Show Features
The CRUISE Show is packed with free talks, Q&A sessions, presentations and free advice to help you plan your perfect cruising adventure. From cruising under sail, discovering new journeys by sea, exploring the rivers of the world to getting close-up with polar bears - put your questions to the experts, uncover intrepid journeys, gather inspiration and get inside knowledge directly from travel journalists.
Blue Guide
With so many cruise operators and destinations to choose from, it can be difficult to track down your ideal cruise. The Blue Guide feature is a practical resource that can help with planning your next trip and will be packed with ideas, tips, port reviews plus where to find the best deals. Or if you have any inside information that you would like to share, speak to the guys from BestCruiseDeal.co.uk to post it on the Blue Guide.
BestCruiseDeal.co.uk has a unique quoting system that enables its users to receive multiple quotes on their chosen cruise holiday. While you check out the Blue Guide, why not sign up for their weekly newsletter? You might be a lucky winner as they are giving away a box of champagne on each day of the show. For more information visit www.bestcruisedeal.co.uk
Cruise Advice
The Passenger Shipping Association represents 37 cruise lines operating in the UK, their Discover Cruises website is dedicated to everything cruise. The PSA's Discover Cruises hub at the show is packed with everything you ever wanted to know about a cruise holiday; from information on the huge range and diversity of cruise ships, the hundreds of worldwide destinations, why cruising is ideal for families or simply if you're looking for inspiration and advice. For more information visit www.discover-cruises.co.uk
Nearest to the pin
Win a fantastic cruise for two with Fred.Olsen Cruise Lines in the nearest to the pin golfing feature. Enter the competition and if your swing ends with the ball closest to the pin you win a Flagship Golf package departing for a cruise around the UK and Ireland on the 5th of Spetember 2009. The prize includes a cabin for two on the Balmoral.
Don't be too concerned about entering the competition if your golf needs a little work. A Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines golf pro will be on hand to help with your chance of getting your ball as close as possible.
Expedition Cruise Feature
Join the Great Adventure People in their inflatable Zodiac boat on stand D49 (G.A.P Adventures) and let them show you the wonders of a 'frozen safari' to the White Continent.
Saturday:
1100-1120 - Icy Idylls: Antarctica, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands with G.A.P Adventures
1400-1420 - Icy Idylls: Antarctica, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands with G.A.P Adventures
Sunday:
1200-1220 - Icy Idylls: Antarctica, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands with G.A.P Adventures
1430-1450 - Icy Idylls: Antarctica, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands with G.A.P Adventures
From the remote and epic landscapes of the Falklands - a birder's paradise brimming with over 220 species - to South Georgia Island, a land of snow-capped peaks, ice-scalloped fjords and sheltered valleys. Revisit the heroic era of Antarctic Exploration at Grytvicken (Shackleton’s resting place) and retrace his epic walk from Fortuna Bay to the now rusting whale station at Stromness, where the forlorn alarm was raised after ice crushed the HMS Endurance. Discover what has fascinated Explorers like Amundsen and Schakleton for almost a century: “Glittering white, shining blue - like a fairytale.” - Amundsen (1911).
Wine Tasting, with Spirit of Adventure
Spirit of Adventure offers a truly remarkable discovery cruising experience, enriched by expert guest speakers. Inspiring world wide ports of call, exeptional service, gourmet dining and extremely stylish throughout, Spirit of Adventure offers an intimate style of discovery cruising for the over 21's.
Marta's Vinyard make premium quality wines from hand picked harvests in Mendoza, Argentina. Building on the success, MVL have recently purchased an additional winery in Maipu, Mendoza, which after upgrading, is scheduled to be brought into production in time for the 2009 harvest season.
Visit the Spirit of Adventure stand to sample Marta's Vinyards wines.
Travel Photographer of the Year exhibition
Travel Photographer of the Year was launched in 2003, and has rapidly become one of the world's most prestigious photographic competitions. Thousands of entries are received from amateur and professional photographers in over 60 countries every year, and the winning images from the 2008 competition, which will be displayed at CRUISE, will form a stunning exhibition of truly inspirational travel photography. Those looking to improve their own photography cam pick up TPOTY's Top Ten tips for great imagery from the TPOTY exhibition stand, and, for more in-depth advice, attend one of the photography talks by TPOTY organiser and professional photographer, Chris Coe.
For more information visit http://www.tpoty.com
Cruise Critic IQ Challenge
Fancy yourself an expert on cruise geography? Been to Topolobampo and can place it on a map? Then take the Cruise IQ challenge, courtesy of our friends at Travelpod, fellow member of the TripAdvisor Media Network. Come and play the game at the Cruise Critic stand and be in with a chance of winning a prize if you get the top score of the day!
http://www.cruisecritic.co.uk/cruiseiq