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Tips For Travellers Group Cruises

Tips For Travellers Group Cruises – Come Sail With Me!

…ely. Here are my Tips For Travellers group cruises July 2027: Queen Mary 2 Transatlantic Crossing (ON SALE NOW) Bookings are open for my 2027 Group Cruise. It is a Cunard Queen Mary 2 Transatlantic Crossing departing New York on 23 July and arriving in Southampton on 30 June. To find out more and how to book visit: https://www.tipsfortravellers.com/2027-group-cruise/ January / February 2026: 15-Night Panama Canal Group Cruise SOLD OUT I hosted a g…

Cruise Tips

So Many People Have The Wrong Idea About Cunard Cruise Line. Here’s Why.

…ke a sorbet Baked Alaska. The table next to us, on our recent Queen Mary 2 Transatlantic. ordered off-menu every day. Things like steak tartar, roast chicken, and various curries. Also, in the Grills items like Dover sole or crepe Suzettes and Cherries Flambe are prepared table side by one of the Maire D’s with grand performances. This does not happen in Britannia Restaurant. Cabin Options The second and most obvious perk is having a bigger cabin…

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The Top 10 Most Popular Travel Posts

…do” travel tips by destination. Classic journeys: Classic, famous journeys on luxury modes of travel. Since tracking views in 2010, these are the 10 most popular posts to date based on Google Analytics: Top 10 Ever Topic 1 BA First Class 2 QM2 Transatlantic 3 Virgin Upper Class 4 Queen Victoria Review 5 Virgin LHR Lounge 6 Las Vegas 7 BA Club 8 Seoul Korea 9 St Pancras Eurostar 10 Queen Elizabeth Review I would really appreciate it if you Sign up…

Is Cunard’s $120 “Behind the Scenes” Tour of Queen Elizabeth worth it, or just a waste of time and money?

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Is Cunard’s $120 “Behind the Scenes” Tour of Queen Elizabeth worth it, or just a waste of time and money?

…ns diverting if needed. The only challenge will be if they are well into a Transatlantic and is too far for even helicopters to hop from oil rig to oil rig to get to the ship. Photo and Print Shops These are tiny rooms with very modern equipment. Over 10000 photos are taken in a 2 week cruise by the on-board photographers that are printed. They try and make that as environmentally friendly as they can. Though it did strike me that it would eb bett…

What should you expect when cruising the Caribbean?

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What should you expect when cruising the Caribbean?

…t tends to be too rough and is too cold for people to book on their famous transatlantic crossings. It fills in the period before they send their ships on their 3 month round the world cruises from January to March. At the start and end of the Caribbean “season” many cruise lines include Caribbean legs into their ship “repositioning” schedules. My first Caribbean Cruise was part of what is called a “repositioning cruise” on the P&O ship Arcadia. T…

Celebrity / Cruise Ship / transportation

Celebrity Eclipse Review. Ship tour, staterooms, suites and more

…s docked for the day on Halloween Day (31 October), before it set off on a transatlantic repositioning cruise to Miami for the Caribbean Winter Season. Celebrity is part of the 2nd largest Cruise Group (Royal Caribbean) and is their more premium offer. The Celebrity brand has a number of ships of the same class, and are adding more over the coming years. As the photos in this article, and the many that I have posted on Flickr (click here for the a…

Cruise Ship / Cunard / transportation

Cunard Queen Victoria Ship. Review, Photos and Video.

…ou are part of something almost historic. I do think this is driven by the transatlantic habit and schedules that generates a lot of this, and also the fact that the “crossings” do attract celebrity, names and the rich (as well as the regular cruise and ship addict). There is no doubt that Cunard have done an excellent job, in my view at least, in designing and fitting out the inside of the ship in a rich, plush and feel that harks to the romance…

Cunard Queen Victoria: 4 nights cruise May 2008: My Journal

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Cunard Queen Victoria: 4 nights cruise May 2008: My Journal

…ck on the stunning Queen Mary 2 at the end of August on one of the classic Transatlantic Crossings from Southampton to New York. We drove down to Southampton, booking the car into the cruise linked parking (CPS) which is a very good service for all the cruises where they meet you when you pull up to the cruise terminal and then take the cars away. When you arrive the car is parked nearby. In the case of Cunard ships the cars are parked for collect…

Cruise Ship / transportation

Friends Of Dorothy Meetings On-Board Cruise Ships. What Are They?

…racts a fairly significant proportion of gay passengers on their scheduled Transatlantic Crossings. What happens at “friends of Dorothy” meetings? Wild drug taking, excessive drinking, outrageous flirting and generally inappropriate camp behaviour? If that is what you are looking for then you probably should have gone on a different vacation! On mainstream cruise lines the events tend to be more sedate. And usually are reported to be sparsely atte…

Cruising / Journeys / transportation

Cruise Tips And Advice: Why And When Cruising Is Better Than Land Based Vacations

…ter” cruise based on this, and we enjoyed it so much that we then booked a transatlantic crossing on the QE2 for December that year. It was a very rough crossing with 30 and 4 foot waves, but did not put us off. We been on coming up for about 20 cruises since then. Mostly on Cunard that I adore. What do I love about cruising, and what makes it different from other vacations? Being at sea. For me the best part of cruising are the sea days, and will…