Tom's Travels

Britannia arrived in Southampton on the 6th March, although her maiden voyage is not until the 14th March. This has given P&O time to do red carpet exclusive events, and I will luckily enough to be invited yesterday for the overnight event in Southampton, this also saw the Queen on…

Princess Cruise had a few ships that will base themselves out of Australia and Asia. Diamond Princess tends to do the Far East, Sun Princess, Sea Princess and Dawn Princess are more around Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific but unlike P&O Australia we can take advantage of the…

MSC Cruises are a bit like Marmite, you either love them or you loath them, but isn’t this the same with all cruise lines? As I say too many of people, read reviews and take them with a pinch of salt but before you dismiss doing a cruise line, try…

This morning I received an email from Travel Weekly which is one of the travel magazines that people that work in the travel industry receive, it contains information and news from the four corners of the globe. Anyway the Title of the page was – ‘Could you be the Godmother…

  Royal Caribbean have a long list of ships on order for release in the next few years, and in general across all cruise lines we will see about 20 new cruise liners launched in the next 5 years. Most anticipated for me is the two new Celebrity Ships, I…

This time next month I will be aboard the new P&O Britannia and I cannot wait. The biggest cruise ship ever built for the British Market. Over the years I have been very fortunate to travel and see over 30 different cruise ships from the very basic to the most luxurious…

  Ever since Royal Caribbean announced the Dynamic Dining aspect it has been received in different ways by all us that cruise, with the more experienced cruises wanting the more traditional old style of dining and the younger newer market embracing the change.  With Anthem of the Seas set to…

How fast technology is advancing and there is a new and handy tool out there for you to take full advantage of! There is nothing worse when you have friends and family that go away and when you speak to them you end up with a large phone bill, expensive…

  With the Britannia launch quickly approaching, the Godmother is still yet to be announced. Kate Middleton was one of the people thought to be her Godmother and set to name her but her recent pregnancy has put a stop to that. However could the Queen be set to be her Godmother? Britannia unlike all the…

  Yes that's right, from February 2015 Celebrity Cruises will offer luxury city breaks in a range of cities that the Celebrity ships embark from, even if you are doing the Celebrity Eclipse from Southampton you can tag of 3 nights in London before.   This is one of the…