When is it acceptable to put your tree up?
Unless you have been living under a rock, hiding away from the world (tempting sometimes I know), the season of Christmas seems to have been flung upon us in a mad rush from every company going. These days as soon as Halloween is over, it seems all we can then think about is Christmas. It […]
Read MoreAre world cruises set to follow the Dodo?
So, the famous children’s story goes that Phileas Fog travelled around the world in 80 days visiting many different countries along the way, today Princess Cruises have announced the longest world cruise voyage for 2018 of any cruise line, with a voyage lasting 106 days. World cruises have long been an aspirational voyage for many […]
Read MorePacific Princess has been in the wars (or walls to be precise)
So this week has been a bad week for the Pacific Princess as 10 days into a 12-night voyage it has emerged that she has been in an accident in Nice Harbour. It appears that as she was moving across the harbour in strong winds she has collided with part of the breakwater wall causing […]
Read MoreBye Bye Toffee Deluxe
I needed to write this week about my utter shock that at Nestle announcing that they are retiring the Toffee Deluxe from boxes of quality street! Now I know the initial statement might not be all that shocking in itself, but stay with me! But in recent weeks where we have had the big fall […]
Read MoreStep into Strictly
Well it’s that time of year again! Where the nights are drawing in all too soon and where the central heating gets woken up from its summer hibernation, and this is all welcomed with the return of the Saturday night favourite of Strictly Come Dancing. And I must say I LOVE IT! There is something […]
Read MoreBig Girls You Are Beautiful?
So it seems September can now be renamed P&O month. They surprised us all in late August my announcing that they would be launching their 2018 programme in September rather than the traditional March (6 months after they had launched their 2017 programme I might add), and this week they have announced a new 180,000 […]
Read MoreIs it time P&O moved out of Southampton?
I have been thinking about this for a while to be honest, and over the years this has been mentioned to me by customers and colleagues alike. But should P&O cruises look to move out of Southampton and look at other regional ports around the country? P&O are in a minority in the grand […]
Read MoreDesperate Times Call for Desperate Measures
So I am on the train down to Head Office as I write this on the train low and behold whilst browsing the internet I actually see something that leaves me speechless. It has been reported in the news that a Bolivian man who missed his Ryanair flight at Madrid, actually jumped over the gate […]
Read MoreIt’s All Panic Stations
I have mentioned in some of my previous blogs about the end of July and through August being the late season in the travel industry. Where traditionally a lot of the people contacting us are wanting to travel within the next few weeks to grab some last minute summer sun and hoping to grab a […]
Read MoreWas Sarah Connor Right All Along? Are Skynet starting with cruises?
No this blog isn’t a late April fool’s joke. Costa Cruises have today announced a new partnership SoftBank Robotics to purchase five of their latest robots for their flagship, The Costa Diadema. From the information that has been released, it sounds like these are not robots to operate a bar, but rather walking robots […]
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