Harry at the Helm

One of the main factors for choosing any cruise you book is the itinerary and the places that you will be visiting. Some may be on your wishlist and others just sound really nice or somebody has been and said it is a must go to. So you choose the…

After so many recent bad news stories that have impacted the travel world with terrible Hurricanes and Typhoons, Earthquakes and then the collapse of much loved airline Monarch and then P&O's strange decision to sell Adonia and announce it at very short notice it's really nice to hear of a…

Well the time has finally come for me to have my first overseas holiday of the year and it certainly feels like it has been a long time coming. With so may terrible recent events such as the Caribbean Hurricanes, Las Vegas attacks and the Monarch Airline failure all keeping…

I am now wondering if hop on hop cruises may start to become more of a thing as quite often in this in my job you get asked a question from a customer and think to yourself there is no way a cruise line will agree to that. Now this…

So Hopefully you got the feel from my last update about how impressed with Oceania Marina overall and today I'm going to talk restaurants and food. Now I have to admit having a guided tour from a self confessed foodie he had set the scene very early so had to…

Recently I was very lucky enough to be invited to the spend the day on the 5 Star Luxury Oceania Marina when she came into my home port of Newcastle and I have to say that after my first date with her I think I'm in love. As you will…

As you can probably tell I do have a soft spot for the likes of Thomson Cruises from my days of old when I worked on the high street and had to try and convince all you guys that cruising was the next big thing. The way that I got…

For quite sometime now Thomson have been seen by many as the poor relation in the cruise world. The perception was that they may be ok for a first cruise to see if you like it or would maybe look at if you wanted last minute on a budget with…

We are now almost at the time of year where everybody is well and truly thinking about Holidays. We have those who are looking forward to what they have had booked for ages and then we have the people who have left it late for one reason or another. It…

So today I'm going to talk about the sometimes taboo subject of travel insurance. It's something nobody likes but it is a thing that we all need to have and sometimes it proves to be worth every penny and more. It's a subject I have never really enjoyed in my…