Jamesszy94

Oh how the other half live!! On my next cruise in about 3 weeks time.. I'm only in an Oceanview Glad y'all are enjoying your time on Harmony! I would LOVE to try Oasis-class one day... but y'know... Royal refuses to send one down under.

Yikes..I guess we're stuck with QN class... I guess it's still *technically* a new ship... Anthem is supposed to make a stop in Hong Kong in April of 2025.. so maybe Royal are doing Sydney > Asia routes again?

Enjoy Icon! Looking forward to the next 7 days of seeing pictures of a ship I'm never getting on....

Honestly why do they make you take your shoes off in the United States? Every other country I've been to, you can just leave your shoes on, but when we went through TSA Customs back in 2017, we had to take everything off, including socks and shoes....

Personally I would go the day before if I had to fly - but that's because airlines in Australia (at least Domestic flights in Sydney) are rubbish - constant delays, random cancellations. Cruise is for a Monday? Expect to see me there Sunday morning *looking at you Jetstar*

You're right about not many people wanting to sail from Brisbane - why would you want to sail from Brisbane if the ports are the same as Ovation and you could sail out of Sydney Harbour, which is 10x more beautiful. Which is what I'm saying, if they want to homeport a ship in Brisbane, they need to change up the itineraries and not have it be the same as the Ovation ones, otherwise, there's no incentive to sail from Brisbane.

They're probably trialling how long they can get boarding times down to. AFAIK I was under the impression that an Oasis-sized ship would fit into the OPT, Ovation isn't that much smaller length wise than Allure, Allure is 362m, Ovation is 348m, and Allure has two more decks than Ovation does. Ovation is pretty big already, so I think Oasis could definitely fit, but like you said, the question is whether OPT can process passengers fast enough.

I feel like the reason they struggle to fill Quantum is because of the itineraries and the fact that Sydney already has Ovation. If they gave Brisbane an Oasis-class that went to different destinations, I could see people being willing to sail out of Brisbane more + it would be the closest Oasis to many of the Asia-Pacific countries, like China, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore etc. I'm sure they'd be able to fill up an Oasis-class if they really wanted to.

Oasis7 for Australia!?!

Stop. Don't give them ideas for ship names... Amusement Park of the Seas..

As long as it's not based in North America, it's whatever. Does Royal know something get we don't know? Are they finally building a new port in Port Kembla in Australia? Will Oasis7 be based in Australia?!

I've only been on QN... well because we've only had QN here in Australia (since I started cruising)...and I didn't start cruising till I was 22... and also because I missed Voyager the first time she was here. I would love to try another class of ship - I'm just not willing to pay thousands of dollars to fly

Allure is finally getting her amplification this year? Explorer received hers last year?

Another live blog for me to live vicariously through... until either: a) Royal gives us Aussies an Oasis/Icon class ship. I refuse to fly to the US just to get on a 7 day cruise on an Oasis class. I have money, but I'm not THAT rich. b) I can experience a suite... I'm not poor or anything, but I don't have as much disposable income as some others...

I think we might be on the same cruise. Cruising to New Zealand 10 nights? If so yay! It depends when you get there, if you get there between say 10am to 1pm, that's usually when the lines are the longest, cause people wanna get onto the ship as early as possible and get to the pools, buffet etc. If you go after 2pm, there's usually no line. On all of my Royal sailings, I got to the port at around 1pm, and there was still a line, but it wasn't insane. YMMV.

Maybe they'll send us Utopia (Last minute changes are always possible!) As long as we get a new class of ship or something different that isn't a QN class, I'll be happy. I do hope that we get more exotic/different destinations. South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand cruises are starting to get boring, there's only so many times you can visit those ports. But then again... people visit PDCC many times...

Yeah, that's like still a long time, let's just focus on the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 season first! Here's hoping once Allure's finished getting her amp, they send her down to Australia! I guess everyone should sail Ovation/Quantum? one last time before she inevitably leaves the Australian market for good.

You never know! Stranger things have happened.

Either that or they're sending us Voyager and possibly a Radiance class... OR they're designing one of the "Discovery" class just for Australia market.. I guess we'll see in 2 months when Royal release their deployment!

But which port would Icon/Oasis homeport in? The OPT isn't exactly suited to host an Icon/Oasis sized ship... and White Bay is almost impossible lol

I've always said they should give us Allure!! Maybe the dry dock will remove the plants in the Royal Promenade!

My bid for an Oceanview got accepted..

Those prices I listed are in Australian Dollar, but also it's for a sailing that's in 2 months.

But! Carnival has Mardi Gras, Celebration and Jubilee! Also the Are we really that safe though?

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