Tom's Travels

  2020 is set to be a huge year for the UK Cruise Industry and especially for Southampton. So this week we have had confirmation that Royal Caribbean will bring the Anthem of the Seas back to Southampton in 2020, the ship that will join her is yet to be…

Silversea to me has to be one of my favourite cruise lines when it comes to the ultra-luxury market. 6* Cruising at its finest and I have been so lucky to have experienced two of the ships in the Silversea Fleet. The first was the Silver Cloud, the flagship in…

Crystal Cruises have grown so much recently in to the world of Cruising, Private Jets, Small Expedition ships but this is more pushed to the American Market and lesser known to the UK Market. Even in the world of Ocean Cruising, if you asked someone who are the major player’s…

On Monday this week, it marked a moment in history for P&O as the brand new ship for P&O Cruises – P&O Iona went on sale. Monday was the sale day for the top tiers within the P&O loyalty club and today for the everyone. Iona will be the largest…

Oceania have just announced part of the ‘Oceania Next’ program. We had an idea that something was coming as they announced on Friday that they had an announcement. They are a relatively new cruise line being founded just in 2002. They have grown significantly since with 4 smaller and 2…

Sail around the World at the Ultimate end of Luxury! But perhaps not the Luxury Prices? Regent Seven Seas have just launched the 2021 Round the World Cruise, at a total of 117 nights sailing from Miami on the 1st January, covering 30 countries and 61 ports. She will also…

P&O Cruises have always said that they would not do drinks packages, and to be honest I have always thought it would have to be expensive for them to do it to make it worthwhile, if it was too cheap then you’d end up perhaps having people cruising for the…

Last week saw some very sad news hit the headlines in the cruise industry, so much so that it was all on the South Today news. P&O are selling the Oriana! Ships come and go but this is one that I am really disappointed about, Oriana is one of my…

MSC really have grown leaps and bounds over the past couple of years and not much is changing for the years to come. MSC has become one of the biggest cruise lines in the World, last year MSC Launch both MSC Meraviglia and the MSC Seaside, this year they have…

Celebrity Cruises has to be one of my favourite cruise lines, and if you speak to anyone who has cruised with them always have good things to say. Well today I had a rather interesting conversation with one of my regulars who has just returned from the Celebrity Equinox, she…