Golden Princess New Zealand Cruise

Well we are on board Golden Princess! We boarded yesterday in Melbourne on a very hot day. Boarding was terrible, lines of people all the way down the road in the hot sun for over an hour just to check in suitcases. Very poorly organised.

Once onboard it was pretty easy to get some lunch in the Horizon Court cafe and then we unpacked until it was time to go to the emergency drill.

Golden Princess is a lovely Grand class ship, 109,000 gross tonnes. We have sailed on the Grand Princess before so this ship is familiar.

Michael was keen to check out the kids club and in fact spent the first night after dinner there meeting other kids.

Dinner was nice. I tried the Curtis Stone Roasted Pork belly which I had heard good things about. It was worth the try. We selected traditional dining on this voyage because I had heard terrible stories about anytime dining and didn't want that to be an issue every day. We were lucky to get our own table for four as requested and have some nice waiters.

We are in a mini suite on deck 9 this time, D310. Check out the photos.

We were greeted with a happy anniversary sign in honour of our 20th wedding anniversary. 

We have a lovely stateroom steward named Daisy. She has been very obliging and helpful already.