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THERE ARE ONLY SEVEN SEAS. BUT HAVE YOU COUNTED THE NUMBER OF RIVERS IN THE WORLD?

The world of holiday-making, as you probably know, can be said to be divided into those who take sea cruises, and those who haven't yet wised-up to the matchless value cruising offers. Let's assume you're in the wised-up corner. Maybe you've done a ... Read >

Goodbye Package Holidays. Hello Cruise Industry.

How did that come about? And how did it come about with – even today – most people not noticing? It's a remarkable transformation. Once upon a time, in the not too distant past, folk went on package holidays. Now they don't. They go cruising instead. W... Read >

THE MAGIC OF DISNEY, ON DISNEY MAGIC

In July 2010, my husband and I were lucky enough to visit the Disney Magic cruise ship in Dover, along with 100 other travel agents. The ship had just returned from a Baltic cruise. That evening she was starting her repositioning trip to Barcelona to cont... Read >

ISRAEL, EGYPT AND ANCIENT TREASURES

This was it, the big one. The one we'd been waiting for, the one we had been looking forward to so much. And it didn't disappoint. We had a brilliant time. It confirmed, yet again, that one of the things I really like about cruising is its leisurely pace.... Read >

ALASKA, THE ULTIMATE CRUISING DESTINATION - YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN!

Alaska is full of surprises. For a start, it's one of the largest rain forests in the world with 162 inches of rainfall a year. It is incredibly beautiful, incredibly spectacular and incredibly vast. It appears to be an endless wilderness. Everywhere you ... Read >

6 Reasons For A First Cruise

5 Reasons Why To Go On A Cruise Holiday If you haven't been on a luxury cruise before, then you are in for a real luxury treat and one that is affordable to all of us and not merely reserved for the wealthy. Times have changed for the better from tho... Read >

A River Cruise On An Ocean Liner

There's a saying in German to wish someone well: halten Sie eine Handbreite des Wassers unter Ihrem Kiel - keep a hands breadth of water under your keel. And when you float a 122,000-ton ship out of the shipyard into the tiny river Ems, that saying as ... Read >

Alaska Cruise - A personal Account

So, who would have believed our May spectacular to Alaska would produce everything required, including great weather? And not only for our group. The earlier unaccompanied group, on the first sailing in May, had even more sunshine. This trip was, for R... Read >

Celebrity Solstice Review

Solstice, the brand new addition to the Celebrity fleet,has finally arrived and the only word to describe her Is phenomenal! I was lucky enough to be invited to Miami to see her first-hand and what an experience it was. Solstice is 122,000 tonnes and t... Read >