Nautical Nik

  So the cruise you booked all those months before is finally approaching and you can't think about anything else, then all of a sudden you realise that you have not received anything at all from your cruise agent since you made the booking, you start to sweat, is my…

Some of you might have seen the latest news story about the passenger who missed her ship because she was late for boarding, Oh dear how unfortunate, sorry but I have no sympathy for her, yes her children were still on board with other family members, and yes it would of…

  UPDATED So you are fed up with the cruise lines automatically adding your tips to your onboard account, OK I take that as a yes. Follow this rule and should be fine When you board your ship, make sure your first port of call is the reception desk, tell…

So if there is one job that takes up most of my time it would be these god forbidden Cruise Personalisers, please someone tell me who actually sets these up, why is it every single cruise line makes these so NOT user friendly. I am sure there is a much…

Ok I know you would think this was obvious enough, but you would be surprised how many people forget to check their passport and visa's for their upcoming cruise. Remember you will be travelling outside of the UK, that's the first thing to make a note of, secondly check to…

  This is a subject that really gets on my nerves, no not the wheel chair users themselves but the cruise lines that say they are wheel chair friendly, because lets face it, are the cruise lines really wheel chair friendly? Yes they offer wheel chair accessible cabins and most…

So apparently the city of Liverpool has finally won it's right to have a new cruise terminal, this has been an ongoing saga for way too long for my liking, do the cruise lines think that most of the cruising population live in the South Of England, well you would…

So how things have changed since I joined my first cruise in Puerto Rico, it was the NCL Windward weighing in at about 56,000 tons, when I first looked up at it I was astounded how big it was, I found myself getting lost for the first 2 weeks of…

WOW What is this world coming too, I remember as a boy growing up thinking about all the wonderful exotic places I thought I would never be able to experience, they all seemed so far away. Then slowly the airline industry took off and these exotic places seemed just a…

If like me you really do not like flying then maybe you should stop reading now, I have been lucky enough to have travelled the world, and I mean literally, working on cruise ships took me all over the place and unfortunately most places I needed to pick up a…