Emily's Cruise Essentials

This week saw the children going back to school and I don't know about you but I'm a creature of habit and love routine. The summer holidays are too long even to the point when I feel the children need to go back. I can remember when I was younger…

  It's always nice to spend 'quality time' with the family and I have just returned from an eleven night holiday to Menorca. This was my first visit to the Balearic Islands and it didn't disappoint. It was everything I could hope for an more. It was really picturesque and…

As you are reading this I will be sunning myself on the glorious beaches of Menorca. This year we decided to go aboard mainly for two reasons: 1- Guaranteed sunshine 2- Trying to break up the seven week holiday with something exciting top do This time last year we went…

  There never seem's to be a week that goes by without it being reported in  the media of an incident involving drink passengers on aircraft's. This week in Cruise Bulletin there was a piece on whether airports should ban alcohol. This is a taboo (sorry couldn't resist) subject. Quite…

On my recent trip on the fabulous Carnival Vista I was lucky to experience a few of the speciality restaurants. These come at a small supplement but is definitely worth trying.  It is hard to pick a favourite as they are all different and equally as good as each other.…

Stylish, Bright, Slick and Fun- these are just a few words I would use to describe the new Carnival Vista. I have recently returned from a four night stay on Carnivals newest ship - and it didn't disappoint. Our first glimpse of it was on approach to landing at Heraklion…

    It is one of those grey areas that seems to raise it's ugly head time and time again. If you are a regular cruiser you know that a few of the cruise companies give you the option to pre pay your gratuities, and sometimes this can prove quote…

  It has been announced recently that Thomson's are expanding their fleet once again and buying a second ship from Royal Caribbean. This time Royal Caribbean are saying goodbye to Legend of the Seas which they have owned since it was launched back in May 1995. Their ever expanding fleet…

Carnival Vista This year has really been an exciting time for new cruise ships. There has been the two Royals- Ovation and Harmony. A few of my colleagues were lucky enough to experience it first hand and stay a couple of nights on board. There were that many of them…

48 Hours Of Summer Over the past month we really have been experiencing different types of weather around the country. It really is hard to believe just a few weeks ago snow was spotted in the North.  So this weekend was a real treat, temperatures were saoring all over the…