Friday, January 4, 2019

Pacific Princess World Cruise - 2019

January 4
Our 3rd “Once in a Lifetime World Cruise”. (no, that doesn't get old) To date we have been to all 7 continents including 82 countries visited together and IF we hit all countries on this WC it will be 90 countries. 38 States so far. We hope to hit the rest of the States after we return next year.
So far, 41 cruises and 484 days at sea…..
We look forward to our new adventure! 
Looking forward to seeing friends we have met on prior cruises and looking forward to meeting new friends and sadly missing old friends that had to cancel this cruise. (way too many)


We are packed and ready to go! I will post on sea days as I can and will include photo links since internet is slow and costly. As a reminder, please be kind with typos, misspellings or outright mistakes I make, this is just my personal journal to keep track of our travels and for friends and family to follow along. I don't profess that it is interesting or great writing. I will add photos once I return home, but will include the links as I get them uploaded. 


The Pacific Princess, at 30,277-tons and 680-passengers was acquired in 2002 from now-defunct Renaissance Cruises and are by far the smallest ships in Princess' fleet. The size of the ship affords access into some smaller cruise ports without use of a tender. (though there are always a few tender ports)


from our 2017 WC embarkation 

Here is the deck plan of the ship:
Deck 3 (tender deck)
Deck 4 Medical center, shore excursion desk, passenger services
Deck 5 Cabaret Lounge, bar, casino, photo gallery, shops, future cruise desk, club bar, club restaurant
Deck 5 all cabins
Deck 7 laundry - our cabin is on this deck
Deck 8 all cabins
Deck 9 spa, steam rooms, beauty salon, fitness center, internet café, pool bar & pool & hot tubs, bandstand, BBQ, pizza, Panorama buffet.
Deck 10 Pacific Lounge, dance floor & stage, jogging track, library, Sabatinis and Sterling Steakhouse, bar
Deck 11 Sun Deck, shuffleboard, golf practice cage
map of the cruise

Here is our Pacific Princess 2019 World Cruise Itinerary - The ports in red are new for us:
Sat, Jan 5
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
04:00 PM
Sun, Jan 6
At Sea
Mon, Jan 7
At Sea
Tue, Jan 8
Cartagena, Colombia
10:00 AM
10:00 PM
Wed, Jan 9
At Sea
Thu, Jan 10
Panama Canal (Scenic Cruising) Panama
05:00 AM
04:30 PM
Fri, Jan 11
At Sea
Sat, Jan 12
07:00 AM
07:00 PM
Sun, Jan 13
At Sea
Mon, Jan 14
At Sea
Tue, Jan 15
Huatulco, Mexico
07:00 AM
03:00 PM
Wed, Jan 16
At Sea
Thu, Jan 17
07:00 AM
03:00 PM
Fri, Jan 18
At Sea
Sat, Jan 19
At Sea
Sun, Jan 20
Los Angeles, California
08:00 AM
08:00 PM
Mon, Jan 21
At Sea
Tue, Jan 22
At Sea
Wed, Jan 23
At Sea
Thu, Jan 24
At Sea
Fri, Jan 25
At Sea
Sat, Jan 26
Honolulu, Hawaii
07:00 AM
11:00 PM
Sun, Jan 27
07:00 AM
06:00 PM
Mon, Jan 28
At Sea
Tue, Jan 29
At Sea
Wed, Jan 30
At Sea
Thu, Jan 31
At Sea
Fri, Feb 1
At Sea
Sat, Feb 2
Tahiti (Papeete), French Polynesia
09:00 AM
11:00 PM
Sun, Feb 3
07:00 AM
 05:00 PM
Mon, Feb 4
Raiatea, French Polynesia - 5:00 PM arrival Feb 3
overnight
06:00 PM
Tue, Feb 5
At Sea
Wed, Feb 6
Cross International Date Line (no Feb 7 for us)
12:00 PM
01:00 PM
Fri, Feb 8
At Sea
Sat, Feb 9
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
07:00 AM
04:00 PM
Sun, Feb 10
At Sea
Mon, Feb 11
At Sea
Tue, Feb 12
Auckland, New Zealand
09:00 AM
11:00 PM
Wed, Feb 13
At Sea
Thu, Feb 14
At Sea
Fri, Feb 15
Dunedin (Port Chalmers), New Zealand
08:00 AM
06:00 PM
Sat, Feb 16
Stewart Island, New Zealand – tender port
07:00 AM
04:30 PM
Sun, Feb 17
At Sea
Mon, Feb 18
At Sea
Tue, Feb 19
Sydney, Australia
09:30 AM
10:00 PM
Wed, Feb 20
At Sea
Thu, Feb 21
At Sea
Fri, Feb 22
At Sea
Sat, Feb 23
Cairns, Australia
07:00 AM
10:00 PM
Sun, Feb 24
At Sea
Mon, Feb 25
At Sea
Tue, Feb 26
At Sea
Wed, Feb 27
Darwin, Australia
07:00 AM
10:00 PM
Thu, Feb 28
At Sea
Fri, Mar 1
At Sea
Sat, Mar 2
Komodo Island, Indonesia tender port
07:00 AM
05:00 PM
Sun, Mar 3
At Sea
Mon, Mar 4
At Sea
Tue, Mar 5
Singapore
12:00 PM
Wed, Mar 6
Singapore
02:00 PM
Thu, Mar 7
Kuala Lumpur (Port Kelang), Malaysia
07:00 AM
07:00 PM
Fri, Mar 8
Langkawi, Malaysia
10:00 AM
08:00 PM
Sat, Mar 9
Phuket, Thailand
08:00 AM
08:00 PM
Sun, Mar 10
At Sea
Mon, Mar 11
At Sea
Tue, Mar 12
At Sea
Wed, Mar 13
Colombo, Sri Lanka
07:00 AM
07:00 PM
Thu, Mar 14
At Sea
Fri, Mar 15
Maldives (Male) – tender port
07:00 AM
06:00 PM
Sat, Mar 16
At Sea
Sun, Mar 17
At Sea
Mon, Mar 18
At Sea
Tue, Mar 19
Seychelles Islands (Mahe)
08:00 AM
10:00 PM
Wed, Mar 20
At Sea
Thu, Mar 21
At Sea
Fri, Mar 22
Nosy Be, Madagascar – tender port
08:00 AM
06:00 PM
Sat, Mar 23
At Sea
Sun, Mar 24
At Sea
Mon, Mar 25
Port Louis, Mauritius 
07:00 AM
10:00 PM
Tue, Mar 26
Pointe des Galets, Reunion Island 
07:00 AM
10:00 PM
Wed, Mar 27
At Sea
Thu, Mar 28
At Sea 
Fri, Mar 29
At Sea 
Sat, Mar 30
Durban, South Africa – we will leave the ship to go on safari
Valley of a Thousand Hills & Phezulu Cultural Village before going to the airport to Arathusa Safari Lodge located in the Greater Kruger Park in the Sabi Sands Private Nature Reserve
07:00 AM
05:00 PM
Sun, Mar 31
East London, South Africa (we will miss this port – 2 Game drives & game walk)
11:00 AM
08:00 PM
Mon, Apr 1
2 game drives & game walk  
Tue, Apr 2
Cape Town, South Africa  -final game drive before flying to rejoin the ship
09:00 AM
Wed, Apr 3
Cape Town, South Africa 
Thu, Apr 4
Cape Town, South Africa 
09:00 PM
Fri, Apr 5
At Sea  
Sat, Apr 6
07:00 AM
04:00 PM
Sun, Apr 7
Walvis Bay, Namibia 
09:00 AM
09:00 PM
Mon, Apr 8
At Sea  
Tue, Apr 9
At Sea 
Wed, Apr 10
At Sea 
Thu, Apr 11
08:00 AM
06:00 PM
Fri, Apr 12
At Sea  
Sat, Apr 13
At Sea  
Sun, Apr 14
At Sea 
Mon, Apr 15
At Sea 
Tue, Apr 16
07:00 AM
05:00 PM
Wed, Apr 17
Fortaleza, Brazil 
09:00 AM
07:00 PM
Thu, Apr 18
At Sea  
Fri, Apr 19
At Sea 
Sat, Apr 20
Devil's Island (Isle Royale), French Guiana 
10:00 AM
12:00 PM
Sun, Apr 21
At Sea
Mon, Apr 22
Barbados
08:00 AM
06:00 PM
Tue, Apr 23
Guadeloupe (Point-a-Pitre) 
08:00 AM
06:00 PM
Wed, Apr 24
Marigot, St. Marten 
7:00 AM
5:00 PM
Thu, Apr 25
At Sea  
Fri, Apr 26
At Sea 
Sat, Apr 27
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 

Until next time.....




1 comment:

  1. Loved seeing our home away from home... The itinerary is fabulous! Enjoy all the new places.

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