It’s been more than eight months – eight long months – since the first cruise companies suspended sailings in the face of the global coronavirus pandemic. Others followed like dominoes and, aside from a handful of exceptions, have remained in limbo while clinging on to hopes of a slow return […]

A ship is the largest human construction capable of moving across the globe. Not surprising then that putting a cruise ship together is a tour de force of structural engineering. There are only four shipyards with the capability to build the world’s biggest cruise ships: Germany’s Meyer Werft; STX Europe, […]

What an elitist load of claptrap. I’m talking, for those who missed it (lucky them), about Jeremy Clarkson’s embarrassing rant over cruising in a national newspaper last weekend that would have insulted millions, and –frankly – proved he hasn’t got a clue what he is talking about. I make my […]