The 5 Most Misunderstood Things About Cruising These 5 misunderstood things about cruising are left as comments on my channel all the time. I was even asked about them during my interview on a local radio station just last month. They came up at a dinner party I was at this week. They never go…
How To Cruise For Less Money I want to share with you ten ways that you could cruise for between $50 to $100 per day, sometimes even less, which means you can go cruising much more often. Let’s look at how you can cruise for less money. 1 Aggregator sites The easiest way to…
Small Things That Can Transform Your Cruise I have pulled all these small but transformative things together, as I want to share with you five small and simple things that you can do. things I genuinely believe will transform your next cruise. An Important Check On my next cruise, as I record this, in…
The Most Overrated Cruise Experiences I asked the viewers of my cruising videos about the cruise experiences that they thought were completely overrated. Based on their responses, I collected all the information, compared them with my own views and I’ve drawn up a list of what I think are the most overrated cruise experiences. Cabin…
Getting Disembarkation Day Right Talking to many fellow cruisers, I spotted 7 mistakes that I was – and most of you – are making on cruise disembarkation day. Thus making the end of a cruise far worse than it should be. #1 Thinking Ahead When planning a cruise, like most cruisers, I used to focus…
Embarkation Day After a particularly bad embarkation day on a cruise a while ago, I decided it was time to think about how to make all future embarkation days successful and stress-free. I spoke to a bunch of experienced and smart cruisers to check my approach was right, tested it out on a series of…
Cruise Cabin Checks Everyone Should Do BEFORE Unpacking No matter what type of cabin I’m cruising in, I do a series of checks the minute I get in. They’ve unlocked perks, they’ve even got me upgraded, and certainly made the cruise so much better. You should do these too! Right Cabin Check Before you…
Critical Questions To Ask When Booking A Cruise From Now On Have you booked, or are thinking of booking cruises for next year or beyond? You need to proceed carefully if you are. In this episode of Tips For Travellers, I want to give you X big questions you need to ask yourself, your…
The Worst Mediterranean Cruise Ports Are Also The Best I was helping my friend Winnie plan her first Mediterranean cruise recently. She said she wanted a cruise that went to the best ports and avoided the worst. I told her she’d set me an impossible task, as the best ports in the Mediterranean are also…
7 Things Every First-Time Cruise Passenger Should Know When I started cruising, I made loads of mistakes. And it saddens me that when I go cruising today, I meet so many first-time cruisers still making those same mistakes. That’s why I’ve pulled together these seven things. They are all things that anyone thinking of going…
There’s A Lot That Can Go Wrong On An Alaska Cruise The stakes are high. For you it may be a once in a lifetime trip you’ve been dreaming of. Or if you’re returning and think you know the traps, there’s still much that can go wrong. An Alaska cruise often costs twice the price…
What Went Right And Wrong On My Alaska Cruise? Before the pandemic shutdown, I booked a North to South Alaska cruise on Princess Cruises, from Whittier, near Anchorage to Vancouver. Firstly, because I thought the itinerary would be better than the Inside Passage I’d done previously, and Princess claims to be an Alaska expert. I…
Cruise Gratuities On my last cruise, a Queen Mary 2 crossing, I was nervous about disembarkation. Not because the trip was ending. I was apprehensive about a potentially uncomfortable encounter with my cabin steward. Him loitering and wondering if I was going to give him a tip, and me feeling guilty because I wasn’t. Gratuities…
8 Cruise Line Secrets Staring Us In The Face It was 10 o’clock in the evening on a Viking cruise. I was chatting to the cruise director when an innocuous announcement came over the tannoy system. She turned and ran. When I discovered how the bridge knew she had to run. And how they let…
10 Smart Things To Do If Crossing The Atlantic on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 On my first Cunard Transatlantic crossing, an English couple on the restaurant table next to me were desperate to get off the ship. They hadn’t understood what they had signed up for and had to endure another five sea days before…
What’s Queen Mary 2 Like Today? The Good, Bad & Baffling My heart sank as I boarded Queen Mary 2 in Southampton, for my first trip in around 8 years, a Transatlantic Crossing. I spotted areas on the hull looking battered and rusty. Was this evidence recent critics were right? Queen Mary 2 was becoming…
