George Sails The Seas

I want to start this week’s blog by saying that my thoughts and prayers are with those living in the Caribbean whose lives have been affected by the onset of this year’s hurricane season.  It has been heart breaking to watch, and I hope they can start to re build…

The Jade on the Tyne is all mine all mine… Yep now you have that ‘famous’ song by Gazza as an ear worm in your head as well.  Well my adapted version of it anyway. So tomorrow I am off to visit a very special lady that is coming to…

Well I have heard it all now! And no this isn’t a late April Fools. You may or may not have heard that the chimes of Big Ben are to be silenced over the next 4 years whilst work is carried out on the clock tower for some restoration that…

If you had of asked me a few years ago would I ever cruise with Thomson Cruises, without even thinking about the question or answer, it would have been a down right NO. Never in a million years.  Even though my mum and dad cruise with Thomson and only Thomson…

You have probably seen over the past few days through various channels, that Celebrity Cruises have released a new 2-night sailing on the Celebrity Silhouette in April next year.  This cruise has proved to be extremely popular so much so that this morning as a write this there are no…

I read somewhere last week that in the next 8 years there will be an additional 250,000 cruise berths added to the global fleet with this number set to rise as more cruise lines order new ships as they look to increase their capacity.  This is a phenomenal number, (over…

  We are entering that time of year again that people in the travel industry tend to call ‘lates season’.  Typically, this is where the trend for customers when calling is that they are looking to get away within the next 8 weeks over the peak summer period and are…

“There she blows!-there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!” You may be thinking what on earth is he talking about and why on earth is he quoting from the classic novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville, and I wouldn’t blame you if you were.  But…

  Well I learned something new this week.  I have been speaking with a few clients this week regarding wheelchair accessible cabins, and I will say these are like gold dust on cruises.  There simply aren’t enough cabins to meet demand.  With accessible cabins as well, they aren’t on every…

Well this sounds like its straight out of the TV show spooks or 24.  Project Ocean was actually announced by Princess Cruises a few months ago, and I must admit I didn’t fully understand it at the time and possibly dismissed it as a bit of a gimmick that probably…