Sydney to Brisbane (112 Nights) - Revised Itinerary

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• Introduction
• Map of cruise (zoomable Google map)
• Pre-cruise happenings
• Segment #1 - Sydney to Tangier (Revised itinerary)
• Segment #2 - Tangier to Dover
• Segment #3 - Dover to New York
• Segment #4 - New York to Brisbane
• Other Key Links
• Some More Fun Facts
• Updates
• Reference

Introduction

The adventure begins Thursday, 02 May 2024 Tuesday, 30 April 2024 when we board the Coral Princess in Brisbane Sydney for the start of the 2024 - World Cruise and this blog. The blog will be updated when we find a few spare moments. Please check regularly as multiple blogs might be uploaded on the same day. The same is true for the photos.

This adventure is expected to include:

• 110 112 night Brisbane Sydney to Brisbane world cruise. Cruising over 34,000 35,400 nautical miles (or more than 1.5 times around the world)
• Sailing on the Coral Princess operated by the Princess Cruises line (that's her above). With 2,000 passengers and 895 crew, the ship is 294m long and with 16 decks
• Visiting 47 42 ports in 32 29 countries, including extended visitis to Aqaba (for Petra), Barcelona, Copenhagen, Reykjavik, Cobh (for an Irish Australia Day celebration), Boston and Tahiti.
• Spending a couple of days in Cape Town, Stockholm, New York and Lima
• New destinations include: Bali, the Greek island of Crete (maiden call), France's Corsica, Port Louis in Mauritius, Walvis Bay in Namibia, Mindelo in Cape Verde Islands, Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, Ijmuiden (for Amsterdam) in Netherlands, Warnemunde (for Berain Germany), Visby on Gotland Island (Sweden), Aarhus in Denmark (maiden call), Kristiansand in Norway, Le Havre in France, Edinburgh in Scotland (maiden call), two additional new ports in Iceland, Bar Harbor (Maine, USA), and hopefully this time Easter Island
• Access to over 27 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including Old and New Towns of Edinburgh, Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Pampas de Jumana (Pisco), The Statue of Liberty (New York) and Rapa Nui National Park (Easter Island)

Pre-cruise Happenings

Segment #1 – Sydney to Tangier

Segment #2 – Tangier to Dover

Segment #3 – Dover to New York

Segment #4 – New York to Brisbane

Other key links:

• Just the photos:
• Segment #1 - Sydney to Tangier (Revised itinerary)
• Segment #2 - Tangier to Dover
• Segment #3 - Dover to New York
• Segment #4 - New York to Brisbane
• Pre-cruise photos
• Full list of blog pages
• List of videos:
• Great Australian Bight (04 May 2024 - 33 sec)
• Stockholm sail-away timelapse - bow view (19 June - 3:04 min)
• Stockholm sail-away timelapse - starboard view (19 June - 2:21 min)
• New York sail-away timelapse (15 July - 2:15 min)
• Key West sail-away timelapse (17 July - 26 sec)
• Panama Canal transit timelapse (20 July - 3:32 min)
• Self-guided walking tours (with KMZ map files):
• Mindelo, Cape Verde
• Ghent, Belgium
• Warnemunde & Rostock, Germany
• Helsinki, Finland
• Visby, Sweden

This trip is on the Coral Princess. Click to open a new tab of the current ship's bridge cam. The ship's current location is available on Vessel Finder and Sea Scanner. A recent view of the ship's bridge cam:

Some more fun facts about our 2024 World Cruise

Crossing 3 4 oceans and at least 25 9 seas, including:

• Pacific Ocean (north and south)
• Indian Ocean
• Atlantic Ocean (north and south) “The Pond”
• Mediterranean Sea
• Baltic Sea
• Caribbean Sea - "Order of the Spanish Main"
• Tasman Sea - "Crossing the Ditch"

Through at least 24 16 gulfs, straits, fjords and channels, including:

• Gulf of Aden (aka "Pirate Alley")
• Strait of Gibraltar - "Order of the Rock"
• English Channel
• Fjords: Eyjafjörður and Ísafjarðardjúp in Iceland - first time for both of these fjords

Into at least 22 25 canals, rivers, lakes, bays and harbours, including:

• Suez Canal plus Great Bitter Lake - "Safari to Suez"
• Panama Canal plus Gatun Lake - "Order of the Ditch"
• Brisbane and Hudson Rivers
• Sydney Harbour

Crossing five different major invisible lines:

• Tropic of Capricorn
• Equator crossing (twice) - "Shellback"
• Tropic of Cancer (twice) - "Ducking and shaving"
• Prime meridian (three times)
• International Date Line – westward for the "Domain of the Golden Dragon"

We will also be:

• visiting Cobh for their wonderful Australia Day party
• returning to Halifax for the "Order of the Good Time"
• completing a third continuous lap around the world - "Order of Magellan"

Updates

07 Feb 2024: With just 85 days to go, there was a major itinerary change annouced by Princess today:

Based on the current security environment and future uncertainties in this area of the world, we have made the difficult decision to reroute this cruise to bypass the Red Sea and surrounding region, including transit of the Suez Canal.

As a result, you will now embark two days earlier than originally scheduled and in a different port — in Sydney on Tuesday, 30 April, instead of in Brisbane on Thursday, 2 May.

In addition, we will no longer visit Asia, the Middle East, or the Mediterranean. Instead, after leaving Sydney we will travel to Fremantle then on to South Africa and up the west coast of Africa, exploring one-of-a-kind destinations along the way. From there we will resume our schedule in Tangier.

Princess will fly us down to Sydney and we will have two extra nights on-board at no cost (now 112 nights). In addition, they have been very generous and have offered a Future Cruise Credit of 15% of the cruise fare and $750 each onboard credit.

30 Jan 2024: The following was reported in today's press: MIAMI, Jan. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) is committed to the safety and well-being of its guests and crew and has been actively monitoring the situation in the Red Sea and surrounding region. Given recent developments and in close consultation with global security experts and government authorities, the Company has made the decision to reroute itineraries for 12 ships across seven brands, which were scheduled to transit the Red Sea through May 2024. This World Cruise on the Coral Princess is one of the 12 ships.

In another news release, the company advised that the itinerary for the upcoming world cruise on the Coral Princess is currently being “re-worked” and expected in three days.

14 Dec 2023: Final payment for this cruise was made today. After the challenges of the past few years, it's now very real. Fingers crossed we'll be able to cruise the Red Sea (due to attacks from Houthi militants in Yemen). Only 140 days to go...

01 Feb 2023: The two-day visit to St. Petersburg, Russia has been cancelled. It has been replaced by an extra day in Stockholm (now cruising to the port near the city centre) and adding a call to Visby, Sweden on the island of Gotland. That's very good news.

10 Nov 2021: Our expected 107-night 2022 World Cruise was cancelled due to Australian COVID-19 restrictions. Princess offered to transfer to the 110-night 2024 World Cruise on the Coral Princess for the same price and we accepted. Just over 900 days until embarkation...

15 Sep 2020: Today we booked the 2022 World Cruise on the Coral Princess - only 613 days until embarkation. The adventure begins 20 May 2022 when we board the Coral Princess in Brisbane. Note: Little did we know it would be changed to the 2024 World Cruise from Brisbane. That's 1,326 days (or 3 years, 7 months, 18 days) between booking and the new embarkation - a serious countdown!

Reference:

Welcome from David and Lyn.

The format of our site is in three parts:

1. Blog server - our day-to-day travel blogs (this website)
2. Photo server - some of our key photos
3. YouTube channel - our videos (many linked directly from our blogs)

The site includes hundreds of searchable travel blogs. Some of our longer trips are listed below. 

General travel

• Bridge cams - Princess
• Bridge cams - P&O (Currently disabled)
• Unofficial Travel Awards
• Equator Crossings
• International Date Line

About

• David
• The thalassophile (lover of the sea)
• The presenter
• The photographer
• The vexillophile (flags)
• The musician - Uke resources
• Lyn
• Countries visited: #1 to #25 | #26 to #50 | #51 to #75 | #76 to #100 | #101+
• Summary of cruises - Pre COVID-19 / Post COVID-19 

Thank you for visiting our website.

Best regards

David and Lyn
e-mail: brizzy@outlook.com.au

Cruise countdown

2025 World Cruise Blog Starting Page

2024 World Cruise Blog Starting Page

Links to major adventures
2024 - World Cruise on the Coral Princess Blog - Apr 2024 to Aug 2024 Photos Segment #1: Sydney to Tangier - 35 Days Segment #2: Tangier to Dover (via Baltic) - 21 Days Segment #3: Dover to New York - 18 Days Segment #4: New York to Brisbane - 38 Days
2020 – Indian Ocean & South Africa Odyssey + Southern Australia Explorer Blog - Jan 2020 to Mar 2020 Photos
2019 - Hawaii, Tahiti and South Pacific cruise on the Sea Princess
Blog - Aug 2019 to Oct 2019 Photos
2018 - World Cruise on the Sea Princess
Blog - Jun 2018 to Sept 2018
Photos Segment #1: Brisbane to Dubai - 19 Days Segment #2: Dubai to London - 30 Days Segment #3: London to New York - 20 Days Segment #4: New York to Brisbane - 37 Days
2017 - Cherry Blossom cruise (a.k.a. China - Japan cruise)
Blog - March 2017 to April 2017 Photos
2016 - World Cruise on the Sea Princess
Blog - May 2016 to Aug 2016
Photos Segment #1: Sydney to Dubai – 20 Days Segment #2: Dubai to London – 35 Days Segment #3: London to New York – 11 Days Segment #4: New York to Sydney – 38 Days Home Leg: Sydney to Brisbane – 2 Days
2015 - Hawaii, Tahiti and South Pacific cruise on the Sun Princess
Blog - Jul. 2015 to Aug. 2015 Photos
2014 - South East Asia on the MV Voyager
Blog - Feb. 2014 to Mar. 2014
Photos Leg #1 Treasures of Asia Leg #2 Colours of the Indian Ocean
2012 - Caribbean cruise on the MV Voyager
Blog (by Lyn) - Nov 2012 to Jan 2013
Photos (by David and Lyn) Leg #1 Voyage to the Caribbean Leg #2 Caribbean Gems Leg #3 A Tapestry of Central America
2011 – Far East cruise on the MV Discovery
Blog (by David) - Dec 2011 to Feb 2012
Photos (by David) Leg #1 Treasures of the Orient and Vietnam Leg #2 Empires of the Sun Leg #3 South East Asia and Australia
2010 - Caribbean cruise on the MV Discovery
Blog (by David) - Nov 2010 to Jan 2011
Photos (by David)  Leg #1 Discovery of the New World Leg #2 Colonial Trails of the Caribbean Leg #3 Tales of the Old Spanish Main
2009 - Grand Voyage of Discovery from Mumbai (India) to London on the MV Discovery
Blog (by David) - Mar 2009 to May 2009
Photos (by David) Leg #1 India and The Persian Gulf Leg #2 Red Sea and Eastern Mediterranean Leg #3 Black Sea, Turkey and Greek Isles Leg #4 European - mainly the Mediterranean

Monday, 22 July 2024
As we have visited Manta a few times before, today was all about relaxing.

The shuttle from the ship dropped us off at the new cruise terminal.

David and Kevin visited the Museo del Banco Central … showcasing valuable artifacts from the pre-Columbian Manta culture (some 1550 BC), while Lyn enjoyed some “me” time at the new Mall del Pacifico shopping centre.

  

The traffic was crazy along the main road, and so was one of Manta's locals … a man juggling three machetes in front of the cars stopped at the traffic lights. What a way to earn a living!

We had a quick bite to eat at the food court before heading to Playa Murcielago beach, which is located next to the new cruise terminal. There’s plenty of snack bars, restaurants and umbrella rental spots along the strip.

  

Time for the mandatory lunch time beer at the La Dolce Vita (meaning: sweet life; the good life perceived as one of physical pleasure and self-indulgence).

A very relaxing afternoon enjoying the ocean views and environment.

For more photos / album slideshow:

Reference:

• Past blogs: 22 Jan. 2013; 30 July 2016; 26 August 2018
• Wikipedia: Manta, Ecuador
• Wikitravel: Manta, Ecuador

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