Better late than never

Greetings cruisers

Yes it’s me again, well most of me, this weather we are experiencing at the moment is magic, better make the most of it, before the summer is officially over again in the next few days.

It seems you guys still continue to book cruises and that makes me happy, many more first time cruisers than ever are jumping on board and finding out for themselves what great value cruising really is.

Anyways back to my point, please please please if you are sailing out of the UK whether it’s Southampton, Tilbury, Dover just do me a favour and either leave from home as early as you can or book a night into a hotel the evening before, I had a customer last week call me from the M3 saying they had been stuck in traffic for 3 hours and had not moved, they were expecting the worst and asked me if I could call the ship to let them know they may be late, unfortunately the ship would not wait and would be sailing on time!. Oh dear, a little later at 15.45 I received another call from my customers, telling me they were 44 miles outside of Southampton and they would try their best to get to the port as soon as possible, bearing in mind the ship was sailing at 16:30. I had already resigned myself to checking flights from London to get them to the first port of call, which happened to be Vigo. Anyways as I had not heard from them, I expected another call from them telling me they were still stuck in traffic………………………………………………………………………………..

Too my surprise around about 17:00 I got a call telling me they had made it on the ship and everything was ok.

Anyway the morale of the story is, give yourself plenty of time, and always expect the worst, better too be too early than too late.

Keep on cruising