Sydney (Australia)

Hobart

we did not go into this port due to weather

Dunedin

very windy day but worth the visit into town

Wellington

one of the best ports in NZ, always cant wait to get back to this town

Picton

$10 return shuttle into town and well worth the trip

Tauranga

a TENDER PORT !!! what a shock, all of the lower Queens street gone now including the Warehouse ! ship tenders take you 7 blocks away not to Queens or Princes wharf

Auckland

A very common complaint from many women was that the toilet paper was rough and a thin single sheet of poor quality so you may consider bringing on your own, albeit it this is supposed to be a “premium ship and cruise” where you are paying up to 30% more for a similar itinerary on a similar “star” ship

The TV in the cabin has a great picture, it has the normal channels HOWEVER it doesn’t offer the movie that was shown the day before and your only offering in movies is to purchase them at US$ 12 so a movie will end up costing you around AUD$ 15-18 !Ports

The good itinerary ( only port lacking was Napier) started with our first port of call Hobart with all as  expected, however we ran into very poor weather and had 3 days of the “premium bells n whistles” shut down while crossing the Tasman from Hobart to Milford Sound where we entered the sound and sat for 6 hours having being told the day before we would be not calling into Dunedin and instead going up the west side of the south island into Wellington, then onto Picton a fantastic small port that each year keeps re inventing / improving itself for cruise passengers ( much like Napier has) and certainly a port you want you to go back to then onto Tauranga ( the locations is really the  port of Mount Maunganui and you can get a “express bus” into Tauranga for $10 return.

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