About Me

Hi my name is Carol I'm from Liverpool and I am a Liverpool fan ( had to get that in). I worked for Thomson for over 15 years, about 6 of these were dealing with just cruise for our flagship Cruisedeals store in Liverpool. I do love my cruises and…

Posted on Nov 3, 2017
How brave are you really,would you dare to take this on…

Well for a change I thought i would take a look at a couple of the more challenging excursions that you can do if you are on a cruise, challenging in different ways from the physical to the "oh my god I can't do that" This week its going to…

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Posted on Oct 20, 2017
Do’s and Don’ts to make your first day on board run smoothly!

Everyone is different when it comes to cruising and everyone who has cruised a few times before has their own little rituals on what they do when they first get on board. Personally we go to the cabin first and check it out and my daughter always tries the bed…

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Posted on Oct 6, 2017
Would you like some onboard spending money

Well a lot of the time cruise lines offer an incentive to book, it could be a drinks package or it could be on board spending money or if you are really lucky you could end up with both. Royal Caribbean and Celebrity cruises sometimes have the deals that include…

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Posted on Sep 22, 2017
Silver surfer Rest in Peace…

Normally I would write my blog about a ship or a cruise someone has been on or some interesting snippet, this time unusually I have decided to leave that and use this one to pass on some very sad news. I wrote a blog not so long ago about a…

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Posted on Sep 8, 2017
OMG the ship has gone without us…

This I think is everybody's worst nightmare to get back to the dock and to see the ship sailing away, or worse still if it's nowhere in sight. So what happens then, well after the fit of panic and laying the blame on whoever is with you, you eventually calm…

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Posted on Aug 25, 2017
How the other half live…It’s a suite life

Well the time has come around really quickly from your last cruise and you are sat thinking that it is about time you planned and booked your next one, but what type of cabin do we want? I think if you can afford a balcony then sometimes there is not…

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Posted on Aug 11, 2017
Medallion man on a Princess cruise…

When I came off the Caribbean Princess a couple of weeks ago I mentioned about a brand new innovative system called Ocean Medallion that was being released from November this year starting on the Regal Princess and said I would give more information on this and true to my word…

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Posted on Jul 28, 2017
Princess for a day…

Today I was lucky enough to spend the day on the amazing Caribbean Princess. She is quite a big ship, she looked huge sat in the River Mersey with the liver birds watching over her, what an amazing port to arrive into and the weather may not have been perfect…

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Posted on Jul 14, 2017
Wild Towel Animals, do you love them or hate them? Go on you know you love them…

Well personally I love them, I love going back to the cabin wondering what exotic creature will be sat on my bed wearing my sunglasses and jewellery. Now now  Mrs behave yourself, I am talking about the art of towel folding. Its all part of the fun I think and…

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Posted on Jun 30, 2017
Not for people of a nervous disposition…

Well this week for a change I thought I would tell you about a port I went to a few years ago and also a trip I went on  while I was there. We were on the Costa Fortuna and I have to say that the ship was really nice,…

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