Malacca is one of those places that have always intrigued me and imaging first my delight, and then disappointment, when we booked a cruise onboard Cunard’s Queen Victoria that initially […]

Šibenik is a city on the Adriatic coast of Croatia that has only recently accepted visits from larger cruise ships..       Without  doubt Šibenik has probably one of […]

  Earlier this year my wife and I took our first Saga river cruise which was selected purely on the itinerary along a European river we had  not cruised before, […]

My wife and I have recently returned from the maiden voyage of Cunard’s latest addition, Queen Anne.     ******* We had originally booked the maiden voyage in June 2022 […]

My wife and I have recently returned from our first experience with the Azamara Cruise Line. We had chosen Azamara Onward partially due to its image as a destination cruise […]

My wife and I have recently completed a 7 night  Norwegian destination cruise onboard the MSC Virtuosa. Regular readers will recall that we had already cruised on the ship some […]

The Croatian seaport of Zadar is fast becoming a popular stop for medium and smaller sized cruise ships…   …and, as my wife and I found, is an exciting place […]

My wife and I have recently returned from a 9 night Celebrity Silhouette cruise…   …sailing to France and Spain from Southampton. We chose this particular cruise purely for its itinerary […]

My wife and I have recently returned from an entirely different style cruising that had been on our ‘bucket list’ for some considerable time. Indeed, we had originally booked this […]

My wife and I have recently returned from our second successful cruise aboard an MSC ship, The Virtuosa… We joined the ship in Dubai on a package that included  a […]

This was our second attempt at sailing on P&O’s latest addition to their fleet having had her ‘Original Maiden’ cancelled due to the dreaded Covid pandemic. This particular cruise was […]

This was one river cruise that proved a long time coming. Originally booked in 2019 for a cruise date of October 2020 the rest is history. Intended to be the […]

Having never subscribed to the view that one can make a valid judgement on a cruise ship or cruise line from a 3-day short cruise, I’ve always believed  that to […]

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 […]

  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 16 night cruise onboard Saga’s newest ship, the Spirit of Discovery… Welcome to Boutique Cruising… We first became interested in this […]