Brad’s On Board

  With news of Sir Richard entering the cruise industry, rumoured to be in 2018, with a new and exciting product to add to his every growing collection of businesses. Early plans are said to include 2 brand new ships, set to sail out of Miami and Fort Lauderdale and…

  Some great news to end 2014 on is the fact Obama plans to rebuild relations with Cuba and fight to lift the trade embargo.  This means that, if successful, the beautiful island of Cuba will be able to be visited by American owned cruise lines.  This has not been…

The week saw an exciting announcement for us here at Cruise.co.uk, and for me personally, a reunion of myself and Thomson, where I spent the best part of the last decade plying my trade. Now, whilst I appreciate the Thomson cruise product is not everyone's cup of tea, I can…

My partner and I have recently done a 2 night break on the Azura as a birthday treat for my 30th birthday, and a great time was had. On arrival at the Ocean terminal, we joined the queue to get rid of our cases and was quite astonished by what we…

Now we all love a bit of on board credit to help sweeten a cruise deal, but from past experience, we tend to just assume this will be spent behind the bar and not used to experience the huge variety of offerings on board.   Speciality Dining.   I love…

So we have recently seen NCL complete the purchase of Oceania and add a shiny new boat to the fleet with the purchase of the Ocean Princess for £52 million. We have seen numerous buy outs in the cruise industry in previous years and can't help but feel that soon…

The ever growing theme cruise market has caught my eye recently, with American cruise operators really embracing the positive effect of a cruise having a 'theme' drawing people that wouldn't necessarily think of taking a cruise, incentivised to get involved. The thought of getting on a ship may have previously…

Now, I have often been faced with arguments from people about why they would "never" go on a cruise, and these are very often misconceptions and seldom anything that hasn't been made up in their own head, "I'd get bored!", "I would feel trapped!", "They're too stuffy!" And the like.…