Going To Work Abroad

 Thank you to all my passengers who have booked their cruise holiday with me. I have decided to take up a fabulous work opportunity abroad. All current active bookings or future enquiries will be dealt with by my colleagues Liz Kelly & Jessica Kirby.

   

Liz has 3 years experience in the travel industry and Jessica has travelled extensively and loves cruising, so I can confidently say you are in safe hands!

Please feel free to contact Liz for any reason on0800 408 6114 or email lizk@cruise.co.uk or Jessica on 0800 408 6065 or email jessicak@cruise.co.uk – they will both be delighted to help you. 

You can also find out more about them by visiting their blogs and see comments from many of their own satisfied customers by visiting their blog.http://landahoyliz.co.uk and http://www.jessicacruise.blogspot.com/ 

Many thanks to you all for making it so enjoyable.

Dietary requests onboard your cruise

This has become more and more important and cruise lines are wanting this information earlier each year, as we are all very different and there are much more dietary and medical requests that passengers have, It is now very important that we as agents are told about these as early as possible, ideally at the time of booking. Cruising is the one of the most popular holiday destinations now and many more people are cruising than ever before. Cruise lines are very conscious of making sure every single person is looked after to the very best level and one of the many areas they like to succeed in is making sure all dietary and medical requirements are catered for. However they can only do this if they have been notified with enough time to pass on these direct to the ship. Many requirements include Gluten free diet, Vegetarian diet, Halal request can only eat Brussels etc etc the list is endless. So remember if you do have a special request let your agent know at the time of booking so that they can notify the cruise line straight away and give the ship the information way in advance. The last thing you don’t want to be doing is joining the ship and finding out that your requirement is not possible. These guys are amazing and will always try and accommodate every request.




Good luck and don't forget to let us know

Why book with Cruise.Co.Uk ?

As many of you have probably heard by now Gills Travel will sadly no longer be taking bookings for most cruise lines, they were a very established cruise agent having sold cruises for over 50 years. Now there will be many people very worried today that they may lose their cruise, don't worry though I hear most of your bookings will be covered by ABTA. Also I am very sure Gills had many thousands of very loyal customers that were given excellent prices with great customer service included. Now these customers are now going to have to find another cruise agent that will offer the same, now that's where we come in. Cruise.Co.Uk is a very established cruise agent that has been in business many years, we have been voted world's best cruise agent for the last 2 years which must say something for our company. We also have some of the most experienced cruise agents in the business with many agents having worked on ships for many years, you just cant beat experience like that. We are very knowledgeable about the ins and outs of cruise ships, so will always do our best to put customers on the right ship.It is not always in our benefit to just get customers the lowest price, it is more important to get customers the right ship. Of course we offer fantastic value for money and will offer you all that invaluable advice. We also take customer service very seriously and have many ways that you can get through to each individual cruise agent, including a direct free phone number to each agent, we also have our very own cruise blog where customers can read up on each cruise agent, customers can also follow us and contact us through our very large forum site, Twitter and Face book.I believe it is very important that customers can always speak to their personal cruise agent at any time, we as agents also look after every single part of the cruise booking, from making the booking to wishing the client Bon Voyage a couple of days before they travel. We will also call the clients back a couple of days after their cruise to follow up how things went, now what other agent delivers all this?
So yes it is very unfortunate for all those connected to Gills and we wish everyone of them the very best for the future, but rest assured Cruise.Co.Uk will be ready to offer you service that is second to none.
Why not give us a try thousands already have.

NCL Adds Surcharge for Late-Night Room Service

Yes it is a headline to catch your attention but in all honestly if you read the below announcement you will find the charge is only for passengers wanting to order room service late at night, infact 1:00am in the morning. Lets face it how many of you would be wanting to eat anymore food after all the amazing choices you have already set your eyes on that would already have been included in the cruise price. I can understand where the cruise lines are coming from, there has been many a time when I used to work on ships where I would have ordered room service late at night fell asleep before the food already arrived. Think of the food wastage at this time of night, I know I have been prone to leaving most of the food I have ordered late at night and have never thought of the consequences. So at the end of the day this new change is only going to effect a very small minority of passengers.

$40 Million Facelift: Check out the lucky ship.....

Wow what an amount of money to spend on a refit, Celebrity are really sending out the big guns for this ship, I guess as it was the first in it's class they really want to look after her. I remember in the good old days a whole ship would cost this much. I have to say I am a fan of Celebrity especially it's Solstice class. I went down to visit the Equinox a couple of years ago and found it stunning.

Have a read below and see all the changes that are going to be made.

Cunard's Queen Mary 2 Flunks CDC Inspection

So how clean is your ship?, well apparently the QM2 is not as clean as you would expect !
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made a surprise visit to the ship and found some very interesting things onboard.
Read below to find out exactly what..............................................




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Put It Out: Updates to smoking policy

Oh dear here we go again, cruise lines making it even more difficult for us smokers to enjoy what I have to say is a legal substance that makes governments all across the world plenty of money. Don't even get me started on this one

Anyway before I start really kicking off have a read below at some new smoking policies being introduced this month