Ocean Discovery – Fremantle, Broome & Darwin

About this cruise

A trip this long changes your rhythm entirely, and that's very much the point. 15 nights from Fremantle on May 17, 2027, visiting Broome WA, Darwin, Cairns, Willis Island and Brisbane. You get off in Brisbane, which is a good excuse to tack on a few days on land. 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 9 hours in each port, which is enough for an excursion, lunch, and some wandering around on your own. When you're not ashore, Grand Princess has 10 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 May departure catches that sweet window of warm-enough weather before the summer rush. 15 nights of not thinking about anything except where to eat next. That's the pitch.