We need your vote! Please :)

You will probably remember last October when myself and lots of my colleagues here at Cruise.co.uk took part on the Birmingham Half Marathon in honour of our dear friend and colleague Drew, who we sadly lost to Cancer. Drew set up his own charity ULegend in support of Sarcoma UK. Sarcoma was the rare cancer that he was diagnosed with and so he wanted to make a difference and help the charity in as many ways as he could and he certainly did.

Drews Just Giving Page has so far raised a staggering and incredible £18,813.36 so far - amazing! This has been from a mixture of fund raising events by Cruise.co.uk and Drews amazing friends and family alike. We also did a big cake bake sale here at the cruise.co.uk office where the bakers of the office made some wonderful tasty baked treats for people to purchase. We had people dropping in from all over the town and just under £400 was raised!

Anyway, for all of our efforts Cruise.co.uk has been nominated for the Company of the Year Award 2013 and we are now open to the public vote!!
The 3 companies with the most votes will make the shortlist for the Just Giving Awards 2013 and then the company that gets the highest number of votes will then be announced the Company of the Year at the awards ceremony - so we REALLY need your vote people!

Votes can be placed here www.justgivingawards.com/vote_now.htm until the 15th March.
Send it to all your family and friends and get them to vote too!

If you want to visit Drews Just Giving page and make a donation follow this link:
http://www.justgiving.com/ULEGEND

It will mean the World to us if we win this as we feel it is something tremendous in Honour of Drew who is very dearly missed in our office.

As we all know too well, the 21st Century is the era of Technology where we are required to fill everything on online usually.

Gone are the days now of booking your cruise/flights/holiday and having the excitement of receiving your tickets through the post with all of your holiday details.
Most cruise lines operate an E-ticket process (Electronic Tickets) where all you get is a peice of paper to print off.

Regent Seven Seas Cruises are one of the only cruise lines that still offer a lovely wallet for your Cruise Documentation. Infact, not only do they offer the wallet but they have just announced that they have upgraded it to a keepsake tablet case!


The new holder, which is soft, brown faux leather, snaps with a magnetic closure and features the Regent Seven Seas Cruises logo embossed on the front cover.
The keepsake holder includes a personalized Final Cruise Summary tailored specifically to the guest’s experience containing all reservation information for their cruise such as shore excursions, flight details, pre- and post-cruise hotel stays and land programmes and any other supplemental items booked. It also contains special Regent Seven Seas Cruises luggage tags and the new ‘Welcome Aboard’ pamphlet detailing onboard activities specific to the ship on which the guest is sailing. The new documentation package can then be used to hold a tablet such as an iPad, Kindle or Nook.

I think this is a lovely touch from Regent and just highlights their 6* Luxury standard that you can expect to get from them.

Car parking at Southampton - I've got it covered!

Quite often the cruise lines will offer free car parking from Southampton if you book an early deal.
 

 At the moment P&O and Cunard in particular have their 'Vantage' deal in place whereby you get the choice of either OBC or free parking. What I have found is that the obc they are offering is practically comparable with the price that they charge for the parking, so it technically doesn't really make a difference what you choose - or does it? Well in actual fact it does as we offer a reduced price on our port parking at Southampton which generally tends to save you about £30 on a 14nt sailing! So you are better off taking the obc and booking your parking through us.

Our parking is a meet and greet service at the port. Our chauffeurs will meet you right outside the terminal where your ship is leaving from after you have dropped off your baggage. You just hand your car over and they will park it up for in the secured compound about 2 minutes away. Upon arrival back into the terminal after your wonderful cruise all you have to do is give a local number a call to advise them you are about to disembark and they will have the chauffeur there waiting to greet you with your car - it really is as easy as that! We have been using this service for a couple of years now and I have booked countless passengers with out meet and greet service and it gets rave reviews. They say the service is very smooth and convenient and great value for money!

So what are you waiting for, book your parking with me today and save ££££'s - whether its a new booking or one you already have booked with me, you can add your parking at any time :)