Nautical Neil's Life on the Ocean Wave

P&O cruises have recently announced that they are banning fancy dress on all of their cruises! Even mini cruises which historically are booked by new to cruise passengers and parties who are celebrating. I can understand that if you are new to cruising and you book a taster cruise to…

Cunard have just released sailings on Queen Elizabeth to Alaska for 2019.  She will sail in May from the Orient over to Canada and do four sailing round trip Vancouver to Vancouver starting from 21st May 2019.  She will visit ports of call including, Sitka, Juneau, Skagway, Hubbard Glacier (which…

Well it has been a topsy turvy week or so in the travel Industry and not really for the good. Morarch group has ceased trading leaving over 100, 000 passengers abroad with the uncertainty of getting a flight home and over 800,000 future bookings being cancelled.  This has left over…

Well you have read the news.  Ryanair are planning to cancel 40-50 flights a day.....yes A DAY because they have messed up their pilots holiday rota's!!! I thought Michael O'Leary's hair brained idea of 'low cost standing room only on his flights' was nonsense but  I couldn't believe my ears…

Well its that annual blog which seems to get earlier each year.  Cunard and P&O will open their 2019 sailing within 10 days.  Yes the brochures and emails will be winging their way to you within the next few days. So whats new for 2019? P&O will visit 2 new…

As you have probably seen in the news Big Ben will stop chiming soon and will not chime for 4 years due to essential maintenance required.  Always being on the fore front of spin, Royal Caribbean have offered to lend a hand! The Chief of Royal Caribbean UK Ben Bouldin…

On my Amadeus River cruise we visited some lovely ports and Hoorn in The Netherlands was a particular favorite.   We dis embarked the ship and took a coach through to Volendam to the picturesque fishing village.  There were inevitably quite a few tourist shops but the village was like…

I have just returned from an excellent river sailing from Koblenz to Amsterdam.  We visited Cochem, Cologne, Hoorn in Holland and an overnight in Amsterdam on the Amadeus Silver 1 ship. Myself and three colleagues flew from Manchester into Frankfurt and took an hour and a half train from Frankfurt…

It has recently been announced by P&O that they are changing their on board booking policy. Before the change, P&O used to collect £50 per person off clients on board and this was attached to their Peninsular numbers.  Then when passengers decided which sailing they wanted the future cruise deposit…