About Me

This is me, Marie Turner. I live in the Beautiful Garden of England that is Kent, with my husband Ben and 3 daughters Megan, Abigail and Ruby. I have been working within the travel industry for the past 20 years, enjoying seeing the world with my young family . I love…

Posted on May 3, 2016
Disney Heros Versus Villians (Drama at sea)

For over 100 years Disney have inspired fairy tales for billions of children. Stories where the Villians do their best to be bad and the Heros save the day, and this week the Disney Fantasy was embroiled in a very real good versus bad situation. So in true story book fashion let…

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Posted on Apr 19, 2016
For the love of cake!

  Over the years when reading my blogs you will have seen me mention a few times about my hobby of dabbling in baking and cake decorating. Whilst my skills are sometimes "trial n error" and mostly self taught I rarely turn down a opportunity to try a new recipe or style of cake, I…

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Posted on Apr 4, 2016
Britannia Saturday take over!

  A photo posted by Ant & Dec (@antanddecofficial) on Apr 1, 2016 at 12:05pm PDT If you are a fan of Saturday night entertainment, it would be very hard to miss our favourite Jordy duo Ant and Dec setting us up for an amazing end of series finale for "Saturday night takeaway". So after weeks…

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Posted on Mar 20, 2016
UK top for choosing to cruise!!!!

Its official, More and more UK holiday goers are choosing to cruise. In a recent annual conference in Fort Lauderdale it was announced that  2015 brought a record 1,789,000 passengers from the UK a 9% increase on the year before, and the biggest rise since 2009. The number of passengers starting their cruise…

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Posted on Feb 17, 2016
MSC’s Mega Spend

Italian Stallions MSC have added to their great start to 2016 with news of 2 new mega vessels  set to launch from 2019-2020 The brand New members of the 2017 Meravilglia Plus class have been reported to have cost $3.26 Billion Dollars, and will hold an amazing 6,300 passengers, and they will be…

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Posted on Feb 2, 2016
New home port for Jade!

Exciting news from Norwegian cruise line this week, in an announcement from their head office, that after receiving a complete multi-million pound refit spring the NCL Jade will officially be spending the 2017 summer season departing from our very own Southampton.   This is a big thrill for NCL fans who have…

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Posted on Jan 19, 2016
Precious Cargo

  A passenger sailing with Cunard this weekend took "Baby on board" to a whole new level. Doctor were shocked when a guest only known as Johanna went into Labor 3 weeks before her due date on Saturday night, before docking in Brooklyn on Sunday morning. The 150,000 ton Queen Mary 2…

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Posted on Jan 1, 2016
Goodbye 2015!!

So that's it for another year, 2015 was a fabulous year for cruising, with cruise ships big and small hitting our waters.   March P&O Britannia, The biggest UK ships ever built to carry 4324 passengers arrived in true Brit style. Shortly after this Cruise and Maritime launch their newest member to the fleet the Magellan,…

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Posted on Dec 18, 2015
Happy Christmas from Cruise.co.uk

Yes it is that time of the year "Cruise.co.uk Christmas Conference" a time to catch up with old colleagues and meet new ones, get the low down from the cruise line on all the fantastic offers we will be selling come January and generally eat, drink and be merry. This…

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Posted on Dec 8, 2015
Ant & Decs P&O Take Away!!

  Over the years P&O have been known for their celebrity bookings including famous chiefs, singers and even bagging the glitzy BBC flag ship show Strictly come dancing for annual Dancing themed cruises. However in 2016 P&O will be welcoming Britain's favourite TV presenters  Ant & Dec to film a very special edition of…

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