Tom's Travels

If there is one cruise line that I am struggling to keep up with it is MSC – They seem to really emerged from the flames and grown significantly in the past couple of years. Take most cruise lines, they have a new ship every other year or in some…

This weekend saw MSC christen the brand new ship the MSC Bellissima in Southampton, and from what I can gather it was quite a successful weekend although the weather did cause a bit of chaos and they had to move quite a bit of the celebrations back from the port…

Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines is one of the largest cruise lines in the World and have broken many records in the past years with the launch of the Oasis of the Seas in 2009 they really have been ahead of the market with many cruise lines struggling to keep up…

Silversea are one of my favourite cruise lines, they offer the ultimate in luxury cruising which really is second to none, but recently I have noticed that Silversea seem to be branching more in to the world of Expedition cruising. Don’t get me wrong – Silversea have invested lots in…

The World of Cruising is growing so fast, significantly faster than anyone thought this time 10 years ago! The past month has seen some very exciting news. Firstly, Regent Seven Seas have announced that they will building yet another Explorer Class Ship, it all started back in 2013 when Regent…

I must admit when it comes to the world of Silversea, I am a big fan. Having been on the likes of Crystal, Seabourn, Oceania, Regent I must say my favourite and first choice to go back on would be Silversea. They are all very nice but have very different…

In the blink of an eye and 2018 is gone! Someone once said the older you get the quicker the years go by and at the time, I did not think much of it, but how true it is. Here we are at Christmas 2018! So, I wanted to take…

Royal Caribbean have always been one of the most popular main-stream cruise lines around since around the late 1990 when cruising really started to come in to its own when started to see the larger ships come out, although Royal Caribbean has been an established cruise line since 1968 when…

It has recently been announced that the Anthem of the Seas will return to Southampton in 2020 with the ever so popular Independence of the Seas, affectionally known as ‘Indy’. Anthem of the seas first made her UK Debut back in 2015 when she spent the Summer season sailing from…

The Cruise Market has grown so much in the last ten years, and no matter whom you have cruised with in the past, no matter who you speak to they will say it is different today to what it used to be. So may say it is not what it…