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How to Ensure a Good Night’s Sleep on a Cruise Ship

…ailable. I’m not saying don’t indulge yourself once in a while. It is your holiday after all and you definitely deserve it! All, I’m saying just watch when you eat. Grabbing a slice of pizza at midnight might do wonders to satisfy your cravings but it will do your efforts to sleep no favours at all. When we place our head upon our pillow we want our body to be relaxed as possible. A heavy meal or snack before bed will send your digestive system in…

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Best Family Cruises And Cruise Line Tips

…lly strong in the Caribbean and if you’re looking for a great sunny summer holiday and you just want to have lots of fun. Carnival, like many of the other cruise lines, has partnerships with lots of well-known brands so they have things like Dr. Seuss and they have really great kids’ clubs. Certainly, people who have been on Carnival cruises with kids rate the kid’s clubs very high, so be reassured that they focus on families. MSC Cruises If you w…

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The 8 Downsides of Cruising and How To Deal With Them

…y there’s nothing you can do about it. Of course if you’re on a land based holiday, there are ways to work around an issue and find a way of going there later, but bear in mind if you go on a cruise, you do need to be flexible and understand that the weather and other conditions can stop you going to port, and there is no recompense for that. Sea-related illnesses Another downside to cruising is cruising-related illnesses. The most obvious of thos…

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Best Places To Cruise Month By Month

…recommend it if you don’t have kids, and don’t have to worry about school holidays. November November is another great month to go to the Caribbean. After February, November is my other key time to look at heading to this region. However, if you want to do something very special, a once in a lifetime experience, Antarctica in November is a fantastic option. It’s the beginning of the season, it’s at its most pristine, so all the places you call wi…

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Cruise Tips for Over 50’s Travellers From a 50+ Traveller

…we can do is use the fact that families with children cruise during school holidays and public holiday times to our advantage. We’re not constrained by that timing. Avoid public and school holidays I choose to cruise out of school holidays and around any public holidays if I’m going to one of the three biggest cruise regions: The Caribbean, Mediterranean or Alaska. My focus is on shoulder periods, at the start and end of the seasons. For the Carib…

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Tips For Travellers Is Now On Cameo!

…783f4072 Happy Christmas: https://www.cameo.com/v/6562c68833be4322ce23d432 Holiday Messages Why not request a holiday greeting from myself for your friends or family this Christmas? It’s certainly a unique gift and for the cruise lovers in your life, something fun. Cameo offers a money back guarantee, so If you pay on web by card, Cameo reserves the amount when you place your order but only charges you once you have received the video.   SUPPORT T…

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What Smart Cruisers Do To Guarantee Adult-Only Cruising

…in the region you are looking at as they can vary. Avoid all major public holiday periods like Christmas and New Year, Thanksgiving, Easter, and regional major public holidays with long weekends. I have been on Christmas cruises with Cunard and Holland America, with over 400 kids. 3: Length My third tip is to go on longer cruises. Families tend to go on shorter vacations, as long trips are a big outlay for a family on a longer vacation. So, if yo…

San Francisco California. Why is this city so loved by so many?

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San Francisco California. Why is this city so loved by so many?

…out 7, since I had last been in San Francisco. And other than a week or so holiday here about 10 years ago, all previous trips had been “in and out” work trips. Then in the space of 5 months came here twice, once for work and once for holiday. I have a number of observations of this very popular and traditionally quirky city, famous for its liberalism and home of hippies on the 1960s and the gay community through the 1970s and 1980s. (1) The relat…

Kent Seaside towns: Margate, Ramsgate & Broadstairs. Potential still to come?

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Kent Seaside towns: Margate, Ramsgate & Broadstairs. Potential still to come?

…pe and guaranteed sunny and warm weather. The problem with taking a summer holiday in England is that the weather is unpredictable. You can get glorious hot and sunny days, or you can find your week or two is full of grey and rain. In their day, English seaside towns were buzzing and popular. Many had holiday camps, such as Butlins. They offered affordable and entertaining breaks. But as the tourists moved away, the towns have generally declined a…

Cape Town South Africa: 5 more great and amazing things to do there

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Cape Town South Africa: 5 more great and amazing things to do there

…city out past the harbour and round the bay you enter a series of seaside holiday resorts where Bloubergstrand seems to be the main one. It is packed full of new developments and seems to be growing very fast with new developments behind large walls. It is hard to figure out how many are full time homes or if they are holiday lets. But there certainly is a lot of them. The beach has big rocks and the waves crash over them, and you have amazing vi…

Cape Town: Bloubergstrand has the most stunning views of Table Mountain and the City Bowl

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Cape Town: Bloubergstrand has the most stunning views of Table Mountain and the City Bowl

…city out past the harbour and round the bay you enter a series of seaside holiday resorts where Bloubergstrand seems to be the main one. It is packed full of new developments and seems to be growing very fast with new developments behind large walls. It is hard to figure out how many are full time homes or if they are holiday lets. But there certainly is a lot of them. The beach has big rocks and the waves crash over them, and you have amazing vi…