When ‘coming home’ is the best part of a New York holiday – a transatlantic crossing by Queen Mary 2
Crossing the Atlantic by the most civilised route – the Queen Mary 2
Ship reviews
Many more cruise articles on metro.co.uk
Before starting my shipmonk.co.uk blog, I wrote many articles for metro.co.uk – the website of the newspaper where I am deputy editor. I still occasionally do cruise stories in print and online for them. My […]
My video report on Carnival Sunshine
To see my metro.co.uk report on Carnival Sunshine, complete with video, please click here
From beer to Serenity: Fun-filled Carnival Sunshine has something for everyone
I came prepared not to like Carnival Sunshine. Any cruise line that uses the word ‘fun’ so often (or, even worse, ‘funnest’) and splashes a red starburst on its brochure cover to announce prices ‘from […]
Journey to the tsars – a 14-day Baltic cruise on Celebrity Eclipse
From nibbling chocolates in Bruges to admiring the treasures of St Petersburg, bouncing across the waves in a speedboat in Helsinki to exploring the canals of Copenhagen, a Baltic cruise offers an amazing wealth of […]
Europa 2 – the new standard in cruising
Amazing. Extraordinary. Breath-taking. I’m not normally one for superlatives but these were just three of the words that entered my head as I toured Europa 2, the new ship from German operator Hapag-Lloyd, on a […]
Saga Sapphire – younger on the inside
Saga Sapphire is rather like its passengers – a little dated on the outside but feeling definitely younger on the inside. The 37,000-tonne ship is 30 years old and looks like it should be bobbing […]