Brad’s On Board

Normally at this time of year, I sit at my desk getting my affairs in order, booking any outstanding elements for forthcoming tailor-made trips, such as transfers and hotels. This is an essential part of the way I work, so I can have a clean slate ready for the madness…

So today sees me start a week off with us travelling down to a castle on the outskirts of the historical city of Bath. We have 4 nights booked and there are 16 of us split perfectly into 8 adults and 8 children, near enough the full house of brother…

Royal Caribbean has started work on a major upgrade to its 20-year-old Voyager of the Seas. They are going full-on with their plans too, with slides, extra cabins being put in, laser-tag and new soft furnishings being installed as over 2000 contractors spend the next 41 days on the $99…

So Monday saw the biggest collapse within our beloved travel industry as package holiday giants Thomas Cook sadly could not raise the £200 million required to keep them trading. I started our learning my trade with Thomas Cook 16 years ago at their head office working in their cruise department.…

When this blog posts I will be on the final day of my 1st cruise with MSC, and the longest cruise we have taken the children on! I am either very very happy or pulling my hair out. I am quite excited to experience MSC, to be honest. With the…

So, after hours, days, weeks and months of hard work, our big day has finally come on gone and what a day we had. I quite honestly could not have thought in a million years it would have run as smoothly as it did. We were out working in the…

I am signing off today for a week and when I return I will be a married man. I have a shed load of things to get done in the run-up and the weather is looking pretty wet for this entire week, which is not ideal when I have a…

On writing this, I am 19 days from being a married man! The last few weeks have been a bit frantic, but I feel like everything is in control and running smoothly. My groomsmen's suits all fit, my speech is written, music system sound checked twice (much to the annoyance…

Drinks package, drink package, drinks package...The 2 words I have definitely heard the biggest increase in being asked about in the last 5 years, back when I first started out in travel, they simply did not exist and like the mobile phone, we can how seemingly not be able to…