12 Days of Cruis’mas – Day 12: Spot the destinations

Nice one to finish on!

Just view the website, the same pictures are used.

We are sailing!!!….http://www.pocruises.com.au/FindACruise/Destinations/Pages/PacificIslands.aspx#portcar

Apia, Auckland, Bora Bora and \isle of pines

A BIG THANKS TO ALL YOU GREAT GUYS FOR BEING SO GENEROUS TO SHARE THE ANSWERS.WISHING EVERYONE GOOD LUCK IN THE COMPETITON AND WHO EVER IS THE LUCKY PERSON HAVE FUN. WISHING YOU ALL A HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A PEACEFUL HEALTHY 2010- RITU

first let me say merry christmas and a happy new year to all and good luck to all, apia,auckland,bora bora,isle pines,a gain many thanks to all.

good luck to you all, and thank you for helping me with the answer i was pretty useless at times, have a merrry merry xmas and a happy new year, hopefully we get to cruise a lot this new year, cya all at the seas

still not sure if is right day 4 guess the dinner

Thankyou everyone, it has been fun tossing answers around,
Apia, Auckland, Bora Bora, Isle of Pines. I must say though please spare a thought for the beautiful people from both Western and American Samoa. Their islands recovering after the Sumami. We sailed into their harbours days after it happened it was sad to see the devastation. They welcomed us with open arms. Merry Christmas and a Happy & Safe New Year to all

Likewise, good luck every one. I think that we have all shared a wealth of knowledge with us and may the best person win. It has been nice knowing you all

The winner looks like he or she will have a fabulous time. Good Luck everyone!

Apia,Auckland,Bora,Bora,and Isle of Pines.

Thanks to everyone for your very generous sharing of answers. There were a couple I just couldn’t guess. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and good luck to whomever wins the comp.

Good luck to everyone. Thanks for the help when I needed it, it has been fun over the last 12 days. To the person who wins enjoy.
Merry Christams and Happy New Year to you all.

Three cheers to everyone who helped with the answers. Goodluck to one and all may who ever wins have a fantastic time and think of all those who didnt get lucky this time.It was fun doing the tasks! aaye mateys have a fun xmas!

You guys have been fabulous. Good Luck everyone. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all.

Apia…Auckland…Bora Bora…… and Isle of Pines

Good luck everybody. have a very happy safe Christmas

Thanks everyone for sharing the last twelve days it has been fun and just show what great people are that go a cruising

Claudia – No 4 is Chicken Chow Mein Stir Fry.
Happy cruisin’ everyone

Yes, what a great lot of boys and girls that love cruising. thanks every one for all the help you have given over the 12 days.
happy cruiseing.
philip

It is ”Chicken Chow Mien Stir Fry” Good luck, Mike.

Apia, Auckland, Bora Bora and Isle Of Pines

Apia, Auckland, Bora Bora and Isle Of Pines

to all at p&o have a great christmas and a happy new year, and thankyou ,yours dave heap

MERY XMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL,.
WISHING YOU ALL LUCK, WHOEVER IS THE WINNER. THANK’S FOR SOME OF THE ANSWERS, TOO

I hope P & O announce the winner

Hi all bloggers, Have you all had a look at cruise cam for PJ. It says heading towards Sydney Australia. I know sometimes they get it a bit mixed up. I hope they are heading to Melbourne not Sydney.

Thanks heaps to everyone for sharing the answers, some were bit hard for me , wish there was more than one cruise to win , good luck , and happy christmas to all …………..

Good luck to everyone – Does anyone know when the winner will be announced???

Hi every one thanks for helping out with some of the answers wishing every one all the best for Christmas and the New Year
All the best to management and crew for P&O and thank you for the opportunity to enter .
Good luck every one and congratulation in advance to the winner
(wish we could all go hay !)

apia auckland bora bora isle of pines

Apia,Auckland,Bora,Bora,and Isle of Pines

Hi Folks, been a great Competition,great to see so many people entering.Wishing you all good luck and wishing all a Very merry xmas and a Happy New year
Wayne and Liz

Hi,

I’m trying to get a response from PO as to where and when the Pacific Jewel is docking in melbourne on the 13th december 2009 and am not getting a response from Twitter or email, can anyone help me with a website or other contact to find this info out please?

Apia, Auckland, Bora Bora & Isle of Pines.

Wow, so many people knowing the answer! This has been one of the most popular competitions yet. Merry Christmas all!

Apia,Auckland,Bora Bora,Isle of Pines

Merry Christmas and a safe New Year hope 2010 is kind to everyone. Thank you all for the help in the Competition and Good Luck. May the winner enjoy every minute of the Cruise.

When is the Launch party going to be on this blogg? Photos & comments.

Wondering that myself.

Apia, Auckland, Bora Bora & Isle of Pines.

Apia, Auckland, Bora Bora, Isle of Pines
Also All the best for Christmas and hope 2010 is prosperous for you all.

Would LOVE to get news on the winner of the 3 day cruise with 3 friends!! Come on P & O – we’re all waiting.

Yes, we are waiting on who won the cruise. I am still searching for the terms & conditions of the compitition to find our the draw date. I will keep looking.

Found terms & Conditions.
Compitition is drawn: 15 / 1 / 2010

Se we will have to wait a little longer to find out who won.

Thanks, Jen. At least I’ll stop looking daily now, for my winning entry to be announced ha ha

Thank you everyone for sharing your knowledge. You have helped me heaps. Best of Luck to all.

I see Pacific Jewel is back in Sydney, won’t be long now before we get our first blogg of what she is like.
Hope all who sailed on the maiden cruise had a fantastic time. I have to wait for 12 months to go on Pacific Jewel, but only 4 weeks until Pacific Dawn. Can’t wait to just relax and do nothing, although I do like all the activities Cruise ships have to offer.

Pacific Jewel is a beautiful ship. Just came back this morning
from the maiden voyage. We got the nice presents ( golf um-
brella and tote bag). The highlight was the night when Marcia
Hines performed at The Marquee, it was great. The only thing
that did not score high on my card was the service at the dining
(Waterfront restaurant); the food was superb but the slow
serving of food gave me the turn off. Aside from this small
glitz I enjoyed my cruise just like the others I did with P&O.

They collected our cruise cards when we disembarked this
morning. I was not pleased because I am keeping a
book of my cruise cards that I accumulated after years of
cruising. I wish P&O can send them back to all the maiden
voyagers who were on the cruise ship first sailing out of
Sydney.

Auckland, Apia,Bora Bora & Isle Of Pines

Helen, that is strange. I to am keeping my cruise cards & I put them in my photo album with my cruise photos. Maybe they are able to re-use them now. Recycle everything. I thought names & cabin numbers were printed on the cards. Can’t remember it has been 4 years since my last cruise.
4 weeks until I go on Pacific Dawn. My husband received his tickets in the mail today. I am expecting my ticket on Monday. We have different cabins bacause I have our 3 children in my cabin. I did think our tickets would all come together.
Helen apart from collecting cruise cards, tell us what was Pacific Jewel like.

Did anyone with children go on Pacific Jewel?
What was the child centres like?
What was the children meals like? etc etc
Tell us about all children things.
Does child centre take children on Bridge tour or do parents take their children?

No people can have a tour on the bridge anymore

and it is a bit crazy

It has been 4 years since my last cruise & people could go on bridge tour then. I know things change but bridge tours have been aloud for 30 or 40 years or maybe even longer.

Apia, Auckland, Bora Bora and Island of Pines

Apia, Auckland, Bora Bora and Isle of pines

Apia, auckland , bora bora and isle of pines

Hi Jen,
Shark shack is excellent but HQ was not working well. They hoping to improve the area. There’s not enough room & my 2 girls were a bit intimidated by the rowdy kids. My son loved Shark Shark & the girls would have loved to be there as well. They did heaps of fun stuff & he bought home some nice things from there. I didn’t hear much about turtle cove. Only 1 negative comment but there maybe someone with more info.
We loved the cruise although there were a few teething problems. Mix ups in restaraunts & a couple of cabin problems. On the whole it was a great family holiday.
Karen

Thanks Karen, what was the children’s menu like? I have a fussy eater & the other two will eat anything.
We are going on PJ December 2010. One week before christmas.
Looking forward to shark shack.
Do they give parents pagers incase their children want to leave the child center?
I can’t wait to go on PJ. We sail on P Dawn in 4 weeks. First cruise for our kids.

The kids menu had Chicken Nuggets with chips ham burger Cookies Icecream Chefs pick of the day and forget what the others were

Thanks Bob, realling looking forward to not cooking and cleaning for the week. Will Iron the first afternoon / night, all the things in our suitcase that may rinkle a bit. Then I will be set for the cruise to just sit back and relax.
Be totally pampered and looked after by the wonderful staff & crew of P & O Cruise ship.
Thanks Bob for the children’s food.

And that is in the dining room but in the buffet there is hardly good and the buffet hours are Morning 6.30 till 10.30am 11.30 till 3.00am dinner times are 5.30 till 10.30pm

Jen, parent of Bob here, no pagers, my child had crying with sore leg and he was just told to phone cabin but we were at Salt Grill then went to Marcia Hines show after at 9.30 so by time we went to get him he’d fallen asleep 10.30pm – never mind he survived and if it was a real emergency I am sure we would have been found somehow. So dont stress, have a good time and relax. 1st cruise did have problems but they will sort them out, bars and lounges lovely to relax in, good music and entertainment. Disco too small but we dont go there – enough other things to do and get tired by midnight for busy next day if a port – need some sleep. Watch the ocean and lovely sunsets – beautiful.
Laundry and ironing on Deck 10, irons free, $3 for use of washers and dryers each, but who does that on holiday, pack enough clothes and do it when you come home – that is my philosophy!! Food good, restaurant need 1-2hrs to have full menu so book early times, buffet walk in but get table first then just pop back to and fro for bits of meal so not in queues so long – two sides of buffet so pick one that has less people, dont go really in peak time of eating, get up early or go at end of times.
Enjoy and relax, relax, relax. Cruising is best holiday ever.

Thanks Bob for all your comments. This will be my 6th cruise. I don’t go to disco’s either. When on Pacific Sun there was still smoking onboard and I couldn’t stand the smell of smoke in the disco. Could not move, to many people and mainly younger people in there, too loud for me. Enjoyed quiet lounges and Pionao bar.
I don’t wash clothes either, but I did Iron rinkled clothes from my suticase. Only needed to iron once.
This will be first time with children, so a bit anxious to find out about children things onboard. I’m sure they will be fine. I have read the entire cruising with children booklet.
Last cruise I tried everything for food, A La Cart breakfast, lunch & dinner. I also tried buffet for breakfast & lunch.
There was also some young girls, 18 or 19yo who turned up to buffett breakfast in their pj’s.
I went to Purcer office on my way to bed, as everyone was out at disco or lounges.
I agree Cruises are the best holiday ever that’s why we have 2 booked for next year. January 2010 on Dawn & December 2010 on Jewel.

Hi Bob & Karen, Do P & O still to Bridge tour’s ?

No.

Apia, Auckland, Bora Bora and Island of Pines

Hi just wondering if you can buy a bottle of wine onboard and take back to the room?or does everything have to be consumed at the bars

Hi Netty

I’m not sure about bottles but you can take back glasses..

Hubby Terry and I are taking daughter Melody and 9 Yr girl and 15 yr boy. 15 yr said h

cruising on 23 Feb 10 grandson aged 15 said the HQ+ looks boring anyone have info for us on what they do there?

cruised on the jewel and was very disappointed with the staff and what they had to do on board ,so I would like to know were do I write to

Hi everyone – hubby and I travelled on the maiden voyage and had both positive and negative views. After 18 cruises we felt qualified to pass comment on this ship. Our cabin (window cabin) was one of the biggest we have encountered, (the Dawn Princess (Balcony) 5 star ship was much smaller). The Plantation Bistro was a bit of a disappointment food wise, with a bit repeatative menus, just read you could purchase chips!!! didn’t see that advertised in the paper anywhere! The Restaurant, whilst lovely, took ages to get served, but I preferred the food there. I didn’t like the idea of not getting receipts for all purchases, (first time ever), and the final account was never received, (which is usually put under the door the last evening before disembarkation). I thought the drinks (except wine) were reasonable, and I would recommend the Midori Splice if anybody likes cocktails. I had to laugh at brekkie each morning in the Bistro, there was one chef to cook your eggs!! hence a queue. All in all, I would say a few problems, that hopefully will be sorted out before our next cruise 14 Feb to celebrate my 70th birthday!! Regards to everyone, and please enjoy the positives of the ship, Maureen & Bryan

Good to hear a genuine report on the Jewel. Where have all the other 190 comments gone as I want to book on the Jewel but want to see ALL the reports, not the people who are going, but all the people who have gone.

Just book it and go! You will have a better time if you are prepared to judge it for yourself and not what everyone else has to say!

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