Harry at the Helm

So admit it who sees the future cruise sales area on your cruise ship and tries to avoid it like the plague? Well for a lot I would say that is ok but if you are a regular cruiser and you know roughly what you would like to do for…

I'm not a great one for politics and certainley am not one for forcing my opinion on anyone else but it does seem at the moment that no matter where you turn you cant escape the topic of brexit and how it will affect everything from how we live day…

I'm lucky enough to be going on a couple of cruises this year both from Southampton. I have my family cruise booked for October with Royal Caribbean on the Explorer of the Seas which we are all really looking forward too. I have also just found out that I have…

For those of you who follow my updates you may recall that I have posted about the topic we all love to hate "Gratuities" in the past. Here is the link if anybody wants to read it - https://www.cruise.co.uk/cruise-blogs/harryatthehelm/whats-your-tipping-point/ Since then things have changed a great deal with Norwegian Cruise…

As the news reaches us that you can now add on All Inclusive Drinks packages with Cunard and P&O cruises it does make me wonder what the future holds for the cruise industry and if one day in the not to distant future all cruises will infact be All Inclusive!…

Normally when I do a review or share my thoughts on what the cruise industry has been like I would do it at the end of the year as a recap. Well this year i thought i would do something a little different, So here we are with still one…

I've always been a tad smug in the fact that I never get Seasick and have said in the past that I think a lot of it is Psychological. I do still think that but after suffering from my first bought of Sea Sickness I can maybe understand a little…

Well they say good things come in small sizes and I am hoping that will be the case when I go on my next cruise. Next week along with most of the team from here at Cruise.co.uk I will be boarding Cruise and Maritime's Marco Polo for our annual Christmas…

If you are like me you will love a good heavyweight tear up and here in the UK we have the biggest and the best in AJ at the moment. What I like about him is he does not duck any challanges and wants to take on all comers and…

If your of a certain age or more you will remember the classic TV adevrts of our Danish lager brewing friends were if something was done by them it was the best in the world. ( If you have never seen them look them upon youtube! ) Well if they…