Collette's Carry On Cruise Blog

After our night at the casino hotel it was an early start for an extremely busy day as we headed over to Seattle. The jetlag was hitting hard and we were all literally sleepless in Seattle. En route to the city was a tour of the Boeing Museum of Flight…

After an extremely long day travelling and full of lovely seafood from our meal we arrived in the city of Bellingham. The place certainly didn't feel like a city and had a very New England feel to it. It's made up of different suburbs, the most notable one being Fairhaven…

I am back from my amazing trip to Washington State and Las Vegas - and what a week it was! We stayed in amazing hotels, ate in superb restaurants and were generally treated like royalty from start to finish. At 6.30am at Heathrow I met the other 11 travellers that…

I am writing this before I go on my familiarisation trip taking in the sites of Seattle, Washington State and Las Vegas, however when you read this I will actually be there! The itinerary is jam packed full of amazing experiences & culinary delights (which is my favourite part). I…

I guess when you book a cruise you generally think about what you're going to do at the ports you stop at & how life will be on board the ship. Even cruise lines appreciate the fact that we want to get on dry land at some point and don't…

Working in the travel industry people seem to think we are able to get all our holidays for next to nothing. The truth is sometimes we get a discount, but often it's no more than Joe Public would be entitled to. Don't get me wrong there are definitely perks. I…

It's common-place now when a cruise ship docks in a port to see hordes of people flocking to the nearest cafe to make use of the very lucrative free wifi that is invariably advertised on a MASSIVE board that can be seen for miles. It's not just the passengers, but…

All cruise lines are keen to get customers back on board their ships once they have taken their first cruise. To help this they all have their individual loyalty schemes, most of which were in place many years before the likes of Tesco Clubcard points and the Boots Advantage card.…

It is just under 2 months until the first sailing of Royal Caribbean's brand new ship Symphony of the Seas on the 31st of March. There has been much hype about the ship that is set to become the biggest cruise ship in the world, taking the title from her…

It has just been announced that the Celebrity ship that is due to home-port in Southampton this Summer is about to have some tweaks made to satisfy the Great British public and make us feel more at home. Celebrity have told us that by the time the ship sets sail…