Cruises and cruising
Posted in Cruise Show on Sep 14th, 2014
We visited the Manchester Cruise Show yesterday, and we enjoyed it. It was held in (part of) ‘Manchester Central’, which I’d never of before this; but once I learned that this was the new name for the refurbished G-Mex Centre, I was happy. We drove to Hazel Grove, got a train from there to Manchester […]
Posted in Cruise Show on Sep 13th, 2014
We’re off to the Manchester Cruise Show today. We’re particularly interested in the following topics: destination-based cruising which might include cruising with lines such as Voyages to Antiquity; luxury cruising (Regent Seven seas) river cruising; ust small ship cruising (err, Fred). Although the major lines are conspicuous by their absence from this iteration of The […]
Posted in Cruise Show, General on Oct 30th, 2011
We visited the Cruise show at the NEC yesterday, and we had a good time. There were about 50 stands for about 75 exhibitors. A number of stands covered multiple exhibitors, e.g. Swan Hellenic, Voyages of Discovery, Hebridean Cruises and Discover Egypt were all on a small stand that actually bore the name ‘All Leisure […]
Posted in Cruise Show, General on Oct 24th, 2011
… and this time we’re going. We’ll be at the NEC for next weekend’s event. I think our focus will be as follows:- River cruises Luxury cruises err – anything else that take our eye! Val is probably more interested in river cruises than I am, but this will give us the opportunity to check […]