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…
How to get a cabin upgrade on a cruise: 9 ways that work for me I get upgraded more than most cruise passengers because I don’t use the most common ways other cruisers chase upgrades. I do something different. Here’s what I’ve found works: How to get a cabin upgrade on a cruise. Auto Cabin…
Things That Make No Sense On A Cruise Ship This was all sparked by a swimming pool on Virgin Voyages Scarlett Lady. Just after I boarded, I was looking at the pool wondering why on earth it was so small for a 2,770-passenger ship. What were the ship architects and the line doing? And why…
12 Things You Should Never Do In Your Cruise Cabin A German couple, Renate and her husband Volker, were thrown off a Mein Schiff cruise for something they did in their cruise cabin that they thought was fine to do. They weren’t aware of the cabin rules which, if broken, could see passengers like them,…
7 Pieces Of Cruise Advice That Will Ruin Your Cruise If I had followed these 7 pieces of cruise advice on recent cruises, I wouldn’t have made it to one, overpaid for another, booked the wrong cabin, bought something I never needed, and much worse as you’ll discover. Here’s what cruise advice to ignore and…
Easy-to-Make Cruise Packing Mistakes I want to look at 11 things that you really shouldn’t forget to pack before you set out on your cruise. Starting with the three obvious things that you need to pack. in short, I’m taking you on a journey through the cruise packing mistakes people quite often make without…
Port day essentials When we head out in port on an excursion or self-exploring, we don’t assume that things are going to go wrong – we always assume that we’re going to have a great time. However, that’s not always the case, and there are probably four key things that I’ve seen go wrong, either to…
Discover the 10 Unusual Laws You Could Break While Cruising! A look at unusual laws that you may end up breaking without even realising it when you’re on a cruise. Some of which can have incredibly serious consequences. Wearing camouflage The first of these unusual laws is around camouflage. Many countries (about 11 countries…
Best Places To Cruise Month By Month? I want to share with you my recommendations on what cruises I think you should do month by month based on the best time to visit a destination. Firstly, let’s acknowledge that there are two cruises that you can do, largely speaking, all year round: the Caribbean and…