40 Days to go

Well here we are 40 days to go and starting to get things organized. Updating the medical provisions, scheduling bill payments, checking on the luggage, buying clothes for the trip. This last is a biggy. 28 days at sea and Mary. has decided she doesn’t want to contend with laundry rage. Not sure how we can accommodate that and still meet Virgin Airlines 20kg per person luggage restrictions. We might have to wear half a dozen shirts/blouses on the plane.

I was checking into our Cruise Personaliser the other day and noticed two new entries. The first was our flight details from Brisbane down to Sydney. We fly out of Brisbane at 8am arriving in Sydney at 10.30am. I think it takes about 30 minutes from the airport to the ship so we should be onboard in time for lunch around noon.
The second new entry was a visit from the upgrade fairy. We originally booked C622 Caribe Deck and now we have been upgraded to B706 on Baja Deck. The cabin looks the same size and the location is almost the same, it’s just one deck up and I’m told that’s an upgrade.

There haven’t been many new shorex arranged since my last post. We decided to book a Princess Circle Island Tour on Bora Bora as there didn’t seem to be many other options. This is a morning tour that will have us back to the ship around lunchtime and leave the afternoon free to do our own thing.
There has been some new developments on Moorea. Originally we had intended to do the Tikki Village independently and had a very good price from the Village for our entry. They also offered to provide some transport to their show at quite a good price. They were then asked to combine all of the above with a tour of the island and the price they came back with was almost as expensive as Princess. As I write there are about 18 of our CC group who want to do this tour and Evon is negotiating the final deal.

Fiji is still up in the air a bit. At the moment SavuSavu looks like a bus or taxi to a beach. Suva might be a shopping expedition at Tappoos or Jacks. At Port Denaru I think we will do as DucknChook did and ride the shuttle buses to some of the Resorts and on Dravuni I think it’s just eat, drink, have a swim and relax on the last day before the sail home to Sydney.

Had a call from our TA this morning just to make sure I knew that our deal inluded transport to the airport in Brisbane, our flights to and from Sydney plus transport to and from the ship. I knew about the flights and happy to hear about the transport to Brisbane. We usually ask a favour of my good mate Rob but this year he can have a sleep in.

Ok, all for now. More later