Tom's Travels

You may have seen towards the end of last month that Majesty of the Seas will leave the Royal Caribbean and join the Pullmantur brand, which is where nearly all Ex-Royal Caribbean and Celebrity ships end up, although not huge with the UK Market, they are more known to the European…

Not long again we had some news that Regent and Oceania had been brought out by Norwegian Cruise Line who know own both brands.  Well now I am excited as it has been announced the Ocean Princess currently owned by Princess Cruises will sell be sold to Oceania Cruises becoming…

We have a new exciting addition to join the cruise ships sailing from the UK in 2015 as Cruise and Maritime are set to launch Magellan. She previously was the Carnival Holiday for Carnival Cruises and is still currently sailing for Iberostar Cruises as the Ibero Holiday at the moment.  …

Today Celebrity Cruises has launched its deployment plans for 2016, generally this is not until Spring 15. I must admit and you may agree that the Eclipse out of Southampton is starting to get a little boring with their itineraries! The Eclipse is a fantastic ship but there is only…

With the brand new ship Quantum of the Seas arriving in to Southampton last week brings a huge change to the UK Market and Royal Caribbean have made by decision to base her sister – Anthem of the Seas in the UK next year. In the words of Royal Caribbean’s…

It has been with much anticipation over the past month as we have watched the final touches go on to the brand new Quantum of the Seas. October for Royal Caribbean has been an exciting month as not only will Southampton have seen Quantum when she docks on Friday but…

Oasis Class is currently the biggest class of Cruise ship operating in the world. Weighing in at 220,000 Gross tons. So to put this in proportion Oriana would go in to Oasis 3.23 times and Queen Victoria just under 2 and a half times so it’s difficult to apprehend the…

Oasis of the Seas has spent the past two weeks in a dry dock whilst over in Europe having the renovations to bring her back up to date with the new Quantum Class. With Quantum of the Seas due to also launch later this month it’s a really exciting time…

  On Wednesday 1st October I had the pleasure of visiting the MSC Magnifica whilst she was in Southampton. She is within the Musica Class which is the midsized ships sailing for the fleet. I have in the past travelled on the MSC Opera and Poesia and although they are…

  Arcadia is the largest Adult only ship in the P&O fleet, but what a lot of people don’t know that she was not originally drawn up to be a P&O ship. When the plans all went through and the ship building started she was due to be a Vista…