…l My next tip is make sure that you get to the port where you’re joining a cruise the day before the cruise. Don’t aim to arrive the day that your cruise departs as anything could disrupt your travel. If you miss the cruise leaving it’s going to be at your own costs, and stress and hassle, to join the ship later on. Excursions If you go on excursions through the Cruise Line, it could add a huge amount of money onto your cruise fare. What I like to…
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…nderstand is when you book a cruise, you are automatically agreeing to the cruise line cruise contract, and terms and conditions, there are many, many traps, and things that you could trip up on without even realising. First, cruise lines have age and various restrictions around, for example, how young kids can be before they can come on or certain rules around if you’re a certain stage of pregnancy when you can come on board. I’ve found that it d…
…herwise. Most cruise lines require some notification before you get on the cruise of any issues you’ve got. On some cruise lines for example, if you want kosher or halal, they might need 45 to 90 days warning in order to cater for you properly! If you have any really serious allergies (for example nut allergies). which could be pretty catastrophic, really important that you make sure you tell them at least 45 days to 90 days in advance, maybe abou…
…quare feet to suites that are 300 square feet or larger, on a luxury river cruise. Barge cruise cabins However, on a barge, your bedroom is just a place to sleep and get ready. The cabins are pretty small. So, again, we’ll just take an example of the one I had on Deborah, where there were two single beds, lots of storage space (very cleverly put in above the bed), a little seating area with a dressing table area, and a bathroom. The bathroom was a…
…. These are sites that collect together all the really big cruising deals. Cruisesheet.com, cruisedeals.com and vacationstogo.com will have the absolute best deals. You simply look at the month you want to cruise, and you’ll find it shows you the total price of cruise. Plus, the price per day. You can then zone in on those that meet your budget. As you’ll see, sometimes you can get cruises for even less than $50 per person per day. To make it even…
…ish market. They also have a joint venture, a 50-50 joint venture with TUI Cruises. TUI Cruises is big within Germany, and they have ships right throughout Europe. The other cruise brand within Royal Caribbean is Azamara. Azamara is a smaller ship cruise line, and they really focus on the destinations. They talk a lot about destination immersion. So, as part of the Royal Caribbean family, they are their small ship premium destination-focused brand…
…ns Many fellow passengers, cruise writers, bloggers and vloggers encourage cruisers to use cruise line excursions, mostly as the line says the ship will wait if any of their excursions are delayed getting back before sailaway time. While this is a plus, I do think using cruise line excursions is an overrated tip these days. Why? First, cruise line excursions are usually the costliest way of exploring any port. Cruise lines do not run their excursi…
…anywhere else – are the people who’ve never cruised but were considering a cruise. Cruise lines have historically been extremely aggressive at recruiting new-to-cruise. That was really the life blood, bringing people onboard a cruise, getting them hooked on cruising. Most of their marketing spend, and the work they did with agents on promotions and incentives was all around attracting new-to-cruise business. Every time I talk to a cruise agency, t…
…wegian fjords?” The answer is both because they are very different. Photo: CruiseMiss – CruiseMiss.com #3 So Far Inland The third thing I want to talk about, which is one of the most surprising things about doing a Norwegian fjords cruise, is how far inland the ships sail. Even on the big ships, I have been to the likes of Skjolden on the Queen Elizabeth, which was 135 miles inland. And recently on Disney Magic into Eidfjord, which was over 110 mi…
…ots of progress in the UK, what Caribbean ports are saying and doing about cruises calling again, cruise lines cash burn and much, much more. This is another of my Tips For Travellers cruise updates, where I will unpick the biggest breaking cruising news, and discuss what it means for all of us as cruisers. You can watch this as a cruise update video on my YouTube channel. CDC No-Cruise Advisory First up, I want to discuss the latest move by the C…
