We embarked from Brisbane on Feb 18th on Sun Princess as second time cruisers on an around New Zealand 14 day cruise.
We encountered rough seas for two days on route to Auckland causing not only mass seasickness but numerous fractured limbs . The ship's rolling and pitching really amazed us as we had thought that these large cruising ships were designed with more stability under such ocean conditions .
The other sobering aspect of cruising down-under was the largely over 70 age of fellow passengers , and it was 97% of fellow passengers that would have been over 65yrs.
Our cabin RA344 on deck 12 , is directly below Horizon Restaurant , where every night remodeling occurs resulting in noise all night . Curtain rods bang in bigger seas , again waking you up .