No need to miss out on the World Cup while you cruise!
Excellent news for those footie fans who were planning to spend June/July at home watching the World Cup – you can now enjoy the football whilst cruising! To ensure their guests won’t miss a minute of the action while on holiday, Azamara Club Cruises, Celebrity Cruises, and Royal Caribbean International have obtained rights to air […]
Read MoreCruise Ship Activities for Sports Enthusiasts
Not everybody likes to be on a cruise and just relax. There are many people like me, who adore to be active and spend as much time as possible with sports. Some of my sport liking customers contacted me about what cruises have the best sporting facilities. I researched and found this list of 9 […]
Read MoreA little bit of Paradise?
Norweigan Cruise Lines started a trend when it bought its own private island, Great Stirrup Cay in 1977. Since then quite a few of the other cruise lines have followed suit, and these islands feature regularly on their itineraries. Royal Caribbean owns Coco Cay and Labadee, Princess owns Princess Cays, Celebrity owns Catalina Island and […]
Read MorePalma Mallorca – a first for Royal Caribbean
For the first time ever, Royal Caribbean will be basing a ship in Palma de Mallorca when the Grandeur of the Seas sails from there in 2011. The ship will offer 7 night or 14 night back-to-back sailings taking in the French Riviera, the Italian coastline and the Balearic Islands. The Grandeurs cruises will be […]
Read MoreShore Excursions – ‘the unofficial guide’……….. Part Two
Organised Shore Excursions…….. Unless you are familiar with your port of call, you are probably better joining an organised shore excursion, offered by all the cruise lines. These are organised and vetted by the cruise line. You will be accompanied by ship staff. Some cruise lines, particularly Fred Olsen, will advise you about the difficulty, […]
Read MoreCougars on the prowl – the story continues!
Well folks, I said this story was going to run and run, and sure enough on it goes! I’ve just been reading an article on our www.cruises.co.uk site telling of forthcoming events. Although Cougars have been banned by Carnival Cruise Lines they plan to take to the waters once more with a Mexican Riviera cruise […]
Read MoreDid you know?
…… A whole county in Iowa raises all its beef cattle for sale to Carnival Cruise Lines. ……The Queen Mary II is the only cruise ship (technically a liner!) that you can take pets on. It even has an authentic British lamp post for them to pee up! ……Most major cruise lines have replaced champagne […]
Read MoreIs booking ‘Cruise Only’ the right thing to do?
Ok, there’s a credit crunch in full swing and we’re all trying to save money where we can. At the moment I’m getting lots of enquiries from people who still want to go on their cruise this summer, but are looking to book ‘cruise only’ and arrange their own flights with a low cost airline. […]
Read MoreNot all cruises are flawless – Youtube proves this
In this posting, some material shows some extreme cruise experiences, either good or bad. In this Youtube movie, the world’s largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean’s “Oasis of the Seas” arrives at Port Everglades, Florida. Five times larger than the Titanic, it has 2,700 cabins and can accommodate 6,300 passengers. In this movie you can see […]
Read MoreRoyal Caribbean – the Good Samaritan
This morning the Royal Caribbean Independence of the Seas, arrived in Labadee, the first cruise ship to do so since Haitis capital Port-au-Prince was devastated by an earthquake. Earlier this week, in the port of San Juan, the ship stocked up with relief supplies of rice, dried beans, tinned foodstuffs, dried milk and water which […]
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