About Me
My name is Nicola Milligan and I am lucky to be living in the beautiful Market Town of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, with its historic castle and haunting tales of Mother Shipton. I have a husband Stewart and a 16 year old daughter who are both cruise fanatics and a Cocker…
Posted on May 9, 2017
Phuket – oh what a night.
Phuket is the largest island in Thailand so big that you forget it is an island. 49 kms long it has space and a place for all to enjoy. Patong is Phuket's biggest town and is locally known as sin city, where the phrase fun in the sun can mean…
Posted on Apr 25, 2017
Langkawi – port information.
Most cruise ships dock approx 30kms and 20 minutes from the nearest town when calling into Langkawi. Langkawi is known as the Jewel of Andaman Sea, it is an archipelago of 99 islands with an extra 5 revealed at low tide. Although Malaysian there are influences of Thai in its…
Posted on Apr 13, 2017
Wow Singapore is Amazing.
After 26 plus years in travel this was my first visit to the Far East and what an amazing experience. I have booked so many guests over the years and only thought of Singapore as an expensive overnight pre cruise stop over. How wrong was I. For our first night…
Posted on Mar 28, 2017
Excursion in Kuala Lumpur.
When on a cruise most ships dock at Port Klang which can take anything from 45 minutes to over an hour depending on the traffic to reach the City itself. With most places of interest spread about we decided to take an organised excursion with Royal Caribbean. The description was…
Posted on Mar 16, 2017
Mariner of the Seas
Mariner of the Seas is a second generation Voyager Class ship and joined the Royal Caribbean fleet in 2003. 4252 passengers and crew costing $650 million to build she is going into dry dock in Singapore next week for a 10 week refit and will be then homed in China.…
Posted on Feb 27, 2017
Jewels of Asia
Way back in 1996 I could not decide which cruise to do for our honeymoon. Caribbean or Jewels of Southeast Asia. We plumped for Western Caribbean on board Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the Seas. An amazing time was had but we promised we would one day try the Far East.…
Posted on Feb 13, 2017
Mini Cruise ? Taster Cruise.
Cruise Companies do offer itineraries for less than 7 nights. Some call them mini cruise, some taster but whatever you call them do not think they are a waste of time. For the new to cruise market this can be an amazing experience to sample the whole experience. For the…
Posted on Jan 30, 2017
Liverpool revisited.
In an earlier December blog I talked about our Cruise.Co conference on board Fred Olsen's Boudicca from Liverpool's Prince Albert Dock. The dock was opened in 1846 and is listed as the birthplace of passenger cruise lines. Liverpool as a reputation as one of the most desirable ports of call…
Posted on Jan 16, 2017
Costa 5 year Anniversary.
I am sure you can all remember the shocking news and images we all saw back in January 2012. The tragic sinking of Costa Concordia with 4252 guests and crew on board. 32 of these were drowned. Concordia hit rocks and capsized in Italian waters which left us all wondering…
Posted on Jan 2, 2017
Another Year over and a New one just begun.
Yes in the words of John Lennon hello 2017. I do hope you all had a magical Christmas and I wish you all a Very Happy, Prosperous and Healthy New Year. The past month seems a bit of a whirlwind to me with so much happening. Christmas day was a…
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