Sally Walker Talks Cruises

  The Royal Princess is set to be host to a new TV Documentary for ITV in 2014. The four part documentary will air this summer on ITV and follow some of the crew and passengers giving an insight into what life is really like on board. The staff featured…

Friday night down at Southampton docks will certainly be holding an event to remember with the presence of none other than The Duke of Edinburgh paying a visit. Cunard Cruise lines QM2 will celebrate her tenth anniversary in spectacular style along with Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth. A public firework…

  The Formula One Grand Prix season 2014 is now officially underway with 4 races having taken place already. Just one more to go between now and the most famous one of all - Monaco. The glitz, the glamour, the buzz, Monaco is as fascinating a place as can be…

  So it seems these days that for every popular TV programme, their comes a cruise to match!! From  Downton Abbey, Splash and Strictly come Dancing to name a few comes the latest craze  "Game of Thrones". Now I feel like I have missed out on something here since I…

  The excitement is building!! The countdown has begun, 58 days to go until the first kick off. Will this be the summer for England to rejoice, will we bring the world cup home??  Who knows!! But half the enjoyment of the world cup for all of us is just…

    So having recently undertaken a seminar with Cruising excursions, I have to say I was very impressed with their offerings. For a few years now cruising excursions have been operating in many of the ports offering similar excursions to  those that the cruise lines offer. There is one…

  Fred Olsen has taken the exciting step forward by letting on board guests choose the next port of call on a cruise. For the first time passengers will be able to be vote where the ship docks next by selecting from choice of 2 destinations 48 hours before the…

  Last week I posted some of Ben Fogels amazing excursions. So I thought I would research some of the most obscure and interesting excursions myself and see whats out there. I have put together my top 5. Let me know if you have ever done any of these. I…

  Having heard that my local police force, Hampshire constabulary had been sworn in by Bermudan officials giving them the authority to investigate crimes on UK ships whilst docked in Southampton, got me to thinking how and why ships are registered in Bermuda or Bahamas etc and not their home…

For a while now Celebrity have been promoting their cruise excursions as hand picked and trialed by Ben Fogle. Adventurer, traveler, writer from the TV series castaway Ben has searched the globe for some of the most unique and wonderful excursions going.  These are a selection of some of the…