One month to go - inside Symphony of the Seas

One month to go – inside Symphony of the Seas

The arrival of the world’s largest ship, Symphony of the Seas, is just around the horizon with the Royal Caribbean ship passing the first ...

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Day Ten: National Geographic Orion cruise blog

Day Ten – Lo – “National Geographic Orion is different from other expedition ships because it’s also quite luxurious.” As the ship continued its inaugural ...

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Day Nine: National Geographic Orion cruise blog

Day 9 – Espirito Santo: It was now the ninth day on National Geographic Orion’s inaugural voyage and we continued to make our way ...

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20 things you don’t know about Royal Princess

Princess Cruises has announced ’20 new things you don’t know about Royal Princess‘ at Cruise Shipping Miami this week ahead of her launch in June. ...

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Carnival Liberty Day 3: A Mexican Paradise

Sailing into Cozumel was very exciting for this Mexican first timer. A mariachi band could be heard in the distance and I had a ...

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Carnival Liberty Day 2: A Fun Day at Sea

With a plethora of activities onboard Carnival Liberty on a 'fun day at sea', the most stressful part of my day is deciding what to do!

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Carnival Liberty Day 1: A fun ship first timer

Boarding Carnival Liberty in Port Miami is an experience to say the least...but the long lines do give me a chance to take advantage of the free WiFi available!

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Norwegian Sky Day 4: It’s all Greek to me

After such a jam packed day and night in Great Stirrup Cay, I was relatively glad I didn’t have too much planned for my day in Nassau, a sleep in was very much needed!

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Norwegian Sky Day 3: Great Stirrup Cay

Regardless of the myriad of ports visited by cruise lines, my favourite always remains the same...a tropical island. Give me sunshine and a postcard perfect beach and I am in heaven!

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Norwegian Sky, Day 2 – It’s a Freeport Life

Being a fan of spending time onboard a ship when sailing, I selected our first port of call, Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, to relax on deck and get to know the Norwegian Sky a little bit better.

Avalon Luminary River

Avalon Luminary River Cruise, Part 6: Antwerp & Brussels, Belgium

Our Avalon river ship docked almost in the heart of Antwerp, the second-largest city in Belgium and the second-argest seaport in Europe.

Avalon Luminary River

Avalon Luminary River Cruise, Part 5: Belgium

After our usual buffet breakfast we boarded our coaches for a short ride to the city centre of Ghent.

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Norwegian Sky, Part 1: Cruising like a Norwegian

What exactly does it mean to ‘Cruise like a Norwegian’? I'm spending a week discovering what this term means aboard the Norwegian Sky in the Bahamas.

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Avalon Luminary River Cruise, Part 3: Tulip Gardens

After visiting the windmills of Kinderdijk we returned to Avalon Luminary for lunch.

QM2 up to bridge

QM2 – An English Restaurant?

Sometimes the English language is just too complicated. Cunard is a very English sort of shipping line (and certainly not a mere cruise line).

QM2 Down

QM2 Down Under: Day 2 Pub Grub with a Queen

For some passengers the most British element of a QM2 cruise is the dulcet tones of the Commodore giving us the ship’s noonday position.

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