It seems that any ship that is sent to Cruise From Australian ports are the ships that are aged and badly designed so they send them here because they think that we will put up with being overcharged and can be talked down to by some cruise staff because we don,t have many Americans as on other ships going from overseas ports which we have sailed from.

EMBARKATION But after saying that, embarkation from Freemantle port was very fast, but it could have been that we are platinum members as that means priority check in.

CABIN As for the balcony cabin we booked in July 2008 and picked our cabin which was on Aloha deck 11 but were upgraded to Riviera deck 12 when we embarked which was not really an upgrade as we found the cabin and balcony to so small that we seemed to be tripping or hitting something everytime we walked past the end of the bed or just trying to dry yourself in the shower/toilet cubicle as we said we have cruised on Princesswere rooms SQ Feet being on the Grand and Pacific 230 sq feet with the Sun Prince only 173 sq feet but thankfully we got another wonderful cabin steward (Jeffrey) who done a fantastic job. Read more