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Join Emily Straw, Bolsover Cruise Club’s Luxury Marketing Specialist as she relives her British Isles experience aboard Silver Spirit. I joined Silver Spirit in Dundee after high winds prevented the ship from pulling into the port of Leith, Edinburgh. After a quick train journey through the beautiful Scottish countryside, I…

Join Bolsover Cruise Club’s Luxury Marketing Specialist, Emily Straw, as she recounts her experience of being among the first to step aboard Regent Seven Seas Cruises new ship Splendor. I have been wishfully writing about Regent Seven Seas Cruises since I started in my Luxury Marketing role at Bolsover Cruise…

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…

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…

When it comes to cruising vicariously, one man capable of transporting us around the world with his stories is Wesley Dunlop. He’s set to take the helm as captain of Iona, the new P&O Cruises ship and the most exciting ever built specifically for the British market. With the ship’s launch delayed…

Buy this, do that, chat to this person, see this… embarkation day can be manic, but it really doesn’t have to be. In fact, many passengers waste the first day of their holiday being stressed about all the things they ‘should’ do on the first day on board. Here’s a…

Milly Johnson isn’t just one of our favourite authors, and a Sunday Times bestseller no less, she’s also an avid cruiser with a penchant for P&O Cruises. We recently interviewed Milly for the next edition of Into The Blue, but in the meantime we decided World Book Day was the…

Sriracha, Poke and Gyros top the list of food items Brits can’t pronounce One in ten UK adults actually refuse to try new food and drink items when abroad due to being unable to pronounce them Veganism, being a fussy eater, and fears around trying new things were also cited…

Royal Caribbean’s founder, Ed Stephan, passed away at the age of 87 last week and while his years in the industry were extensive, his impact on it was immeasurable. Stephan was the founding father of modern-day cruising, a man who envisioned Miami as the epicentre of cruise holidays. In the…