Cruise Blogs - Page 35

The fact that we aren’t going anywhere means all we can think about is going everywhere. We can’t be the only ones. With more time on our hands, lots more, we’ve fallen down a rabbit hole of holiday dreaming and armchair travel. With more cruises cancelled for 2020, we’re looking…

While we’re at home and the Royal Princess crew are on board, cruise director Marcus (and a few special guests…) decided that now was as good a time as any to take you on a behind-the-scenes tour of the fleet favourite. If you wondered what the Princess Cruises crew are…

It’s the highlight of a Mediterranean cruise itinerary and with good reason. Barcelona has it all. Architecture that wouldn’t look out of place in the storybooks, thanks to the whimsical ways of Antoni Gaudí, and a labyrinthine Gothic Quarter that was once frequented by more gaggles of geese than throngs…

We’ve been baking our way through lockdown with Culinary Corner recipes from some of our favourite cruise lines but we can’t deny it any longer; we deserve a drink. Avid P&O Cruises fans may recognise the Raspberry Creme Brûlée, a cocktail that’s arguably one of the most popular tipples on…

If there’s one place to which we can’t wait to return, it’s Italy. We’re desperate for that first sip of inky espresso and those plates of gloopy pasta licked with rich ragu. We’ll open doors to Renaissance masterpieces and spend time in town squares even Hollywood couldn’t do justice. We’re…

Luxury river cruise line AmaWaterways has announced that it is to offer free river cruises to key workers. Described as ‘a gesture of the company’s heartfelt appreciation for the selfless sacrifices made by so many amidst these unprecedented times’ the offer will extend to frontline heroes including medical workers and…

The cruise industry’s governing body, Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), has reassured cruisers over 70 years of age that they should not need to provide doctor’s notes in order to be able to cruise going forward.  While cruise operations are currently suspended across the world, the last update from CLIA…

Before the Panama Canal was completed in 1914 – an exercise which took 30 years – trade ships had little choice but to sail around Cape Horn on the southern tip of South America. While many cruise ships today offer amazing sailings around Cape Horn, the smaller trade ships of…

Right about now, Celebrity Apex should be basking in the sun somewhere in the Mediterranean on her maiden season sailings. You might have been on the new Celebrity Cruises ship, or counting down the days to joining it to criss-cross Caribbean isles later in the year. Sadly, it’s going to…

At 3.30pm, wherever in the world the three Cunard Queens may be, the clock chimes for Afternoon Tea in the Queens Room. Time-honoured and quintessentially British, the parade of fine china, silver platters, white gloves and warm scones, set to the tinkering of a Grand piano, is a signature sea…