands,one at the pool ,one in bolaro’s and one later in the night in music hall .

There’s a few here’s a screenshot .The independent ones are a bit hard to find, they’re not running. We get there 3:00pm on a Saturday and leave Sunday afternoon. A overnight should be good. I would like to go to the coffee factory but it will be closed Im hoping the ship puts something on Saturday night ,if not I’ll just catch the bus into the War horse pub. Then do a ship tour on the Sunday.

I wonder why boarder force was so picky? Are you doing a B2B ? Are you on the next one to Vila ?

Tell us how you go with boarding formalities . I’m on next cruise to the islands.

I think there’s going to be a shake up in the pacific. Hong Kong, a year round ship in Australia, possibly a deployment in Japan. A new ship for L.A ? Not to mention the saga of Lelepa.

There’s still plenty here but you don’t hear about it , Covid what?

I thought Covid was over ?

I’m thinking brilliance or Navigator .

How’s this ? I think it’s just more of Royal’s hype. They have trouble filling Quantum let alone a Oasis. But then again Florida will be starting to get congested with Icon and Utopia.

https://www.cruiseweekly.com.au/news/royal-considers-oasis-deployment/71507#1

I don’t know about some of the things in that article and some of the claims about Lelepa. There was a article that they gave a heap of stuff to the local school but there’s a foreign aid group that also claims to have done it also. My thoughts a private island isn’t viable . https://www.dailypost.vu/news/sharm-foundation-commences-large-donor-aid-project-on-lelepa-island/article_6a7b4c27-1a12-5527-b8cf-8dae7b4ee63f.html

That doesn’t seem that bad, I thought it would be more. I remember buying 2 martini’s on embarkation a few years back and quick calculation it worked out to $45AU . I didn’t buy a second round. like I said they are competing with Carnival, I was buying pints at $10AU .

I think they are starting to believe their own advertising. What would a wharf cost to take a oasis class? Probably the best they could use it would be twice a week and that’s 6 months a year. It’s 2 days sailing from anywhere ,4-5 ships (including Celebrity) in the area. It doesn’t seem viable to me, it’s not Florida.

How about this one

I also think if they don’t address the onboard prices in $U.S. they will be losing a lot of customers to Carnival. When I was on that wreck Pacific Explorer they had pints of draft beer for $10AU . A Budweiser on Royal is going to be $15 AU .

https://cruisepassenger.com.au/news/royal-caribbean-reveals-five-stage-plan-for-regions-first-ever-private-resort-for-cruise-passengers/

Quantum was only about half full for the trans pacific. There were suites available a couple of days ago. I think that says it all.

What I’m wondering is if you have to have a resent vaccination. I have had 3 shots but the last was in December and I don’t really want to get another. Am I fully vaccinated???

I can’t see a new cruise terminal happening in the current financial climate for a long time unless they pass the hat around. They can use Hayes dock in port botany but that would be complicated.

Has Royal gazumped P&O / Carnival? https://www.dailypost.vu/news/return-of-international-cruising-next-month/article_740961ff-d50b-5c95-af53-b18e3f5b2ea1.html

How about rephrasing it ,a willing to sail list ? I just heard rumour about 3-4 years ago , I thought someone could confirm it. Before Royal up my agent would call and say I have the rep on the phone.Are you interested in a paid upgrade? Any of you friends interested in the cruise?

I was told before the shutdown regular cruisers could go on a standby list or a last minute wait list for cruises that are undersold . Has anyone had experience with that ? And how would you do it ?