I started at Cruise.co.uk back in April 2009. I was new to the travel industry as my previous work was within the mortgage industry, due to the credit crunch (and being made redundant) this wasn't a great industry to be in so I looked for something new which is when…
Celebrity Cruises have always been my favourite cruise line so when I got the opportunity to sail on the Eclipse for 5 nights with work I was very pleased. In the future I will be doing more in depth blogs on the Eclipse to cover different aspects as I can't…
P&O surprised myself and quite a few others with a recent announcement that they would be selling their small adult-only ship the Adonia to Azamara Club Cruises in March 2018. This news is a shame for many reasons. Firstly many people had confirmed future bookings for the Adonia including clients…
I don't think any of us will have missed the recent news of the hurricanes that have swept the Caribbean and Florida. With so much that has gone on and so many parts affected it is hard to keep up. I have managed to find an up to date list…
Royal Caribbean are the cruise kings of special offers, sometimes having multiple special offers running along side or on top of each other. I often joke that Royal Caribbean have more special offers than DFS and that is easily the case. Historically, some of the most popular Royal Caribbean…
Royal Caribbean cruises have brought some changes info effect this month with their on-board booking programmes. The changes I read about are mainly based on the US market and I am struggling to find out how we are effected here. One thing I have read is that Royal Caribbean…
I am just sat here reading reports of a breaking story involving a murder at sea. It is reported that a few nights ago on the Emerald Princess a woman was murdered by her husband whilst sailing on an Alaskan cruise. The reports say that the poor 39 year old…
Many people cruise quite regularly and the majority of cruise lines understand this and have been offering benefits to guests who either book their next cruise on-board or make a deposit to put towards a future booking. Most of the major cruise lines have been running two options, either book…
Last week I sailed with Thomson Cruises on their new TUI Discovery 2 which has been recently acquired by Thomson and was formerly the Royal Caribbean Legend of the Seas. I hadn’t sailed with Thomson before and although I had generally had a very positive response from my clients about…
When my clients are thinking of which cruise to take there are many factors for them to take into account. One factor which some of my clients have brought up from time to time is how the ship looks from the outside. People will often come out with phrases like…
Fred Olsen Cruise lines have just made an announcement that from April 2018 it will be launching it's very first River Cruise program. River Cruising has been growing and growing in popularity in recent years and some other cruise lines have also branched out this way so it seems…