Guest held against his will on cruise ship.
Crew members onboard Singapore-bound cruise ship, Super Star Gemini are being accused by the guests family of ‘foul play’ after a guest vanished. The family claim that Raj Kumar Agarwal did not have the key to his cabin yet the ship authorities are claiming he must have gone overboard from his balcony. Agarwal’s brother, […]
Read MoreA step in the right direction for Seaworld
You may remember some time ago I wrote about the film ‘Blackfish’ which gave us a look into the every day plight of the whales being kept in captivity at Seaworld Parks. You can find the original post here (but please be warned it contains some images and footage some people may find distressing). […]
Read MoreCruise Ships Forced To Avoid Refugee Hotspots
I’ve just read something regarding the refugee crisis that’s shocked me and I had to share it here… According to Arnold Donald, Chief Executive Officer of Carnival Corporation, the refugee crisis is having an impact on the cruise travel industry in the region. The harrowing images that we’ve seen in recent weeks of boats and […]
Read MoreNew Cruise Terminal for Miami
This week it was announced that Royal Caribbean are planning to build their own terminal in Miami at a cost of $100 million. This is to enable the port to be able to handle it’s largest ships. According to Miami-Dade County, the completion target date is around mid 2018. Royal Caribbean will be leasing the […]
Read MoreCruise vs Hotel stay in hurricane season
With news of Tropical Storm Erika hurtling towards the Caribbean and Hurricane Danny leaving a right old mess in his wake, I thought I’d take this opportunity to give you even more reasons to cruise (incase you didn’t have enough reasons already). ‘Why would talk of a hurricane make me want to go on a cruise?’ […]
Read MoreThe Ultimate Escape Is Here
With NCL being my favourite cruise line, I couldn’t not talk about the float out of their newest ship today. NCL Escape is looking pretty fantastic so far and if you were lucky enough to grab one of the cabins we had on the fantastic offer this week for the 1 night cruise on her […]
Read MoreDisney upset thousands of young guests
But……I can understand why and I personally don’t think it’s as bad as people are making out. Some of you may know that Disney Cruise Line have been offering a little known service called ‘Mickey Mail’ on their cruises. This is where guests can hand in items to guest services (pillow cases, picture frames, autograph […]
Read MoreMy dad’s time working on QE2 – Part Three
Carrying on from the posts I’ve written about my dads time working on QE2, I thought I’d add the last few photos, some of which are of places or ships that I don’t know of recognise. Let me know if you recognise any of them. The others are the extra photos that are in dads […]
Read MoreMy dad’s time working on QE2 – Part Two
As mentioned in my last post, I’ve managed to get hold of the photos taken by my dad from his time working on QE2 and wanted to share them all with you. QE2 was an amazing sight wherever she docked. Even to this day, the Cunard ships are instantly recognisable with their black and red […]
Read MoreMy dad’s time working on QE2 – Part One
As some of you know, the cruise industry is ‘in my blood’. My dad worked on the iconic Queen Elizabeth II back in the 70’s and I recently managed to get hold of his photos taken during that time. They’re all in an album and my plan was to run them through a ‘photo machine’ […]
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