Juliette’s ‘Taylor’ Made Cruises

  I think finally some of the cruise companies are listening to feedback from their guests. Celebrity cruises have recently announced that guests will no longer be required to pre pay gratuities when opting for the select dining option on board their ships.   Celebrity Select Dining is what’s known as Freedom…

I was surprised to see A disabled woman was denied access to a cruise because she could not get out of her wheelchair to board her ship. When booking the cruise her husband was told that if they wanted to use the port of Liverpool, which does not have specialised…

Princess Cruises has confirmed it will launch a new ship in late 2019, with its next ship - Majestic Princess - launching in 2017. Both will be sister ships to Royal Princess, launched by the Duchess of Cambridge in 2013, and Regal Princess, launched in 2014. The as-yet unnamed 600…

MSC Cruises has announced that it will develop a private marine reserve island in the Bahamas called Ocean Cay MSC, with a view to open in November 2017. The project will be the biggest island development by any cruise company in the Caribbean and the only marine reserve island experience.…

P&O Cruises is to host a special episode of Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway live from the top deck of its flagship Britannia in Barcelona. The next series of ITV’s award-winning show, 200 viewers of Saturday Night Takeaway will have the chance to win 100 free cabins on a…

Celebrity Cruises confirmed that Celebrity Equinox and Celebrity Reflection will no longer overnight in Istanbul in 2016 because of berth availability and port construction. Construction of the Salipazari Port Area project in Istanbul, commonly known as Galataport, is set to make the city one of the world's largest hubs for cruise tourism.…

Formal wear will no longer be required in the main dining room on select nights onboard a Celebrity Cruises sailing. The line is replacing formal nights across its fleet with more relaxed "evening chic" nights, starting in December. The new dress code, which the line calls evening chic, is dressier…

Over the last few weeks I am finding the trend is that most customers want to pre pay for drinks before they travel on their cruise. Nearly all customers ask about this and it is certainly a high priority when deciding which cruise liner to book with. At the moment…

P&O Cruises' newest ship, Britannia, is to sail from St Lucia for the first time as part of its winter 2016-17 deployment in the Caribbean. An expanded fly-cruise programme of new seven-night cruises alongside traditional 14-night winter sun itineraries went on sale on Thursday the 15th of October. Britannia will…

Thomson Cruises have announced that the Celebration will be sailing out of Dubai for winter 2016/2017. I am really excited about this as previously Thomson have featured the Canary Isles, The Red Sea and The Caribbean so this is a welcome new addition. The Celebration will commence the new exciting itineraries…