My DW and I took this 20 day cruise because of me mostly. I am a WWII history buff and wanted to visit some of the southwest Pacific battlefields. I am 63 and DW is 62 and we are in pretty good shape and we are from the U.S. Apparently there were only 83 Americans on the ship and the rest were mostly Australians and a mix of New Zealanders and others from places unknown. I found the Australians to be great fun and we meet some really nice people hanging out at Crooners, our main watering hole on ship.

On April 5, took a car to White Bay Cruise Terminal where we boarded the Sun Princess. Embarkation was easy and we were in are cabin in less than twenty minutes. We arrived at around 1 PM so that may have helped. We dropped our carry on in the cabin and had lunch in the Regency Dining Room, which was also our MDR for the cruise, table 156. We purchased the AIBP for the cruise because we had a lot of OBC to use. We felt that it was a good deal because we paid in AUD not US dollars. It included every beverage we had onboard.

At sail away we met up with some cruise critic folks at the Sundowners Bar that I had been corresponding with for about a year. Beautiful sail away. Read more