Cruise News You Can Use! Royal leaves passengers, Digital Debark, Cruise lines leave Melbourne!
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several guests booked a guaranteed stateroom and showed up in Brisbane the day of departure we're standing in line to check in find out what room they got and unfortunately instead of getting a room they got a letter uh basically stating sorry we're over booked and we don't have any room for you
I would say small chance but it you know as these passengers found out in Brisbane a real chance
this is a an attempt to uh smooth that process out so right now you know you have to go down to um um Guest Services area and pick up your luggage tags and then basically sit around and wait you know until your you know your group number is called
so starting in 2025 neither of those Cruise Lines neither princess nor kunard will sale into or out of Melbourne Australia uh they say the decision was made due to the ports Victoria recent hike in Port charges
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Imagine booking a guaranteed stateroom, heading to the Brisbane port on departure day, and receiving a form letter from Royal Caribbean stating "sorry we are overbooked and don't have room for you. In other news, Carnival is testing a new Digital Debark system. Using an app, passengers choosing to place luggage outside their room the night before can select a debarkation time and number of tags needed. Finally, citing recent fee hikes at Ports Victoria, both Princess and Cunard will stop sailing in/out of Melbourne starting in 2025.