Isabelle's Cruising Insights

I hope I'm not droning on about my recent Azamara experience, but it really was that great that I cant help but gush about it. Of course reading about someone’s experience is never quite the same as actually doing it yourself but I hope if you haven't sailed with them…

I'm sure most of you already know that the end of April saw me jetting off to join the beautiful Azamara Quest for a short trip from Monaco to Rome. I was super excited about this trip mainly because Azamara are renowned for amazing food (and i do love my…

I am extremely excited this week because Friday I will be joining 3 of my colleagues in Monaco to join the beautiful Azamara Quest where we will spend 3 nights on board and visit Florence, Pisa and Rome. I have never been on an Azamara cruise nor have I visited…

Its that time of year again when the cruise lines start increasing the cost of gratuities. One will make the announcement and usually the others are follow suit, much to the annoyance and frustration of clients.  This year is no exception and sure enough the announcements have been rolling in…

Yikes isnt Donald Trump creating quite the stir in his first few months in office? Last Id read he was set on building walls to keep out 'the Mexicans', but this week his bill to ban citizens of majority Muslim countries from entering the US has been temporarily grounded by a Federal…

Something I do on a weekly basis is call my clients who are getting ready to set sail to check they have all they need, wish them a great trip and to advise them about the benefits to making cruise bookings on board. It surprises me just how many clients…

The all inclusive package holiday culture is fast catching up on the cruising industry and is being demanded by more and more clients who want to budget better for their trip away. If you're lucky enough to have bagged a free beverage package with your cruise then that's great, give yourself…

Its one of those questions that as a sales consultant I have never really understood. Sure, everyone wants the best deal and a little off here and a little off there can help the purse strings. But is ringing around every agent on the high street and the web worth…

In January 2012 the cruising industry was rocked by the news of a sunken cruise liner off the coast of Tuscany, every cruising fanatics worst nightmare. Costing £372 million to build the Costa Concordia was a beautiful modern cruise ship carrying 4200 passengers when the unthinkable and completely avoidable happened,…

So today I turned 30 years old. A milestone birthday it would seem is a daunting one until it arrives as now the day is here I feel no different!! I still feel the same as I did when I turned 18, one or two greys perhaps but I blame my…