Richard's Cruise Ramble

The British Foreign office is still at this time advising against travel to most of Egypt, the only parts that people are currently allowed to travel to at this time are Red Sea coastal resorts such as Sharm-el-Sheikh as these are un-affected, you can see what I mean by clicking THIS LINK and viewing…

  I previously blogged in June of this year about the fact that P&O and Cunard had in effect done a "U-turn" on their getaway fares policy allowing cabins with an occupancy of one, three or four to now book on getaway fares departing from 1st September 2013 onwards (you can read…

I was an interesting conversation with one of my clients recently about which cruise line's they had sailed with and who they preferred. It came up in conversation that my clients weren't to keen on Holland America Line so naturally I had to ask why, as I believe them to be a good…

Now with MSC Cruises, in their latest virtual brochure, can join the MSC Club before you have even sailed with them. You would receive your membership card on the first day of your first cruise and be able to get the on-board benefits of being an MSC Club member straight away. You…

I'm now away on annual leave from Friday the 21st June and I will be returning to the office on Monday the 1st July. If you require assistance while I am away please call 0800 408 6200 and one of my colleagues will be happy to assist you.

It's not just the UK that has suffered terrible weather in recent times.  There has been terrible floods across central Europe. Obviously this isn't going to have that much of an impact on ocean cruises but it certainly does on river cruises. I have updated info showing what has been…

On the 30th May 2013 P&O and Cunard released a major amount of sailings for later in 2013 onto their "Getaway" promotion. These new Getaway deals are from sailings beginning  September 2013 to the end of the year. For people that don't know what a Getaway deal is, I will explain... P&O and…

It has to be said that there are some amazing cruise offers this year. A lot of the special late deals offered by cruise line's have some down sides to offset the massive reduction in price.  What makes a good cruise deal really depends on what you want from your…

Carnival Cruise Line have just announced that they will be redeploying their ships away from the UK and Europe in 2014. Carnival have not long ago brought the Legend over to sail from the UK and the Sunshine to sail from Barcelona, but it seems this isn't working out as well…

I have just returned from Southampton, where I was privileged enough to have spent a night on the new Norwegian Breakaway. I had been looking forward to this visit for a long time, I really love visiting ships and I hadn't been on an Norwegian Cruise Line ship before so I was keen…