Tom's Travels

Back in October I was lucky enough to get on board the Azura, as many will know I have been lucky enough to also see the Oriana in September and having been on the Oceana and Aurora I was looking forward to seeing how the Azura compared to the older ships…

[caption id="attachment_5411" align="aligncenter" width="470"] A 5897[/caption] If like me, you are in to everything cruise, then you may have noticed that the Queen Victoria has 2 staterooms that can be found on board and these are very special staterooms. You will find these staterooms on deck 4 – 4180 and…

  With just over a week till the Norwegian Escape is due to debut in Southampton, I am extremely lucky to have been invited onboard as some of the first to get to see her whilst her brief stay in Southampton. She will do 2 one night cruises to give…

When you book your cruise do you go more for the ship or the destination? With many of the newer ships which are launching and already afloat they are too big to do many ports of call, take for example the Oasis Class in RCI’s fleet at 225,000 Gross tons…

Silversea have recently made the announcement that Silver Cloud will become the lines fourth luxury Expedition ship in the fleet, I must admit I was blown away when I was on board the Silver Cloud, and I have been so fortunate enough to see Regent, Hapag Lloyd and Seabourn and…

Well, apparently not as MSC Cruises have recently announced that in 2016 the MSC Lirica will homeport in Shanghai from the 1st May 2016. MSC is current giving the Lirica a facelift by lengthening and refitting her as part of the Renaissance program which saw MSC spend out $225 million…

Cruising is fast becoming one of the safest ways to go on holiday, after all the recently attacks around the world, people are starting to ask where is safe to go on holiday. With the high levels of security it would be near impossible for a large scale attack to…

Princess Cruises have always been quite a young cruise line, and most similar to P&O I suppose you could compare then, they appeal to all markets no matter what age there is something to do and a ship or two for you, you just have to find your favourite. I…

MSC Cruises have always been a little like marmite. You either love them or hate them, however one thing they have always had was a rather loyal following from there passengers that did love them. MSC are very European so if you are a diehard P&O fan then you probably…

Princess Cruises is now officially under-way with the construction of its 3rd Royal Class ship which will be the same as Royal and Regal Princess. You may or may not know that she will also be a sister to the P&O Britannia. When P&O built Britannia they took out an…