Monsoon Passage – Bali, Darwin & Brisbane

About this cruise

Clear the calendar from November 10, 2026. This one's 13 nights from Singapore, and the route visits Benoa, Darwin, Yorkeys Knob and Brisbane. By the time you're a week in, you'll have completely stopped checking your phone. You wind up in Brisbane, so it's worth planning a night or two there. It starts gently with sea days, so by the time you reach the first port you'll have explored the ship and actually feel on holiday. Big cities, reef snorkelling, and New Zealand's green mountains. Genuinely varied. You get around 12 hours in each port, which is enough for an excursion, lunch, and some wandering around on your own. When you're not ashore, Royal Princess has 11 restaurants on board, which means you could eat somewhere different nearly every night. Longer sailings have a different energy. People relax into it, stop rushing, and start actually talking to each other. A November sailing dodges the peak crowds while the weather is still cooperating. Well timed. Hard to ask for much more than that, honestly.