Emily's Cruise Essentials

  Liverpool City Council have been given the 'go ahead' to update their current cruise terminal costing a staggering £50 million. This can only mean good things for the city of Liverpool as last year 60 ships sailed from here with around 120,000 crew and clients. The new facility at…

  Last Sunday (25th of March 2018) we saw the first non-stop flight land in Heathrow after taking off from Perth 17 hours prior. The journey was on Qantas Airlines on board one of their Boeing 787 dreamliner.  How amazing is this, to be able to fly all that way without having…

  Can you believe it's that time again? Some haven't even thought about Summer 2018 let alone Summer 2019 and the cruise lines bring out the itineraries and prices for as late as Winter 2020. As I type 2020 it doesn't seem five minutes ago we were celebrating the Millennium…

A new Adult Only ship for P&O. It was announced this week that once the Aurora emerges from dry dock in April 2019 she will join the Oriana and Arcadia as an adult only ship. The Aurora now being one of the smallest amongst the fleet holding 2094 with the…

It has been announced that in the Summer of 2018 along our very own Thames there will be a Harry Potter themed river cruise. How amazing is this for all Harry Potter fans? I have only stumbled across this looking on Cruise critic, so I have either been living under…

It has recently been announced that P&O cruises have ordered two more ships. The dates for these are 2020 and 2022. At the moment this seems a long way off but as we are now already in 2018 it will soon come round. The feed back I have had from…

The latest technology available in the near v=future on Royal Caribbean is facial recognition. the latest technology is already functioning on Allure of the seas and oasis of the seas and will be found on 13% of the fleet. So what does this mean? It means passengers can now check…

  I'd like to take this opportunity to wish all my customers old and new a very Happy New Year! How did that happen? It is true the older you get the faster times goes. So it is now January or Peaks in the travel world where Christmas is behind…

This will be my last blog of 2017- can't believe we are reaching the end of another year. What a year it has been. Reflecting back it started off with a bang with me celebrating my 40th birthday- I know I don't look a day over 39! It was the…

If you read my last Blog I mentioned I was at the CLIA River Conference a couple of weeks ago. Whilst we were there we had the opportunity to stay one night on board a ship and then look around the others the following morning. The was really beneficial for…