It’s the time of year when every holiday company, hotel and restaurant deluges travel journalists with St Valentine’s Day ideas. So it’s nice to receive something with a difference – a chance to miss the […]
A multi-million-pound refit of P&O Cruises’ Arcadia has been unveiled in time for Christmas. The 83,000-tonne ship, launched in 2005, has been given new cabins, an extended shopping area, a new restaurant and a transformed […]
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 […]
They are the decade that hairstyles and fashion may have forgotten, but everyone seems to love Eighties music, even those too young to be born then. So there could be a rush to board some […]
P&O Cruises today unveiled the look of its new ship, set to debut in 2015, as the keel was laid in the Fincantieri shipyard near Trieste in Italy. But, despite the excitement, is the new drawing […]
[Editor’s note: This post was originally written in 2013] The news that the Duchess of Cambridge will christen the cruise ship Royal Princess in Southampton in June makes her the latest in a line of […]