Gail's Cruising Tales

To Tip Or Not? Whether you call it tipping, service charge or gratuities - what do you think about paying tips on a cruise ship? I feel guilty if I don't tip. Customers have even asked me if they remove the tips before they travel, will the staff know and…

Love is in the air everywhere I look around......... Do you feel sorry for your Postman on Valentines Day as he struggles to your front door? or do you keep the curtains closed and dismiss the day as hype and an invention by the card shops and florists? Either way,…

Did you try " Dry January "? How did you fare? It seems that the world and his wife had a go, whether officially raising funds for charity or just as a detox after the Christmas and New Year festivities. Well, it's a good job that many of us tried…

Would you like to make your cruise last that bit longer? I often get asked about the possibility of  extending a stay before or after a cruise. Let's face it - if you are only away for 7 days, and you are getting to and from the port on the…

Can you believe that it was just over 3 years ago that 32 lives were lost when the Costa Concordia sank off the coast of the Giglio? To mark this sad anniversary, we here at www.cruise.co.uk have polled over 200,000 of our users asking them for their thoughts on the…

I can remember having a couple of " informal chats " with a careers advisor when I was in my last year at high school. To be honest I didn't have a clue of what I wanted to do or be - should I stay on and do my A…

Is biggest always the best? Whilst post Christmas the majority of us are trying our best to cut down and look sleeker, it seems that the cruise industry is going super sized! There are now a massive 57 ships sailing the high seas that weigh more than 100.000 tonnes -…

  Well it's that time of the year again, time to make those resolutions, mine are always the same ones - but how can you stop eating cheese, crisps and chocolate ( not all at the same time of course ) on 1st January? This year my new regime will…

Have you ever been to Bruges? If you haven't, make sure that next year you make time to visit - especially to see the lovely Christmas Markets. Many of us from cruise.co were lucky enough to spend a few hours there whilst on our Christmas Conference cruise a week or…

Well having just returned from our Christmas Conference on board Cunard's Queen Mary 2, I definitely feel as though I walked 500 miles - I know, slight exaggeration, but I was shocked to look at my phone and see that I had walked just over 12500 steps last Saturday. Now…