About Me

Hello everyone, My name is Haydn , I live in Caerphilly South Wales with my wife and 2 young sons. I have been in the Travel Industry for just over 23 years now, specializing in cruising for the last 13 years. I have been on a variety of Cruise ships,…

Posted on Apr 21, 2017
My NON cruise holiday this Easter….

I've just come back from a family Easter holiday to Spain, surprisingly not on a cruise this time.  My children are of the age where we have to go away during school holidays. We decided on Benalmadena, Spain as we have been before , its not too far, and the…

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Posted on Mar 30, 2017
My trip on the No.1 rated River Ship……..AMAPRIMA

I've just been lucky enough to experience 02 nights onboard the number 1 rated river ship AMAPrima according to the Berlitz guides.  Thats right the AMAPrima came out top ahead of all the Viking ships (and there are a lot!) so as you can imagine I was very keen to…

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Posted on Mar 16, 2017
Glacier Bay National Park……..

For those of you who have read my previous 3 blogs this the final part of my unforgetable first cruise to Alaska!   The grand finale of the cruise I suppose was our day at Glacier Bay National Park. Princess is one of a select few cruise lines permitted to cruise…

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Posted on Mar 2, 2017
Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau & Skagway….

So here it is part 3 of my trip to Alaska. Please bear in mind the photos on this blog were before iphones, digital cameras etc so I've actually taken a photo of the original developed photo from an album!  How things have changed. Next part of my trip we visited…

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Posted on Feb 16, 2017
My Alaska cruise part 2……

So here it is part 2 of my trip to to Alaska.  I remember it like it was yesterday not nearly 15 years ago, although many people say it’s a once in a lifetime trip , I would love to return. We were going to Ketchikan today.  Ketchikan is known…

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Posted on Feb 2, 2017
My first cruise, and what a cruise……Alaska!

A client of mine asked me the other day which was my favourite cruise destination, and it has to be the very first cruise I did, nearly 15 years ago.  Although I had been selling them for several years , my manager at the time thought it was about time…

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Posted on Jan 19, 2017
Ditch the New Years resolutions!!

Tue 17th Jan, 2017 was..Ditch the New Years Resolutions Day, are you still sticking to yours?  As the clock struck midnight on January 1st, millions of inspired people around the world pledged to honour their New Year's resolutions. But almost 3 weeks in, the commitment has already dwindled. Are you still on track…

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Posted on Jan 5, 2017
New Year…..its diet time!

  Yet again, its a New Year which means its a new diet, Bacon has been replaced with Muesli , chocolate seems to have disappeared and the wine rack is bursting.....with sparkling water!   Did you have an over indulgent Christmas, (honestly, who doesn't), and now your about to go…

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Posted on Dec 21, 2016
A Very Merry Christmas and a Happy Healthy New Year…….

As many of you know last weekend I attended our annual cruise.co conference.  This year for a change it wasn't a mini cruise out of Southampton but a mini cruise out of Liverpool........great for our Northern homeworkers!   For me though it was a little trickier but decided in the…

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Posted on Dec 7, 2016
Adonia is coming home…….and she’s on sale now!

Really good news recently when P&O announced that the much loved Adonia, which left the fleet in 2015, will be making a comeback. I think this is fantastic news as I've had so many P&O customers asking what had happened to her. From June 2017 the Adonia will return to…

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