Nautical Neil's Life on the Ocean Wave

Nowadays most American cruise lines offer drinks packages within the fare or if you book a 'guarantee' cabin then you can add a drinks package on yourself once you are on the ship. Many clients say to me 'I don't drink that much anyway' .  However if you think about…

I used to work on board cruise lines quite a few years ago mind you.  The company I worked for was Celebrity Cruises.  The  ship I was on at that time was the Celebrity Summit which is a Millennium class ship.  My Itinerary  in Alaska consisted of sailing from Vancouver…

I have recently returned off a two night mini cruise on Celebrity Eclipse.  This was my first time I have been on a Celebrity ship since leaving their employment as a shop manager.  I was intrigued to see what it was like on board. Now we were booked with the…

If you read my previous post I will be joining the celebrity Eclipse on Friday for a two night mini cruise to Le Harve in Paris which I am very much looking forward to be going on.  As well as the ship (Which you will have plenty of photo's soon)…

In a couple of weeks time I will be visiting Celebrity Eclipse.  It has been about 10 years since I worked on board Celebrity cruises and I have a feeling thing may have changed a little. I used to run the duty free shops department on Infinity which is a…

I am sure you have heard that Royal Caribbean's Quantum class ships have fantastic on board features such as robotic bar tenders, sky diving at sea and even an arena for bumper cars. Well to try and out do Royal Caribbean's newest features , Norwegian cruise line (NCL) have announced…

Dining is a big part of cruising and all cruise lines like to try and out do each other on new and innovative venues to make your cruise experience memorable. Princess have recently announced some new dining experiences they are introducing on Caribbean Princess.  The ship is currently in dry…

March, is supposed to be the start of spring, however I am off to New York in two days to hopefully enjoy the St. Patrick's festivities with some friends and there is snow forecast!! Two weeks ago I was looking at pictures of people on the Brooklyn Bridge in shorts…

Here at cruise.co.uk we are always looking forward to new ways of cruising.  We have been offering garden themed cruises for over 30 years.  Whether we combine these with Cruise & Maritime, River cruise line, Regent, Cunard and Fred Olsen these garden cruises are extremely popular. This year we have…

Well, it has been over 12 years since I have visited the 'Big Apple'.  That time was with 30 friends to celebrate a friends 30th Birthday.  The weekend was quite a fuzzy one as you could appreciate and I didn't really take in the fact that I was actually in…