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7 Things Every First-Time Cruise Passenger Should Know When I started cruising, I made loads of mistakes. And it saddens me that when I go cruising today, I meet so many first-time cruisers still making...
There’s A Lot That Can Go Wrong On An Alaska Cruise The stakes are high. For you it may be a once in a lifetime trip you’ve been dreaming of. Or if you’re returning and...
What Went Right And Wrong On My Alaska Cruise? Before the pandemic shutdown, I booked a North to South Alaska cruise on Princess Cruises, from Whittier, near Anchorage to Vancouver. Firstly, because I thought the...
8 Cruise Line Secrets Staring Us In The Face It was 10 o’clock in the evening on a Viking cruise. I was chatting to the cruise director when an innocuous announcement came over the tannoy...
10 Smart Things To Do If Crossing The Atlantic on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 On my first Cunard Transatlantic crossing, an English couple on the restaurant table next to me were desperate to get off...
What’s Queen Mary 2 Like Today? The Good, Bad & Baffling My heart sank as I boarded Queen Mary 2 in Southampton, for my first trip in around 8 years, a Transatlantic Crossing. I spotted...
3 Biggest Cunard Transatlantic Crossing Fears Explored There are seven back-to-back sea days on a Cunard Queen Mary 2 Transatlantic crossing. Not surprisingly, one big fear many have about doing a transatlantic is getting bored...
How to get a cabin upgrade on a cruise: 9 ways that work for me I get upgraded more than most cruise passengers because I don’t use the most common ways other cruisers chase upgrades....
Top Cruise Vloggers on YouTube right now Here it is! The Top Cruise Vloggers on YouTube right now. I have updated the list of all 124 cruise vlog channels on YouTube that I am aware...
Things That Make No Sense On A Cruise Ship This was all sparked by a swimming pool on Virgin Voyages Scarlett Lady. Just after I boarded, I was looking at the pool wondering why on...
12 Things You Should Never Do In Your Cruise Cabin A German couple, Renate and her husband Volker, were thrown off a Mein Schiff cruise for something they did in their cruise cabin that they...
7 Pieces Of Cruise Advice That Will Ruin Your Cruise If I had followed these 7 pieces of cruise advice on recent cruises, I wouldn’t have made it to one, overpaid for another, booked the...
Easy-to-Make Cruise Packing Mistakes I want to look at 11 things that you really shouldn’t forget to pack before you set out on your cruise. Starting with the three obvious things that you need...
Port day essentials When we head out in port on an excursion or self-exploring, we don’t assume that things are going to go wrong – we always assume that we’re going to have a great time....
Discover the 10 Unusual Laws You Could Break While Cruising! A look at unusual laws that you may end up breaking without even realising it when you’re on a cruise. Some of which can...
I explore the reasons for and against using Holland America for your Caribbean cruise. I want to look at a couple of reasons for and a couple of reasons against choosing Holland America for your...
Best Places To Cruise Month By Month? I want to share with you my recommendations on what cruises I think you should do month by month based on the best time to visit a destination....
These are the 9 cruises that are best to book in advance. Find out why When they’re booking a cruise, many people are looking for the best deal, so they’ll time when they book based...