All Aboard with Alexander

Since the dawn of mass market cruising and maybe even before there have been regular stories about onboard sickness. It has become something that cruisers and cruiseline staff alike have to live with. Last year, 2017 was a bit of a nadir for cruiseline hygiene and a 10 year high…

Bangkok is one of my favourite and most visited cities (I've been 4 times now), so its worth a blog! It wasn't always that way for me, I didn't like it the first time I went I have to say. This was after travelling through Singapore and Malaysia to get there…

Last year I travelled to Copenhagen with one of my friends and found a very modern city with a whole load of history to go with it. Its a city that a lot of cruises go from and also visit so I thought it was worth doing a bit of…

So its not long now until Iona is finally on sale after much speculation about the name (some said Canberra would be making a comeback and so on). With drinks packages on P&O on the horizon potentially and them going gratuities free as well to match up with NCL and…

We set  out for our little family summer holiday at the start of last week and in the absence of a passport for my youngest we kept it simple and headed for South Wales for some camping. Unfortunately the weather took a turn for the worst as we headed away…

I finished off my last blog talking about Beijing, Shanghai, Xian and Hangzhou but I've also been to some other amazing places in China. In this part 2 I will talk about my experiences in Guilin and Kunming. Both cities are inland and not easily reachable by cruise but would…

Travelling in China is a bit like travelling in Australia in that you do not really comprehend how big it is until you actually get there and are thinking about going from one place to the next. The main difference between Australia and China is that Australians speak English, for…

With Englands success so far in the world cup, for some it could throw up an inconvenient dilemma. What if I am on holiday or more specifically on a cruise when a game is on? Ive had this dilemma before myself as I was due to go on a Royal…

  Its been some years since I passed through Siem Reap on one of my many trips around South East Asia but it is still something I think back to and reminisce about such was the effect it had on me. From someone who has been around most of South East…

I've recently been on a cruise on Independence of the Seas and was wowed by all the new ship features on board.  I tried out the laser tag and the virtual reality bungee trampoline but that's not forgetting the rock climbing wall, the flowrider surf simulator, the onboard escape room…