About Me

Hi my name is Erica although most people know me as Betsy which is my work name, welcome to my cruise page. I  have been in the travel industry for coming up to 30 years. I started my career in a small independent travel agent, where I went on work experience and…

Posted on Aug 11, 2017
This would be my worst nightmare.

Picture this ,on a cruise of a lifetime that you had paid a lot of money for you had sailed out of Sydney to Dubai with stops in Melbourne and was just entering the Indian Ocean when suddenly the ship more or less closes down !!!! There would be a…

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Posted on Jul 28, 2017
Wasted food on a cruise ship ?

One questions I always have is how on earth do cruise ships manage the food orders as the never seem to run out of anything ? There is nothing more I like reading in the cruise news than facts of the day , How many bottles of water are consumed…

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Posted on Jul 14, 2017
More firsts at sea for Royal Caribbean

Royal Caribbean Independence of the sea's has to be has to be one of the UK’s favourite cruise ships , it certainly won our customers votes !! The news just last year she was returning to the shores of the uk brought the bookings flooding back in and has carried…

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Posted on Jun 30, 2017
Who has the edge ? Naughty or Nice ?

You may have seen that Celebrity are bringing out a new class of ship to the Ocean next year 'Celebrity Edge ' A ship that changes everything setting a new standard of modern luxury at sea. Well the next big reveal from Celebrity was announced this week in New York.......…

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Posted on Jun 16, 2017
Stick to what you know ?

I have just come back form a lovely little break child free with my husband and our best friends.We went to a place called Los Boliches on the Costa del sol mainland Spain. I haven't stayed in this resort before and having been a travel agent for 27 years I…

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Posted on Jun 2, 2017
Spring break in the sun and the rain….

and the thunder and the lightning. I am just coming to the end of what will of been my first full week off this year and I have certainly welcomed this break.If you read my blog a couple of weeks ago you would of seen that we were on the…

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Posted on May 6, 2017
When is the best time to book ?

This is an interesting question, and I'm sure you will get differing opinions and after being in the business for 27 years I have seen massive changes but this is my opinion of how the market is at present.We have cruises on sale up to 2019 now and the cruise…

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Posted on Apr 21, 2017
It can only happen to me …

Well as a lot of my customers know when I first started my career here at Cruise.co.uk we added a puppy to my family. Since having our little Billy we decided we needed to take him on holidays so we joined our best friends and bought a caravan. Here he…

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Posted on Apr 7, 2017
AMAzing food and accomodation

Carrying on from my first River cruise experience I thought I would share with you my findings on the accommodation and the food on board the AMAPrima . The accommodation I stayed in was a Twin Balcony on Violin deck. The Twin Balconies consist of a French Balcony plus a…

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Posted on Mar 24, 2017
AMAzing my first impressions of River cruising

Well I have just returned from my first ever visit to a River cruise ship. What a way to start!!! I visited the AmaPrima and Ama are rated the highest standard of ships in Europe according to the Berlitz guide. I flew to Amsterdam and we got picked up by…

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