Sydney (Australia) Cruise Reviews

Over a year and half in planning with another couple, we booked the Australian Wilds & Beyond (OCY200303-17), going from Sydney to Singapore on Crystal Serenity through our travel agent. We opted to book our own ...

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Sail Date March 2020

RobD777

1 Review Written

Not as good as expected

Explorer Dream

We got a twin ocean view cabin for about $98/nite pp which was cheap for a 7 night Tasmania cruise from Sydney. Embarkation was relatively smooth - much better than P&O's amateurish efforts. Dream Cruises come from ...

Sail Date February 2020

ThriftyDrifting

1 Review Written

Cruising into the “New World”

Voyager of the Seas

As avid cruisers, we had a world trip organised from Feb-Oct 2020, which includes 7 cruises. We even started up our own blog for the trip thriftydrifting.com . A week before our first cruise was to depart our home ...

Sail Date February 2020

essex traveller

1 Review Written

3 Helpful Votes

Destination good, ship poor

Ruby Princess

Chosen because of its destination. New Zealand. First impression. The ship was big. Cabin was very comfortable. Nice touch with floor lights when using the bathroom at night. Plenty of hanging space and ...

Sail Date February 2020

dfriise48

4 Reviews Written

12 Helpful Votes

Holland America makes the best of COVID outbreak

Maasdam

My wife and I booked these back to back to back cruises aboard the Maasdam to avoid flying home from an extended trip to SE Asia and Australia. It was also meant to give us an opportunity to visit numerous ports in ...

Sail Date February 2020

Stephrharris

1 Review Written

1 Helpful Vote

A Huge Disappointmemnt

Noordam

We chose this cruise because we had heard good things about Holland America and it was going to places we wanted to visit. We have been on many cruises before always using Cunard, Celebrity and Royal Caribbean in ...

Sail Date February 2020

alfiebarney

1 Review Written

1 Helpful Vote

Terrible experience - Money taken from my account on return from cruise

Noordam

What was meant to be a holiday of a lifetime was spoilt by choosing Holland America as our cruise line. We were on a 15 night cruise starting from Sydney on February 26th. Although this ship was refurb the only ...

Sail Date February 2020

mikluyn

1 Review Written

4 Helpful Votes

The cruise to turn us off cruising forever!

Carnival Splendor

This was our 16th cruise... Complaints to Carnival Splendor – Moreton Island Cruise Jan 16th- 20th 2020. • Casino Bar. On Friday returning to the casino after being there several hours the night before, ...

Sail Date January 2020

stjohnbeachlover

6 Reviews Written

18 Helpful Votes

A cruise I will always remember!

Norwegian Jewel

This cruise left Sydney at the end of February when the coronavirus was just getting started and had not really impacted most countries. There were less than 30 cases in Australia and less than 100 in the United ...

Sail Date February 2020

Fran from Australia

3 Reviews Written

12 Helpful Votes

Beautiful ship - exceeded expectations

We chose this cruise at the last minute due to changes with our original plans and port restrictions in Singapore and Hong Kong. We decided to stick close to Australia/New Zealand. The Queen Elizabeth is a ...

Sail Date March 2020

WESTEAST

4 Reviews Written

6 Helpful Votes

Splendid cruise

Regatta

Our cruise was wonderful and though the ship had challenges out of their control (previous cruise had GI case and then, on board more GI cases) which necessitated a deep clean before embarking which delayed everyone ...

Sail Date February 2020

JMW43

1 Review Written

1 Helpful Vote

Impressed with general organisation and especially cleanliness

We were worried about the size of this ship being the biggest we had been on and it had a lot of stuff that we didn't need like bumper cars, surfing, trapeze etc.but it was easy to avoid them and enjoy the rest of ...

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Sail Date February 2020

Traveller01

6 Reviews Written

68 Helpful Votes

White Glove Service

I had never been on a curnard cruise before and have been put off by rumours that they are quite formal cruises. However I booked the cruise just a couple of days out before embarktation at a ridiculous price. So ...

Sail Date March 2020

Afloatalot

1 Review Written

3 Helpful Votes

Very enjoyable cruise

We were booked for 11 nights, 12 days for a round trip Australia to New Zealand. We were supposed to stop along the way at Mystery Island and New Caledonia before reaching NZ. However combination of a tropical ...

Sail Date March 2020

Astro Boy

25 Reviews Written

47 Helpful Votes

11 night cruise in 6 nights to nowhere.

First time on Ovation ( reason we booked ), so mainly went for the ride, which strangely turned out that way. We journeyed to tip of New Zealand, turned around and came back to Sydney due to Covid 19 problems ...

Sail Date March 2020

Astro Boy

25 Reviews Written

47 Helpful Votes

10 nights to the Islands

Carnival Splendor

Best to just do in point form. Most of other reviews I have read are all true. Bad points. Ship has strangest decor like the Spirit and Legend, different lets say. Entertainment started out good, but ...

Sail Date March 2020

JAC646

1 Review Written

Overpriced and Noisy

Voyager of the Seas

My Wife and I had time off organised and we hadn't been on a cruse since we were both 19, so this was our chance to to try cruising again. Ports of call were out of Royal Caribbean's control, due to Covid-19. My ...

Sail Date March 2020

ozpen

2 Reviews Written

8 Helpful Votes

Amazing cruise

We chose this cruise because of the Ship as we have always wanted to sail out of beautiful Sydney Harbour and back in again. The destination wasn't as important as the Ship but we did enjoy New Zealand and the ...

Sail Date February 2020

BOBBYDOG

3 Reviews Written

18 Helpful Votes

Lack of hand sanitation & many other things

Carnival Splendor

Close to home, part of a group we have travelled on many times (Princess, Cunard, P & O International & Holland America), but this was all so different. Before we left we received an email that stated there would ...

Sail Date March 2020

ubu62

2 Reviews Written

11 Helpful Votes

Glad I was on for only 6 days

Booked this on board QM2 when the QE's Asian itineraries were all scrapped. Crazy cheap price made this unmissable. Compared to the QM2 this is the inferior ship in almost every single area. The vaunted ...

Sail Date March 2020

Patthecruiser

9 Reviews Written

27 Helpful Votes

Could not have been a nicer cruise

Majestic Princess

Embarkation was a breeze and no wait really whatsoever. Sydney port is congested but we got through it very fast. We were booked in a Mini Suite on this Royal Class ship and found it to be in perfect order. They ...

Sail Date November 2019

Insanityx4

7 Reviews Written

37 Helpful Votes

Magical Mystery Cruise

Viking Sun

If I could rate Viking with a 10 star review, I would. We were on the 30 day Australia, Indonesia, Asia leg of the Ultimate World Cruise. When we signed up for the cruise we were worried about wildfires, volcanoes, ...

Sail Date February 2020

Tess27

1 Review Written

4 Helpful Votes

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