On Board With Alison

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600"] Silver Service[/caption] A few days ago I booked a cruise for a lady. This was going to be her second cruise and both times with P&O. When I got to the question of dining preferences, I was shocked when she told me that she had only…

Yesterday I drove for two hours from my house to Southampton to pack up my daughter and her many belongings at the end of Year 2 at Southampton University. It was a beautiful sunny day (which makes a very welcome change) and the countryside on both sides of the M3 looked glorious. I…

John and I have just got back home from the most beautiful wedding of a dear friend in Rye in East Sussex. We decided to make a nice long weekend of it and booked a hotel for 2 nights where a lot of the wedding guests were staying. We arrived…

Where did April go?? What a month. This is always a busy one in the cruising world as many lines launch (excuse the pun) their new products for the following year. Not only that, with the exciting announcement that the world's biggest cruise liner the magnificent Royal Caribbean's Oasis of…

Next Saturday I will be having a naughty birthday, a birthday with a nought at the end of the number. 10 years ago, of course, I had another and to celebrate this one we booked our first family cruise. We then told our two young children about the exciting prospect…