Pacific Pearl Review

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carofil
2-5 Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Dec 2011

Just before Christmas 2011, my wife (Carolyn) and I planned to travel to Auckland and drive around the North Island for a couple of weeks before taking the Celebrity Century on a 12 night cruise arriving back in Sydney on the 18th January. It was our intention to fly to Auckland, however, on investigating the cruise calendar, we found a Pacific Pearl re-positioning cruise from Sydney to Auckland that fitted the time frame of our holiday.

Now I must say that after following the CruiseCritic reviews on the Pearl, I had not gained lot of confidence to take this option! I have noticed that there has been a lot of bagging of this ship by quite a number of reviewers, and I was a little hesitant in considering this possibility to say the least!

The thing that helped us make the decision to sail on the Pearl to Auckland, was that my wife's brother (Calvin) and his wife (Narelle) had taken the Pearl on an Island voyage back in April 2011 and gave it a glowing report! Ok, they were first time cruisers, and that may influence their perception and experience of the sailing, but we had enough confidence in their judgement that we thought, 'let's take the plunge'! "After all, it's only 4 nights and we should be able to manage that!" When all is said and done, 4 nights cruising has to be better than a few hours flying, and the price was bargain base!!

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