About Me
Hello there Thank you for taking the time to read my blog and in getting to know more about me My name is Kerry James and I have worked within Travel for the last 19 years. I have worked in different areas within the industry - selling package holidays, around…
Posted on Jan 9, 2015
Unfairness by Royal Caribbean on amending bookings
All cruise lines have different rules with regards to changing a booking, some are fair and will just charge an admin fee and then happy to re-book you at the current days prices and availability, or if you are looking at upgrading others will go back to the prices on…
Posted on Jan 2, 2015
My review of 2014
So 2014 has now well and truly finished and we are now starting into 2015, new years resolutions have probably been broken or in my case not even started - mine is the dreaded diet one again and hopefully this year will see a slimmer me. So for this blog…
Posted on Dec 26, 2014
A refresher in Thomson Cruises
During December as its one of our quieter months within the travel industry we often spend the time having refresher training courses on what each of the various cruise lines have to offer and what makes them different from each other, which then in turn helps us try to match…
Posted on Dec 19, 2014
Queen Mary 2 – a year on
Last weekend saw myself and 119 of my colleagues board the stunning Queen Mary 2 for our annual Christmas conference. For me this was my second time sailing on the Queen Mary 2 and was looking forward to being back on board and seeing if anything had improved since I…
Posted on Dec 12, 2014
How will you spend yours?
Often as an incentive to book early many of the cruise lines will offer you large amounts of on board credit to spend whilst on board their ships. Now as many of you know I normally book late and on a saver fare so never receive any on board credit…
Posted on Dec 5, 2014
My day in Valletta
On my recent cruise on board the stunning MSC Preziosa we had a day in the port of Valletta in Malta. I have been to Malta before but been across the bay in St Julian's Bay and only been into Valletta on day trips so was looking forward to going…
Posted on Nov 28, 2014
Christmas light switch on
On Thursday 27th November saw my home city of Chichester switch the Christmas lights on, the blessing of the Christmas tree and then followed up by a great firework display over the Cathedral. Normally I wouldn't normally bother going to this but my partner seemed quite keen to go this…
Posted on Nov 21, 2014
Behind the Scenes Galley tour
Have you ever wondered what goes on in the galley on a ship? As a cruise geek this is something I always wanted to see but never thought this would be possible. However on my recent cruise on MSC Prezoisa we were invited to go below the passenger decks and…
Posted on Nov 14, 2014
MSC Myths and the truths
I was lucky to have been invited by MSC to have spent 4 days cruising on the MSC Preziosa sailing from Venice to Barcelona, and despite booking many MSC cruises I have to confess I was a bit apprehensive as to what I had heard and read in reviews so…
Posted on Nov 7, 2014
Dinner at Sindhu
Before we boarded our recent cruise on the Azura we had decided we would dine in Sindhu - Atul Kotchar's restaurant which is a Asia-British fusion. We were able to prebook via our cruise personaliser but we decided to wait until we boarded, as throughout the cruise they would rotate…
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