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There are so many choices that have to be made at every stage of your cruise vacation. If you make the wrong choices, like I have done in the past, you and your family won’t have that incredible experience you are dreaming of.
I learnt that enjoyable and memorable cruise vacations don’t happen by chance. They are made and crafted through being well-informed, and then making intelligent choices at every single stage.
That’s why, I set up Tips For Travellers to help travellers who want to get cruising right, the advice, tips and tricks to make it easier to plan and have a memorable experience every time. All my tips draw on everything that I have learnt on the 95 cruises I have done to date.
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From Tips For Travellers. I am back from hosting my first ever Group cruise and ready to talk about that and answer any cruise question or topic you have. So, join me for my 129th live cruise Q&A on Sunday 21 April 5pm UK/ Noon ET/ 9am PT
From Tips For Travellers. I’ve just returned from back-to-back Caribbean cruises on two very different ships, the massive 6,000 passenger Symphony of the Seas and the smaller 1,200 passenger Oceania Vista. And on both, despite their dramatic differences, I was amazed how many people were still getting the same five things wrong that I’ve seen…
From Tips For Travellers. Anyone close to cruising knows that cruise lines are incredibly involved with trains and train travel. Some even own and operate them, including some of the most famous and iconic ones, as you will hear. That’s why they really want us to do three things: book train travel before cruises, during…
From Tips For Travellers. I told my friends not to book the cruise as it was one that I keep warning cruisers to stay well clear of as they almost always disappoint. But they insisted and sadly, three days before they were due to depart, what I feared would happen did. It was cancelled. I’m…
From Tips For Travellers. Join me for my Live Easter Sunday Cruise Q&A: Sunday 31 March 2024: 5pm UK. Noon ET. 9am PT Join me for another of my weekly live cruise question and answer session. During the livestream I will answer cruising questions or discuss any cruising topic or news development that people ask…
From Tips For Travellers. Although most cruise reviewers say there are five, there are strictly speaking only two cruise lines that truly have a “ship-within-a-ship”. A fully self-contained world where passengers paying at least $500 per person a night for a suite are given the special entry card to a door that lets them step…
From Tips For Travellers. Join me for my weekly Live Cruise Q&A. This will be on Sunday 24 March 2023: 5pm UK/ 1pm ET / 10am PT. Note the times in the USA as the UK has not yet changed times. Though next weekend they will so we will be back on to the slightly…
From Tips For Travellers. Four years ago, Royal Caribbean, best known for huge, good value resort ships, surprised many by buying Silversea known for ultra-luxury small ship cruising. Having cruised on it before the takeover, I decided I should return to see if the online reviews from other pre-takeover cruisers saying things like, "Not the…
From Tips For Travellers. Join me just back (literally as will have just landed home in the morning) from my Caribbean Cruises on Oceania Vista and RC Symphony of the Seas for my regular cruise Q&A live. Talking the Caribbean, those lines and ships and anything else you want to ask. Cruise Live Q&A Back…
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From Tips For Travellers. There are five things I took for granted last year as a cruiser that have unexpectedly disappeared this year, the first massive one I experienced first-hand on a recent cruise. I was on the first leg of Silversea Silver Spirit’s 62-night Grand Voyage from Cape Town to Athens via the Seychelles,…
From Tips For Travellers. Subject to Wi-Fi (!) I will be running my weekly live cruise Q&A from my cabin on board Oceania Cruises newest ship Vista. I will have just got off Royal Caribbean to join Oceania and so can talk all things Caribbean cruising, Royal Caribbean and Oceania Sunday 10 March 2023 10pm…
From Tips For Travellers. I used to think of myself as a considerate cruise passenger, trying to be polite and help make the crews’ jobs simpler, easier, and more pleasant. But I’ve had to reappraise what I was doing after a crew member discreetly told me on this cruise that I am on that some…
From Tips For Travellers. Join me for my Live Cruise Q&A from my pre-cruise hotel in Miami: Saturday 2 March 2024: 10pm UK / 5pm ET / 2pm PT. I will be heading off for two back-to-back Caribbean cruises (Symphony of the Seas and Oceania Vista). Join me to talk Caribbean Cruising, or anything else…
From Tips For Travellers. Cunard has the reputation of being the most class-based cruise line sailing today, keeping alive the tradition of grand old ocean liners from the Titanic era had of giving First-Class passengers, or what Cunard now call “The Grills”, a more rounded and top-notch experience vastly superior to that of all other…
From Tips For Travellers. Join me for my Cruise Live Q&A Hour: Saturday 24 February 2024 (5pm UK/ Noon ET / 9am PT) Get any cruise questions answered live! Join me for another of my weekly live cruise question and answer session. During the livestream I will answer cruising questions or discuss any cruising topic…
From Tips For Travellers. Cruise lines charge less per day for repositioning cruises than ANY of their other cruises, making them some of the most inexpensive and appealing to many cruisers. But I’ve met so many people on them discovering too late that being inexpensive alone is not a good reason for doing them, as…
From Tips For Travellers. Join me for another of my Live Cruise Q&A Hour: Sunday 18 February 2024 (5pm UK/ 12 Noon ET / 9am PT) Get any cruise questions answered live! Join me for another of my weekly live cruise question and answer session. During the livestream I will answer cruising questions or discuss…
From Tips For Travellers. I have some tips and tricks that while kids absolutely shouldn’t know about, I’ve found that too few adult cruisers know about them either. Buckle up as I share my sometimes saucy, occasionally naughty, but always eye-opening things only adults like you and me can do, or get away with, when…
From Tips For Travellers. Join me live from my cabin on board Silversea Silver Spirit in South Africa, to answer your questions about the cruise, the line, ship or anything you want to ask me about cruising. Join me on Sunday 4 Feb 6:30pm UK/ 1:30pm ET/ 10:30am PT (which will be 8:30pm in South…
From Tips For Travellers. I met so many regular Norwegian cruisers on my Norwegian Viva cruise that disliked this new Prima class of Norwegian Cruise Line ships that I started wondering if Norwegian had actually gone out of their way to create a new type of ship they knew current cruisers wouldn’t like! Perhaps to…
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From Tips For Travellers. Just before my much anticipated and costly $1,800 a night cruise in Norwegian Viva’s all-suite Haven, “Cruise with Ben and David”, one of the leading YouTube cruise channels, released a critical review raising many issues and complaints about it. So many that friends of mine suggested I cancel, as they knew…
From Tips For Travellers. Welcome to 2024 and a return of my first cruise live Q&A hour. I hope you will join me on Sunday 21 January 2024 at 5pm UK, Noon ET. and 9am PT where I will answer as many of your questions as possible about cruising this year (or anything else you…
From Tips For Travellers. While Cruise lines make it easy and convenient to book and buy most things for a cruise directly with them, have you stopped to ask if it’s in your best interest? I have! Cruise lines are banking on us not shopping around and discovering that some non-cruise line alternatives not only…
From Tips For Travellers. I reveal 5 tips, tricks and hacks that experienced and smart cruise passengers that I have met on recent cruises agree are ones that savvy cruisers all use and know about – but not everyone does to knows about! For bonus & exclusive content (including videos, articles, eBooks and more) become…
From Tips For Travellers. After listening to what cruise lines are telling investors they’re doing this year, I’m convinced that in 2024 we are going to be facing five new and unwelcome challenges. But I also have some suggestions on how to work around these and get ahead of them, including one solution that you…
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From Tips For Travellers. I look at the four times I recommend cruise passengers take a cruise line excursion rather than any other alternative for exploring a cruise port like self-touring or independent tour guide or company For bonus & exclusive content (including videos, articles, eBooks and more) become a channel member or patron: —————————————————…
From Tips For Travellers. I look at 5 biggest mistakes that cruise passengers make with cruise excursions, often ruining not only their time in port but putting a huge dampener on their total cruise. For bonus & exclusive content (including videos, articles, eBooks and more) become a channel member or patron: ————————————————— * Patreon Patron:…
From Tips For Travellers. Join me for another live cruise Q&A. This week I will focused on the most asked questions about river cruising Enter the giveaways for Insight Guides: Cruising and Cruise Ships: https://woobox.com/j88q6f Order a Cameo greeting from me: https://www.cameo.com/garybembridge LIVE: River Cruising Q&A: Sunday 10 December 2023 5pm UK/ Noon ET/ 9am…
From Tips For Travellers. I’m going to show you how seven of my friends paid nothing, or next to nothing, to go on cruise vacations in the last year, and how I’ve been offered 11 free, or almost free, cruises in that same period too. Some may not work for you today, but may one…
From Tips For Travellers. Join me for my livestream where I talk Cruise Excursion & Tours and answer your questions on this and any other cruise topi Sunday 3 December 2024: UK 5pm/ET Noon/PT 9am Get any cruise questions answered live! In this live I dived deep into Excursion Booking: Discover why booking excursions through…
From Tips For Travellers. I was having a great time on my recent Regent Seven Seas cruise before I started speaking to fellow guests. Some first-timers as well as long-time regulars raised issues which made me wonder if I was being too forgiving. After all, the trip had cost me a lot and it is…