St. John’s, a city on Newfoundland island off Canada’s Atlantic coast, has become a very popular port visit for cruise ships visiting Canada. It is the capital of Newfoundland and […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

  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… […]

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 […]

    My wife and I have recently returned from our first experience with Princess cruises: a 15 night round trip Los Angeles  to Hawaii on board Star Princess… As […]

In line with my policy of only reviewing cruises, port visits and events that I have personally undertaken,  I’m pleased to announce that over the weekend I  attended, as a […]

Some time ago, while on a cruise ship port visit to Grand Cayman, we were sitting in the Margaritaville Bar in George Town and could not help noticing the fun a […]

My wife and I have recently returned from back-to-back cruises over Christmas and the New Year centred on  New Orleans. The first stage of this festive adventure saw us flying […]

    When initially booking this cruise it was hard to decide whether our minds classed it as a cruise or an adventure. Certainly we had never ventured into this […]