Cruise Online Magazine
Welcome to United Travel's Online Cruise Magazine, bringing you the very best information on cruising, from around the world. Here you will find stories writtten by our passionate cruise specialists from United Travel as well as editorials and articles written by international writers, and of course, personal stories from our valued cruise clients who love to share their experiences with us.
Above all, this area of our website is to help you choose the very best cruise holiday, and if through our experiences we can help make that decision easier for you, then we will be delighted!
See you at sea!
Jacqueline Unsworth
Online Editor
Online Cruise Magazine
Welcome to Barbados
Francis was in his late thirties, medium height, balding, white teeth, twinkle in his eye and smile, and African. "De colour of dark rum, maan," he said, and turned to see how I'd react. I nodded.
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Port of Lisbon
And there it was - "Pastel de Belém" - a small, crisp, puff pastry with a piping hot, sweet, soft cream filling. Disgusting. So I had to have another to make sure.
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Cruising on Mozart's birthday
The launderette is the hub of a cruise ship - particularly for tattle and gossip. One woman liked a particular washing machine so much, she sat on it till it came free.
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And that's Dubai for you...
...all before the coming of oil, when everything changed
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Island Escapes in the Hauraki Gulf
One of the things that makes this cruise special, is the crew...
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A Tui Tai Adventure Cruise
The Tuitai is hands down the coolest thing to do in Fiji..Tuitai has only one purpose: to make sure you go to sleep each night swearing you just spent the best day of your life
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Curacao and a recipe for Baikou!
When you walk the streets, or sit in a café by the busy harbour ferry terminal, you are overwhelmed by the differing shades of skin and hair colour, accent, language, gait, swagger, dress, head-scarves, and pace of the people.
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Huatulco, Mexico
In all my years of gazing at thousands of Roman Catholic images of the Madonna and Child, in Italy, France, Spain - the world over - I have never seen the like.
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Cruising the Murray River
To cruise on the Murray Princess is to experience a nostalgic journey stepping back in time on this period style ship.
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The World - A ship like no other...
The World is a private residential community at sea with a continuous worldwide itinerary...
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Christmas Island...a funny story
Why a television, I thought, on a beach amongst ‘T’ shirts and corned beef, grass skirts and jewellery?
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Orion Cruises ... A path less travelled
Orion is a purpose built, custom designed, five star expeditionary mega-yacht.
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Backyard Bliss - Cruising in New Zealand
The scenery is just mind blowing. It’s very isolated and you probably won’t see any other people for the 7 days you are in the Fjords.
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Remote Island Cruising with Blue Lagoon
The Rabi visit is one of many highlights during our seven-day Blue Lagoon Cruises Historical & Cultural cruise, which takes us to far-flung destinations in the Fiji group of islands that few are privileged to visit
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Bowing to the King's Seat in Tonga
I grinned sheepishly. She grinned back then picked up another crayfish from her side of the table and planted it down in front of me.
“Eat,” she said.
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The finest cuisine at Sea
Declaring Oceania Cruises’ cuisine to be “the finest at sea” may seem rather audacious. But once you taste that first delectable morsel, you will instantly become a believer.
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Cruise the great rivers of Europe in style
Imagine waking up to see the towering spires of Cologne’s awesome Gothic cathedral or the lush, fertile countryside and vineyards of Portugal from the panoramic windows of your luxurious floating hotel.
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Alaska with Anna - self confessed Cruise Junkie
It is a difficult thing to put into words, I have been to Alaska 7 times and far from curing me, I find each journey there grips me even more. I feel like a junkie eager for their next fix.
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New Carnival Ship - Liberty
This ship is well and truly ahead of the rest of the cruise industry in that it is completely wi-fi throughout...
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Antarctica & Chilean Fjords with Orient Lines
And then out of the blue something which we are not expecting can provide us with one of the most incredible and rewarding experiences in our lives...
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Mexico's Sea of Cortes
To cruise the sea of Cortes is to visit an Eden teeming with exotic plants and animals.
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A Silversea Christmas
And just when we thought it could not get any better...
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Antarctica with Amanda
Towering rock faces, stunning blue ice formations and an awesome icy wilderness for as far as the eye could see - it is actually impossible to get across in words the amazing scenes we experienced every day.
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Tom Tukiri Cruises the Mediterranean with MSC Cruises
Our ship was the MSC Armonia, just under 60000 tonnes and standing 9 decks above the waterline, splendid in white except for their trademark blue funnel with the company logo.
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Marco Polo the Destination Cruise Specialist
Unlike many of today’s mega-liners, the mid-size cruise ship shares the yacht-like atmosphere of smaller and more exclusive ships. And yet, she is large enough to cross all of the world’s oceans.
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Monett tours the Mediterranean with Oceania
Nothing though had prepared us for the lavish personalised service that we experienced onboard Regatta
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Captain Cook's Fiji
A small ship built exclusively for destination cruising, she caters for no more than 120 passengers
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