Danielle Cruise Diva

I am off on my travels again. Today I am heading down to Dublin to stay overnight before catching a very very early flight tomorrow morning to Bremen in Germany (via Amsterdam). I am going to be sailing on the NCL Encore over to Southampton. I am very excited as…

So Halloween is just under two weeks away and whilst some of us are still trying to decide what to wear trick or treating a lot of businesses have started the dreaded discussions to start in your workplace about the Christmas party. Some poor person has the responsibility to ring…

Have you ever gone ashore abroad using one of the tenders and thought, What happens if I cant get back on board? This is something that has never crossed my mind. I have worried about getting back to the port in time for the ship leaving and always made sure…

As you would have read in my last post I was heading off on Rhapsody of the Seas for a 7 night cruise around the Greek isles. My next few posts are going  to be about some specific topics on the ship like food, entertainment,drinks packages etc but today I…

As I am writing this I have just put my out of hours message on my emails and voicemail, yippee!! I am heading away on Rhapsody of the Seas for a 7 night Greek Isles cruise on Saturday morning. Below is my itinerary if you fancy having to look to…

We have all done it before. We do think about it, somewhere in our subconscious but how much do we pay attention to it? Wondering what I am talking about? The topic of holiday vaccinations!! More and more of us are taking those cruises to far flung places around the globe.…

  With cruising becoming a yearly event now rather than that one off special holiday I have found myself finding perfect cruises for my customers at superb prices only to be told ‘Oh No, its stopping at Rome, I have been there loads of times!’. Once you have visited the…

I was speaking to a customer yesterday about Seattle and I almost had to stop myself from tearing up. Last week I decided to have a Grey’s Anatomy re-run thing going on and have spent the last week traumatising myself with series 11 of my favourite show where I cried…

More and more cruise lines are basing themselves out of European Ports rather than the old favourites like Southampton and Dover. It obviously cuts down on sea days and means you can cram as many ports as possible into a 7 night cruise. But it opens up a whole other…

This week my blog is more of a question. A query if you may, on what expectations you feel you have a right to when you book a holiday. You expect to have a good time. You expect to get into all of the ports that you have carefully chosen…