Cruising is FUN

Day 3, Saturday, Transit the Suez Canal At around 2am Thomson Celebration dropped anchor at the waiting area for Northbound Traffic through the Suez Canal. After paying the fees (around £2500 – now that’s what I call a toll) and the obligatory Egyptian bribe we set off in convoy with a load of container ships to spend all day transiting the Suez Canal. What you probably don’t know is that the canal is so narrow that there is only one way traffic. What happens is that a convoy gets to use several miles of the canal then has to sail into passing places to ... Read Full Story

Day 2 sees us arrive at 8am into Port Sokhna in Egypt. Now The Thomson ships do tend to dock in shall we say, the less pretty ports. I think they do this to save money and also to encourage passengers to book organised excursions. As you can see from the picture, this is a container port. The main excursions from this port are to Cairo, the Pyramids and Museum etc. What I like about these ports is that a lot of passengers do get off and go on the excursions, leaving the rest of the ship quite empty for the rest of us ... Read Full Story

Returned yesterday from a cruise on the Thomson Celebration, as always we had a great time. The itinerary was one that I’d fancied for quite a while. The flight was out of Cardiff, although other airports are available and the cruise went from Sharm el Sheik in Egypt, through the Suez Canal and ended up in Palma. So the flight out was about 5 hours yet the flight back was only just over 2 hours. I don’t know about you, but when you go on holiday, the flight out never seems to be too long but when you come back, it seems to go ... Read Full Story

Well just a general post to introduce myself to everyone, I'm a 40 something guy with his own business based in Blackwood, Gwent. Married to Amanda for the last 15 years and my passion is cruise holidays. Now I know that there are some among you who are now yawning but wait, cruising can be for all ages, not just really old retired folk. I may be new to blogging, but I'm not new to cruising, in fact the cruise that we just completed was about our 30'th cruise. As the memories of these past cruises fade, I thought it was about time that ... Read Full Story

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