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Mouse in Manhattan

Guests are welcomed aboard the Disney Dream with €Sailing Away,€ an extra- special show starring favourite Disney characters complete with high-energy music and lots of dancing. (Matt Stroshane, photographer)

Brightly lit in neon red and electric blue, and with searchlights crisscrossing in the night sky, Disney Fantasy made her official debut on New York’s Hudson River

QM2 Down Under Day 1

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My feet hurt. I’ve only been on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 for about three hours and I think I’ve walked a marathon course just having a quick look around.

Welcome Love Boat Captain

Captain Stubing aka Gavin Macleod

Once upon a time (about 35 years ago), a shipload of explorers set a course for adventure, their minds on a new romance, as the opening song goes.

Formal nights going out of style?

One of the internet’s most frequent bloggers, a Cruise Director on a Carnival ship,

RSSC Voyager: Day 8

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Last night was my last on the ship, and very convivial it was too; drinks at the Observation Lounge on Deck 11 followed by yet another excellent dinner at Compass Rose with Julie and Joanne, my Voyager friends from San Antonio, Texas. A few farewell libations at the Connoisseur Club and then it was off [...]

RSSC Voyager, Day 7

Akaroa Dolphin Tours

Voyager pulled into the large natural harbour of Akaroa early in the morning. Its name in Maori means ‘Long Harbour’ and it’s the oldest colonial town in the South Island

RSSC Voyager: Day 6

Woodbury, near Geraldine

Our first land stop after Hobart and five days at sea was Timaru, a major port in the south Canterbury region of the South Island of NZ

RSSC Voyager: Day 5

Afternoon tea in the Horizon Lounge

The calm after the storm: highlights of this, my fifth day at sea, were all about food, future shore excursions, food, entertainment, and food and top-quality wines.

RSSC Voyager: Day 4

Milford Sound on a good day

‘Scenic sailing’ in Milford Sound was on the menu today, and indeed we were treated to the sight of magnificent rock faces and waterfalls looming through the mist.

Regent Seven Seas Cruises Voyager: Day 3

Cool musical duo

I haven’t spent so many days at sea before and the seas are definitely becoming a little rougher,