One Way to do Salerno
Salerno is a port city southeast of Naples, Italy, and is often utilised by cruise ships for visits to Pompeii, Herculaneum, Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast. Indeed, Salerno is often […]
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MSC Preziosa – Yacht Club Experience
My wife and I have recently returned from a cruise that gave us our first experience sailing with MSC…. …onboard the MSC Preziosa… ***** …and a chance to evaluate […]
One Way to do Darwin
This review of Darwin has come about following news of the diversion of Queen Mary 2 from the Asian leg of her World Cruise due to the Corona Virus outbreak. […]
Fifty Shades of Green – Laos Mekong River Cruise
My wife and I have recently returned from a 10 night river cruise downstream along the upper reaches of the Mekong River, the world’s tenth longest river, between Chiang […]
One Way to do Mahe, Seychelles.
Earlier this year during a cruise across the Indian Ocean we made a stop at Port Victoria… …on the Island of Mahe – the largest island in the Seychelles archipelago: that’s […]
Saga’s Spirit of Discovery A 16 Night Cruise
My wife and I have recently returned from a 16 night cruise onboard Saga’s newest ship, the Spirit of Discovery… Welcome to Boutique Cruising… We first became interested in this […]
One Way to do Manila
Manila, the capital of the Philippines, is a densely populated bayside city on the island of Luzon, which mixes Spanish colonial architecture with modern skyscrapers. Its popularity as a cruise […]
Arcadia’s Canadian Round Trip
On Monday 16 September 2019 my wife and I set sail from Southampton onboard P&O’s ‘Adult Only’ cruise ship Arcadia. We were taking a 24 night round trip to […]
One Way to do Cape Town
Cape Town is a well known tourist hotspot and ever popular cruise ship destination. One of its attractions to cruise ship passengers is that it offers them the opportunity to […]
One Way to do Colombo
Earlier this year my wife and I visited the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, as a port of call while sailing onboard Cunard’s cruise ship, Queen Victoria… This was the first […]
One Way to do Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City)
A favourite port of call when cruise ships visit Vietnam is Saigon, now officially known as Ho Chi Minh City, though in matter of fact the nearest docking point for […]
Queen Victoria Singapore to Cape Town
My wife and I have recently returned from a 19 night cruise onboard Cunard’s Queen Victoria sailing between Singapore and Cape Town in South Africa… The choice of […]
India’s Golden Triangle
In recent years a popular add-on to many Middle East and Indian Ocean cruises has been an inclusive guided tour of India’s Golden Triangle… …and certainly looking ahead […]
RV Rajmahal River Ganges Cruise.
My wife and I have recently returned from a river cruise onboard the RV Rajmahal… …along India’s River Ganges between Farakka and Kolkata… As part of the overall travel […]
Viking Kadlin from Paris to the Heart of Normandy
My wife and I have recently returned from our 8th Viking cruise which on this occasion was on the Viking Kadlin sailing along the River Seine between Paris to Normandy… […]
One Way to do Hawaii – O’ahu Edition
Earlier this year my wife and I visited the Hawaiian Islands while cruising onboard Star Princess… https://solentrichardscruiseblog.com/2018/04/01/star-princess-hawaiian-islands-adventure/ The Hawaiian Islands are an archipelago of eight major islands, several atolls […]
