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…e lines, and is largely gone although you do see it quite a lot when river cruising, is you’re offered or encouraged to decide if you want to pay them and you can either hand them over as cash to individual members of the crew or into a box where gratuities are pooled. When I started cruising that last one was much more common, you were given envelopes and some guidelines by the cruise line. You put cash in them and give one to each of the members…

…Visiting the bridge and an open bridge used to be a really common part of cruising and it was very easy to get access to the bridge. Some cruise lines do not have any access to the bridge, so there are no bridge tours. Some cruise lines will allow access to the bridge in a very controlled manner and normally through a paid-for activities like a behind the scene tour which will include a short visit to the bridge. So, few people actually get onto…

…you’re taking. Now this becomes really important depending on where you’re cruising to. So, for example, drugs such as temazepam or products with codeine, if you’re cruising into the United Arab Emirates, and particularly disembarking there, will end up a real issue because those are banned. Also, if you’re heading to a place like Japan – even some fairly innocuous things like Tylenol (arthritis medication), or even Sudafed (cold and flu remedy) b…

…imes when kids are most likely to be in school. For example, I really like cruising in November time into very early December, I like cruising in February, from mid-January but certainly February times are really great times to go, and June are really good times. Periods around those, just take a look if there’s any big half-term holidays or whatever, but those are the months that I really, really like to cruise because the chance of there being k…