Welcome to my travel blog. We are occasional cruisers, usually with the aim of travelling at least once each year.

Previously I have published each cruise with a separate blog. I have now decided to combine them all in a single location. This blogs primary purpose is to keep a summary of our cruises for ourselves.
The Brisbane ship tab is a list of upcoming ships into Brisbane for the ship watcher enthusiast. The photo tab are cruise ship photos. World cruise blog tab has links to follow, making it easier if you access the blog by a mobile device and can't see my reading list on the right.

Sunday 28 January 2024

Post COVID cruise catchup

I'm not sure where the last 6 years went. We finally took the plunge to cruise again last year on the Pacific Encounter from Brisbane. It was just a 7 day GBR cruise, the first for us actually making it into Airlie Beach. It helps to travel outside cyclone season. This was our first cruise without my son now we aren't at the mercy of school holidays.






Wednesday 5 December 2018

Cruise Australia and New Zealand December 2018

Finally, we're packed and ready for our next cruise. We leave tomorrow, flying to Sydney to meet the Majestic Princess for a 12 night cruise. Out first port of call will be Hobart, followed by Melbourne. We then cross the ditch for a scenic cruise through the Fiordland. Port Chalmers, Akaroa, Tauranga and Auckland round off the New Zealand ports. We disembark in Auckland and have 5 nights catching some LOTR sights on the north island, then fly back to Brisbane.


Saturday 29 September 2018

Brisbane cruise ships October - December 2018

The Sea Princess has returned from it's 2018 world cruise. Thanks to all the bloggers keeping us posted. Some are still updating and we all appreciate it as it's such a daunting task keeping up with photos, slow internet, etc.

This wave season I've decided to only put a single post about the ships into Brisbane this year. The port of Brisbane has split the schedule into Portside and Multi-Use (Fisherman Island). Having a look at the Portside schedule, the regular ships will be docked there with only a couple of overseas ships in December. The Fisherman Island schedule is also sparse.
PORTSIDE
So...regular ships to Brisbane are

  • Pacific Dawn
  • Pacific Aria
  • Pacific Jewel
  • Sea Princess
  • Sun Princess
The Portside schedule can be viewed at their website.

The only two overseas ships at Portside are
  • Oceania Regatta on the 11th December 2018
  • Viking Orion on the 13th December 2018

FISHERMAN ISLAND
Overseas or occasional visits to Fisherman Island for the remainder of 2018 are
  • Celebrity Solstice Tuesday 06 November 2018
  • Norwegian Jewel Wednesday 28 November 2018
  • MS Regatta Saturday 15 December 2018
  • Noordam Thursday 20 December 2018
  • Silver Muse Friday 04 January 2019
  • Norwegian Jewel Wednesday 16 January 2019
  • Seven Seas Mariner Tuesday 22 January 2019
The Multi-use terminal (Fisherman Island grain terminal) schedule can be checked at their website

BICT
The new Brisbane International cruise terminal (BICT) is under construction and their latest newsletter are available here.
The Carnival Spirit is the first confirmed ship to home port at the BICT from 2020.
In other news, we are booked on a Majestic Princess cruise. More details to follow.

Sunday 3 June 2018

World Cruise Blogs - 2018 Sea Princess

Well it looks like the Sea Princess is off again on it's world cruise. It left Auckland and is on it's way to Sydney to pickup more passengers and then to Brisbane to embark the final travellers.

There are quite a few blogs kicking off this cruise. The list so far....

gaznjoworldadventure2018

mainlyatsea

kiwihdrider

David and Lyn's travels

Ken and Joys worldcruise 2018

Winterlesses

Col and Jude's half world cruise 2018

Marg and John's travels 2018

winterescape 2018






There have been a few changes to the itinerary since first published but the dates above will give a rough indication where they are.

Sunday 8 April 2018

Brisbane cruise ships 9th April - 15th April 2018

There are 3 cruise ships for Brisbane this week. Two at Portside and one at Fisherman Island.
UPDATE 14/4/2018

PORTSIDE

Friday 13th April 2018: Pacific Aria
Sunday 15th April 2018: Pacific Dawn

FISHERMAN ISLAND

Monday 9th April 2018: Celebrity Solstice

From my photo archives

Monday 2 April 2018

Brisbane cruise ships 2nd April - 8th April 2018

There are only 2 cruise ships for Brisbane this week. Both at Portside. I hope everyone has had a great Easter


PORTSIDE

Friday 6th April 2018: Pacific Aria
Saturday 7th April 2018: Pacific Dawn

From my photo archives
Sea Princess Easter 2017

Sunday 25 March 2018

More cruise blogs to follow

I've really been spoilt this season for cruise blogs to follow. I can't thank everyone enough as I know how time consuming doing a blog on the fly while travelling, with limited internet is.
So this is a few more and a list of the current cruises in progress. Some of these blogs are from my previous posts. An interesting side note, look at how many Rick or Ricki's are cruising and blogging.

Cunard Queen Elizabeth
Viking Ocean cruises, Viking Sun
Reagent Seven Seas Navagator
Reagent Seven Seas Explorer followed by the Navigator
Crystal Symphony
Pacific Princess
Fred Olsen Cruise Line, Black Watch
Holland America Line, Amsterdam