NCL had a $2 deposit offer so what's a girl to do!? We'd been eyeing off another NZ cruise wanting to be able to do the South Island so when this offer appeared in our inbox we clicked on over to OzCruising and started looking.
We've booked a 12 night NZ cruise on the Norwegian Jewel leaving 18 January 2019 and getting back 30 January 2019. It departs from Sydney so we'll have to work out what we're going to do either fly or train and whether or not an over night stay is needed. Plenty of time to think about that.
The ship looks pretty amazing with so many restaurants and bars. This ship didn't have a good run last year when it was out here as it broke down and had to cancel a cruise or two, hopefully all of this has been sorted for her return to Oz!
We've booked a triple Balcony cabin as dad is coming along this time. I think I'll be relegated to a sofa bed, hope it's comfy! It's not the cheapest cruise we've done, actually it is the most expensive. The fares, well the first two fares, include the premium drinks package so hopefully that will mean we won't have a bill at the end of our cruise. We generally don't shop much on cruises so at least this way we will have already paid for our drinks and it includes all drinks except for top shelf so it'll be nice to be able to go to the cafe and have a tea without having to pay. It'll be a good way to try some cocktails that we probably wouldn't normally try! Seeing as it's just two of us with the drinks package we'll probably just share as we certainly can't justify getting another drink package, I think they're about $1700! That's a LOT of drink!
Seeing as our cruise isn't for another 9 months it gives us time to save up and to decide what, if anything, we want to do at each of the ports. We might bungy off the Auckland Bridge seeing as mum loved climbing it so much the last time we were there! I don't think mum would get off the ship if I booked that, ha ha.
Something to look forward to that's for certain, makes going into work every day a bit more worthwhile when you're looking forward to something. And after the 3 night cruise we just did I know how having a break from the every day makes a world of difference and is certainly something we all need to do and a cruise is one of the best ways we know of to recharge our batteries and relax.
So only about 270 days and we'll be sipping our first cocktail while sailing out of Sydney Harbour, the countdown begins!
