I explore the nine things that drive regular cruisers crazy I’ve been talking to regular cruisers recently about the things that drive them completely crazy, and I’ve come up with nine things – most of which I actually agree with, starting with this one: Features taking up space One of the things that’s driving people…

Pet friendly cruises. Six ways you can cruise with your pets! I’m asked a surprisingly large amount of times how – or if – you can cruise with your pet. If it’s something you want to do, you have six options Queen Mary 2 The first and easiest way to go cruising with your pet…

I am going to look at and suggest 10 best things to see and do if you’re on Adriatic and Greek islands cruise. It’s a magnificent part of the world and most of the cruises will start at either Venice or in Athens and travel between them. It means you take in parts of mainland…

I’m going to tell you my secret to solving problems on a cruise. That I think will work for you too. I like things to be spot on when I cruise, but I suffer from one of the biggest problems in the world when it comes to complaining – and that is I am British.…

While researching this, a few crew members told me that mafias exist onboard, and you need to know how to work with them. That revelation threw me, but as you will hear, there is a real positive in there for us. I also discovered that taking pictures of crew members could create serious problems for…

After my very first day on board, I was really struggling to work out just why my partner and I had paid so much money to be on an ultra-luxury cruise. It felt like the cruise was just a regular cruise on any other line that we had simply just paid so much more for.…

Cruise fare tracking could save you a fortune off your cruise. It has for me and many people that follow my channel who follow my advice to do it. Every week passengers contact me to tell me how they had their fares cut, got upgrades or extra on-board credit. It is easy to do. Once…

Princess Cruises Versus Celebrity Cruises: Which Is Better? If I gave you the daily programs from my recent cruises on these two lines, you would see they are offering and doing all the same things on board. On the surface these two cruise lines appear to be interchangeable, with little to differentiate one from the…

I was frustrated reading another article in a cruise magazine recently with cruise advice, targeted at me and people like me. It was full of out-of-date stereotypes about us and was out of sync with today’s 50 plus travellers. We’re adventurous, active, love to explore, try new things; and none of that was reflected. I…