Spoof Titanic 3d Trailer

Hi all. It's a miserable Sunday afternoon with the wind and rain hammering at my window, (fingers crossed for you that the weather is better wherever you are!)
As the weather is so bad I thought I'd try and cheer you all up by sharing this spoof Titanic 3D trailer I saw on the Internet, (thanks go to Malcolm for sharing it on our cruise forum).

Happy cruising!

Why can't I book a four berth cabin?

I was speaking to a customer yesterday who was trying to book a last minute deal with Royal Caribbean cruises for a four berth family cabin. The cabin they wanted was available and would sleep four people. However Royal Caribbean would only let them book two people into the cabin. They wouldn't sell the cabin my customer wanted as a four berth.
I explained to the gentleman why he couldn't book it but he wasn't very happy with the explanation.
It occurred to me though that a lot of other people might be confused about this issue so I thought I'd explain it in todays post.

Hurtigruten 2013 brochure

You may or may not have heard of Hurtigruten. I've written numerous posts on them in the past which you can read by clicking here. By now you should all know I'm a huge fan of them. If you're looking to experience the 'real Norway', at any time of the year, then there's no better cruise line than Hurtigruten.
They can go where no else goes, at times of the year that one else offers and you can book some truly unique shore excursions with them; from husky sledding to an ovenight stay in an ice hotel!
I've enclosed their 2013 cruise brochure for you to have a look at online. Feel free to email me if you have any questions or you want to book something.

Happy cruising.

Funny road sign

One of the things I like so much about working for cruise.co.uk is that we don't have a customer service team. Everything is handled by me, from a clients initial quote, to booking their cruise, then any problems or changes on the lead up to their cruise and welcoming them home after as well. It's all done by one person, (me), and the customer has access to my direct telephone number and email address if they need to reach me.
What this means is that I really get to know my passengers; I had one lady who rang up today to book her fourth cruise with me who said it's like ringing an old family friend.
This means that a lot of my clients sometimes just call up for a chat or like to share joke emails they've been sent with me and I thought I'd share this one with you as I found it so funny.

Well that's a bit of a drag

You may remember a post I wrote awhile back about how Azamara were offering a swingers cruise in 2013, (you can read the post here).
As I said in this post this type of theme cruise is quite common, normally with one company chartering the ship and then selling on all the cabins.
However I came across a themed cruise this morning that is on general sale which means there may be a large percentage of people onboard unaware of the theme.
What do you think of this?

Interesting cruise infographic

I was browsing on the internet earlier when I came across this interesting infographic that I thought I'd share with you all. If you scroll down it's got some really interesting facts about Royal Caribbean, Disney cruises and Holland America as well as interesting points about cruising in general.

Happy cruising

Star Clipper facts

It doesn't take a genius reading this blog to know I'm a huge fan of Star Clipper cruises, (click here to see some previous posts about them).
I was talking to a rep from Star Clippers a couple of weeks ago who gave me a couple of interesting facts about them I'd never heard before. Naturally I thought I'd share them with you........

All the 2013/2014 cruise season in one place

The marketing team at cruise.co.uk just keep getting better and better.
Not content with bringing you the complete cruise brochure year after year, (see my post on it here), they've now put together a complete brochure of almost every single cruise for the 2013/2014 cruising season. To my knowledge this is the first time anyones ever attempted anything so large so please be kind if you do spot any little errors.
If you're already on our database it should be landing on your doormats soon, if you're not feel free to email me and I'll get one posted out to you but, specially for all my readers if you want a sneak peek you can have a look at the online version below.

Happy cruising.

80% discount; but how will they re-coop it?

It's just been announced that Costa cruises will be discounting the price of most of their future cruises by up to 80%. As you're all probably aware the Costa Concordia sank recently and Costa Cruises are obviously trying to entice people back to the brand.
But will it be enough?

Hats off to an amazing cruise passenger!

I booked a cruise for a couple about two months ago. I'm not going to mention their names here without their permission but I just wanted to let you all know how amazing I think this couple are.

St Maartens airport...........

I saw a video of St Maarten airport on Youtube earlier whilst I was researching a cruise for a client and had to ask the question; is this the scariest airport you've ever flown into/out of?

Weirdest coincidence ever

I like to think I'm a rational man; I'm not religious, I'm not superstitious and I don't believe in fate. A coincidence to me has always just been a coincidence. Sometimes a coincidence is so big though it does just leave you thinking, "hmmmmm, that was weird!"

Port holes vs picture window

I've written a few posts in the past about the benefits of a balcony cabin. I even wrote a post recently about an inside cabin, (see here), but the humble outside cabin quite often gets overlooked by both cruisers and cruise lines alike.For the right kind of person though an outside cabin can be the perfect compromise.

Cruise expert or cruise geek?

How do you define an 'expert'? What's the dictionary definition of an expert?
Who's opinion would you trust?
I'm thinking about this because I was watching a show the other night that mentioned the definition of an expert was someone who had spent over 10,000 hours on one particular subject.
Being the geek I am a quick bit of maths work followed and I'm ashamed to say I can probably only get to about 5,000 hours talking about/studying/booking/sailing on/ thinking about cruises.
So does this mean I can no longer call myself a cruise expert?