About us

     
www.CRUISE.co.uk, is one of the leading cruise retailers in the UK. The original company used to trade under the name of Victoria Travel and was one of the first dedicated cruise specialist retailers, set up over 22 years ago by Andrew Gardner, who is still the chairman of the company. The original company was named after his first daughter "Victoria". The company has grown substantially over the years and is now the leading cruise retailer for a number of cruise lines.      

Today the company operates as www.CRUISE.co.uk and Victoria Travel.

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www.CRUISE.co.uk is the leading web portal for all cruise offers. A large proportion of the heavily discounted cruise offers on the site are automatically posted onto the site by the cruise lines. The offers we receive are often exclusive and are always the best in the market. Should you ever find you have purchased a cruise from us and within 24 hours you find the same cruise at a lower price we will match and refund the difference.

www.CRUISE.co.uk is the main cruise offer provider for the Times, Sunday Times, News of World and the Sun. Our cruise offers can also be found on Teletext Digital.

Victoria Travel  -  Luxury Cruises for the Discerning Traveller.

Victoria Travel concentrates on the more premium Cruise lines, tailormade cruises, themed cruises and corporate incentive groups. We are one of the main retailers for Silverseas, Seabourn, Radisson, Cunard, Celebrity and Holland America and we can tailormake any itinerary to suite your requirements.

Unlike other cruise retailers, www.CRUISE.co.uk/Victoria is not restricted to selling the packages, flight or hotel arrangengements provided by the cruise lines. We have the ability to create the flight and hotel arrangement around you.

Victoria Travel is the main cruise provider for BBC Gardeners World, MQ ( Masons Quaterly).

The company is a member of ABTA (78024) and has its own ATOL licence (3385).

Carnival Corporation (owner of P&O, Cunard, Princess etc) purchased 50% of the company in 2002 and the remainder of the company in 2005. In 2007 the management led by Andrew Gardner and Seamus Conlon purchased the company back from Carnival Corporation with the backing of a venture capitalist called "The Forward Group". 

In order for the company to grow and offer the widest range of cruises it was believed that the company needed to be independent of any particular cruise line. It is this approach which enables us to publish such a wide range of reviews about so many cruiselines.

Andrew Gardner is the Chairman and founder of the company.

Seamus Conlon is the MD of the company. (previously Managing Director Airtours Holidays and Managing Director TV Travelshop.)

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