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Moreton Island Bridesmaids Cruise: Day 5 massages, relaxing and official hens night!

Posted on January 13, 2018 by Mel

Today started with two of us having a “pamper package” at the day spa while the other two slept in. We then swapped places after lunch with the other two getting “spa-d” while the morning two had a nap. The day spa package was excellent value considering the usual extortionate pricing – $129 each for two focus massages, a facial, a foot spa and other small things as well.

Lunch today was at Salt Grill which was impossible to get into for dinner, but easy to book for lunch! The cover charge was also slightly less for a lunch booking. The food was amazing!! Lana was happy we finally got a decent dessert 🙂

We had originally booked in to a 3:30pm cocktail mixing class but after some more stuff ups on P&Os end (they changed the time and only booked 3 of us in) I cancelled it. Instead we went to a dance class!!

Dinner was relatively early again (so many people booked it out on day one which was probably why everyone was late to the evacuation drill) but because we had enjoyed an early lunch it was all good. The Dragon Lady is another included meal – this time Asian fusion style and definitely had better service than the Waterfront. We all gave the food a thumbs up.

Tomorrow’s disembarkation starts at 7:30am. Our time slot is 9:25am so we have to be out of the room by 7:45am and head off to eat breakfast and waste some time. This means we planned not to have a big one tonight….in theory…..and then it turned out to be my “official” hens celebration.

We participated in a music suggestion class, a salsa dance class, had dinner at Dragon Lady, watched a musical performance, watched an R rated comedian AND danced to some live music….and still made it to bed just before midnight!!

What a fabulous cruise this has been ❤️

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Moreton Island Bridesmaids Cruise: Day 4 shore visit

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Mel

Today was shore visit day! We booked late tours so slept in until around 9am and then had a late breakfast. We disembarked around 11:15am and it was just a short tender ride over to the island.

Bs auntie and nana came over from Brisbane to say hello to me. Nana Rose met Percy and was a fan.

After some ocean swimming and sunbathing. It was time for shore tours! Our first shore tour was guided snorkelling. The tour idea itself was quite good but unfortunately we got stuck with a selfish family of 24 who refused to be split. So instead of the usual 12, our group had 28 in it! Kinda ruined the fun. I did convince the manager to give us a partial refund despite their “no refunds” policy. The wrecks themselves were amazing, it was just the repeatedly getting kicked in the face that got old fast.

After snorkelling we rested for awhile before the wild dolphins feeding. SO AWESOME! There was canapés and bubbly alongside a really interesting presentation about the wild dolphin family histories in the area. It was then dolphins feeding time!! We fed Echo.

The sunset was also amazing.

After we returned to the ship around 8:40pm, we got ready and headed off the the Bianco White Party for a little bit of dancing and a few drinks.

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Moreton Island Bridesmaids Cruise: Day 2 BOAT TIME!

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Mel

We met up with Tracey just before lunch and headed to the embarkation point. We got lucky and this one leaves from Sydney Harbour rather than White Bay Terminal! Easier to get to and pretty views.

Our room is 5083 and is midship and roomier than we thought it would be for four of us. I have one of the singles, poor Lana drew the short straw and got the top bunk!

After boarding and the mandatory evacuation drill, we headed up to the “adults pool” to hang out and wait to leave. I promptly got sunburnt and we also got delayed by 3hrs from leaving so we went in search of an early dinner (Angelos) before returning to watch the departure through a crazy storm from Deck 12.

We went to the 8pm show performance of “off the charts” and then listened to jazz in the Blue Room until bed time.

Cocktail count: A few on boarding, a few more at the pool, wine at dinner and then a few more afterwards! I really like the toblerones 🙂

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Moreton Island Bridesmaids Cruise: The background

Posted on January 6, 2018 by Mel

At this time last year, B and I went on a P&O cruise to Fraser Island. It was a lovely experience (although he said never again as he felt mildly nauseous for a lot of it) but was very much a “couples” experience. We had couples massages, read in the lounge, slept in, ate in the nice (pricey) restaurants and avoided any party/dancing stuff as that’s not really his vibe. It was really nice, but the focus was definitely on spending quality couple time together.

This time around it’s my bridesmaid cruise!

The backstory: When we do eventually settle on a wedding date and location it’s likely to be a private, personal thing. We are both pretty private people when it comes to all that romantic stuff. We both also have family drama we want to avoid. But I still wanted a way to celebrate with my awesome girlfriends and say “hey, you would totes have been my BMs if we were having a big-ass wedding because you are wonderful” Once I started looking into visiting them all in Perth (I’m in Canberra), airfares in the school holidays, finding dates that worked for us all, ensuring babysitters or partners were available….well, it got complicated fast.

So I said fuck it, let’s go on a cruise! I paid the cruise cost, they paid their airfares to Sydney + spending money. The cruise cost for a 4 person mid range cabin was $3k which is not far off what I would have spent going to Perth! As a bonus, I was also able to pay it off slowly between January and October after putting down a $1 deposit.

Our cruise group consists of myself, Jess, Lana and Tracey. I’ve known Tracey and Jess for around 15 years (yikes!!) and Lana I’ve known for about 8 years now – she also happens to be my nephew’s mama. I’m child-free while the others have children ranging in age from 3 to 22 so they are REALLY looking forward to this!

So – can you guess what our vibe is going to be?

PAAAAAARTY!!! With some relaxation thrown in.

We all have outfits purchased and packed for Gatsby night, the White Party night and another party night. We also have dolphin feeding and wreck snorkelling booked as shore tours on Moreton Island. It’s going to be epic!

After suggestions from supporters and a final participant vote, the official cruise hashtag will be #nomorechoosingmelsgonecruising with #bridesmaidsgonecruising coming in a close second.

Let the celebrations begin!

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