Queen Anne in Iceland

Why my bucket list cruise on Cunard’s new Queen Anne left me underwhelmed

The top two items on my bucket list were to cruise with Cunard and to visit Reykjavik. So when the new Queen Anne was launched this year offering a 14-day itinerary taking in Iceland and the British Isles, it was an opportunity too good to miss, writes SeaView editor David Simpson. Over a 40-year career

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Oceania Cruises vintage wine

Vintage cruising with Oceania’s  rare wine collection

Oceania Cruises prides itself on offering some of the finest dining at sea, but now it has gone a big step further by launching a rare wine collection across its fleet. To complement its gastronomic experiences, the line’s newly upgraded luxury wines and vintage lists feature 80 new labels sourced from Italy, France, South America

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Quantum of the Seas

Cruise specialist’s top tips for smoother sailing as he sounds warning of 2022 price hike

The cost of going on a cruise could be higher next year due to a combination of economic factors, according to a leading industry expert. As the UK emerges from the pandemic and demand for cruise increases, cruise lines will not need to discount as much as previously, while additional costs for fuel, onboard food

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SeaDream II

A Caribbean Dream you never want to wake up from

Join SeaView editor David Simpson on his third journey down Memory Lane, this time in the Caribbean in 2004 on board SeaDream II I have an aversion to filling in forms. Normally I can’t interpret half of the questions, and then struggle to find an accurate answer for any them. But the guest questionnaire that arrived at

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Hitting 60! The coolest way to celebrate a special birthday has to be a stunning Silversea cruise in Alaska

Join SeaView editor David Simpson on his second journey down Memory Lane, this time in Alaska in 2008 on board Silver Shadow Darryl, the Prince Harry lookalike, shouted “Hang On”, but before his words had even reach my ears the dogs had pulled away at the sledding equivalent of G-Force. Nothing could have prepared me

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Hurtigruten explorer Fram

We gawped at a gigantic slab of ice. It was one such iceberg from Greenland that drifted many hundreds of miles into the path of the Titanic …

SeaView editor David Simpson begins his series of journeys Down Memory Lane with an unforgettable voyage to the icefields of Greenland on Hurtigruten’s Fram As we drifted among a field of ice-scrapers, some 60 metres tall, others 50 metres wide, it was impossible to believe that we were close to the shores of GREEN-land. It

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Diamond Princess in Yokohama

Cruising and the coronavirus … as bookings take a hit, is there as danger of fear becoming more contagious than the virus itself?

The question many people will be asking themselves is whether this is the time to be booking a cruise … or any other foreign travel come to that. And for others, the question will be whether to cancel a cruise that has already been booked. With the jury out on how bad the situation is

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American Song at dock on the Columbia river

Dammit! How our bid to retrace the 19-month expedition of Lewis and Clark on North America’s pioneer trail ground to a halt … after just two days

It took Lewis and Clarke from April 1804 to November 1805 to pioneer the trail from St Louis, Missouri, to the Pacific Ocean. Our efforts to retrace just a small part of their epic journey lasted just two days before grinding to a halt, writes SeaView editor David Simpson. Our soft option was to traverse

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queen of the mississippi

Sweet dreams are made of this … rolling on the Mississippi River with Annie Lennox’s in-laws

Wide and awesome it certainly is. Picturesque and chocolate box it certainly isn’t. So if you like your river cruising to be full of picture postcard scenery and hillside castles found on the waterways of Europe, then the mighty Mississippi probably isn’t going to be your thing, writes SeaView editor David Simpson. On the other

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