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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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… […]
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 […]
The purpose of this post is to give a ‘plug’ to a new Facebook page I have set up called ‘River Cruising Community’… https://www.facebook.com/groups/432126450634189/ …with the aim of generating discussion, […]
Prior to embarking on a recent cruise from Los Angeles my wife and I chose to spend the previous night on board Queen Mary at Long Beach… ***** Once […]
The Indonesian island of Bali is a tourist’s dream, offering a wide variety of culture, religion, excellent scenery, beaches and fine temperatures. It is also an island of many parts […]
A self confessed Cruiseaholic...... with barely enough funds to support his passion!
Cruises, cruising, and cruise news by Tom Burke
Welcome aboard and nice to meet you. My wife and I are seasoned cruisers having first dipped our toes into the world of cruising in 1990, a one week cruise on board the Cunard Countess. The majority of our cruising has been with two cruise lines, Cunard and P&O. We have, however, sailed on 21 different cruise ships, some many times over, on 11 different cruise lines while completing 619 cruise nights on board.