…t is the only surviving scheduled transatlantic service between Europe and New York. The ship and on-board schedule is geared for entertaining people at sea for a week. There is a range of stateroom grades and prices ranging from a few hundred dollars up to $40,000 per person. Most lines offer repositioning cruises which tend to be competitively priced and run at the start and end of the European Summer when they move their ships to regions like t…
…how they are made. You also explore the back lots that create cities like New York. If you go during the week, when shows are being shot, you may bump into the actors working. You have to book the tour in advance. Universal Studios. This is a massive, sprawling theme park and working studio with extensive back lots, where you get to see things like the original “Psycho” house and the collection of houses used for Wisteria Lane in the “Desperate H…
…all time favourite Universal Ride. After Sci-Fi it’s on to the last zone. New York. Replicas of famous sights like the library and Rockefeller centre dominate. Attractions here include Lights, Camera, Action hosted by Steven Spielberg where a set is destroyed by a hurricane before you eyes. There is also the Sesame Street Spaghetti Space Chase, a fun space adventure with Elmo and Super Grover. You are then back where you started in Hollywood and…
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…he cost of treatments to what I can get back in big cities like London, or New York, they are pretty pricey. Cross-selling Then there’s the big cross-sell: you have a treatment and then the therapists are incentivised to sell you lots of products. I do find going to the spa a bit stressful. In part because it’s stressful on the bank balance, but you know at the end you’re going to have to fight off the cross-selling of products. It then becomes no…
…classic fans, there’s Lincoln Center stage. A partnership with the famous New York venue. Rock fans have the Rolling Stone Rock Room. This partnership with the magazine of the same name, blasts out great rocking favourites. One of the most popular is BB King’s Blues Club, where a nine-piece group, picked by the great man’s team, perform. Next up is the crowd pleasing Billboard On-board. Two pianists go head to head, playing themed sets and taking…
…ng over the bow of the ship, a great place to go when sailing in or out of New York to see the Statue of Liberty. There’s a Commodore Club and the Churchill’s Cigar Lounge, which many forget and miss. It’s tucked away on deck 9. There are also hidden, what I guess are called, Easter eggs and maritime nods that, again, many people miss out on. For example, there is a small Homer Simpson buried in one of the art deco style panels just outside the Go…
…-1980s. Even in my job, when I was spending at least half the month in New York and then Paris, I kept London as my home base. London is exciting, historic, diverse, and generally fabulous. Of the hundreds of hotels I have stayed in around the world, it is still home to the most luxurious hotel and rooms I have ever stayed in: The Berkeley in London. I stayed here on the night of my wedding in 2009 to Mark, where they upgraded us and put us in the…
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…from April to October, aboard the Queen Mary 2 between Southampton and New York. They also offer a variety of longer world voyage sailings, including a total world circumnavigation. Cunard’s first-ever world cruise was aboard Laconia in 1922 and that sailing was instrumental in how the line thinks exotic and global to this day. For example, I have just got off Queen Elizabeth and it was heading down to also offer cruises around Australia, Japan, a…
…US and the table minimums were really low. $3 on Blackjack. Once we got to New York to head down to the Caribbean, it increased to $5 as more Americans boarded. The biggest change I saw was travelling in Asia, we’d sailed up from Australia to Hong Kong with $5 minimums. Once we got to Hong Kong and there were more Chinese guests onboard, the table minimums ramped up dramatically to $10. More sociable Because of this, it is much more recreational a…
