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Holland / Rotterdam

Rotterdam Must See Attractions. My Tips for Travellers

…glamourous days of sailing. SS Rotterdam in Rotterdam Hotel New York Hotel New York is the hotel where people would stay when they arrived or before they departed on the SS Rotterdam and other glamorous ships. It’s been renovated and is stunning. There’s a beautiful café to sit outside and watch the world and boats go by. Historical Shipyard You will pass it on the Harbour Tour, it is where they tell the story of 18th Century Wooden Dutch ship, th…

Cruise Tips

Panama Canal Cruise Tips: What Everyone Gets Wrong And Why

…Norwegian Bliss and Prima class, Sun Princess and so on can go through the new Panama Canal locks. What are the new locks? On the Atlantic side large ships use the wider and longer three-tier Agua Clara Locks, and on the Pacific side they use the wider and longer Cocoli Locks. Unlike the original canal instead of gates that swing close, the new ones have large sliding gates. The ships, whether using the original or new locks, all sail through the…

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6 NEW Cruise Scams & Tricks To Avoid In 2025

…ccessfully got on board and are cruising without being caught out by those new scams, there are some new ones to be ready for here though too. Picture Not So Perfect In the past I spoke about a series of in-port scams to be ready for, and I will link to that video at the end of this, but I want to talk about a new one that a friend of mine let me know about when people on his cruise fell for it this past summer in Rome. He was on a tour which pass…

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Cruising In 2026? Then You Need to Read This!

…f the more experimental ideas that we were promised. More on that shortly. New Lines The new lines launching are mostly at the high end of cruising, but there are several new regional lines. Four Seasons line is launching with the first of their purpose-build 190-passenger yachts Orient Express line is launching with their first ship, Corinthian, carrying 108 guests. The regional lines launching are VidantaWorld I mentioned earlier, with the 300-p…

Genoa

Genoa Italy. City of Rich Maritime, Cruising & Ship Building Heritage

…was built here. Genoa was the key port for people travelling from Italy to New York. The hotel today known as Grand Hotel Savoia was where the rich, famous and important would stay before boarding their ships. It is still a glorious and old fashioned hotel that reeks of that era of glamour (as my review and photos show). You could stay there to relive that atmosphere, or at least visit for tea or a drink in the beautiful public rooms. The most fam…

MSC / MSC Preziosa

Tips for Travellers is MSC Cruises Official Travel Blogger: Launch of MSC Preziosa

…p christening through various social media channels. Kelley Ferro lives in New York city and is a travel host, filmmaker, and executive producer for Tripfilms.com, the web’s largest travel video site. Kelley’s travel assignments have brought her face to face with sharks in Australia, taken her to hidden markets in Istanbul, and seen her surfing the waves of Ipanema Beach. Kelley’s goal is to find the “soul of a place” and she does this by trying t…

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Too Many Repositioning Cruisers Get These 5 Things Wrong

…editerranean, and reposition with a stop or two in Iceland, Greenland, and New York on their way to the Caribbean. Like friends did on Holland America Nieuw Statendam last year. It amazed me on the ones I did how many people I met did not like sea days but still booked due to the price, or had only been port intensive cruises with no sea days and were finding them boring. I found the people who were enjoying repositioning cruises saw the ship more…

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I’ve Done 15 Caribbean Cruises. Here’s What No-One’s Telling You!

…warming oceans. Despite all of this – the crowds, commercialisation, rising crime concerns, changes in weather – the Caribbean remains one of the most appealing and magical places to cruise. It still has stunning beaches, beautiful sea, warm turquoise water, easy access from Florida, Texas, New York, and even Europe, and that irresistible promise that I can escape cold, damp winters for sunshine and warmth. And I live that we can cruise the Caribb…

Should You Only Book Cruises Via A Cruise Agent

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Should You Be Using A Cruise Agent To Book Your Cruise?

…them to sort it out. They eventually came back to me and they’d arranged a new hotel and new flight time, and I hadn’t worried about all that stress. Future cruise credit use The third reason for using a cruise agent is a no brainer. If you have had cruises cancelled, and you’ve got future cruise credit, a cruise agent will be very happy to pick those future cruise credits up as you plan. Because the agents are so important to them, the cruise lin…

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I Cruise Silversea To See If Its New Owners Have Ruined It

…out what. It may be because the fleet has grown since takeover, with five new ships entering service at time of recording (Silver Moon, Silver Dawn, Silver Nova, Silver Origin, and Silver Endeavour). It is a bigger operation and so likely the pre-takeover Silversea crew are dispersed and diluted across the fleet, with lots of new crew. Also, versus what I remember, the visibility of the senior crew was low and even when about interaction and enga…