Mister Jose - our Bar Manager who deserves an Oscar!

We have a lot of unique characters and personalities on board and we are very fortunate to have the best Bar Manager in the world - Mister Jose. Regular cruisers with Page & Moy will know how infectious his personality is. We are at sea today heading towards Helsinki and over 6o of our guests are seen above enjoying Mister Jose's unique Cocktail Demonstration. The event takes place before lunch to allow attendees to spend their afternoon relaxing. Check out the blog in a few days when we reach St Petersburg again.

Welcome to the West End - boy did we make a noise

We have just completed our Historic Britain & Ireland cruise visiting Scotland, Ireland and Cornwall. We ended this ten day voyage in the heart of London. At 0430 on the 3rd July we entered the Thames and commenced our seven hour transit along the river passing through Tower Bridge at 1045 and mooring alongside HMS Belfast directly opposite the Tower of London. We spent two sensational days in our capital city and as you can see from the images above - we arrived in style throwing an impromptu 'welcome to the west end' deck party!

Knowledgable Port Lecturers on every Page & Moy Cruise

Page and Moy are different to many other cruise lines, we offer small, friendly and traditional cruising - I like to call it 'cruising the way it is meant to be'. On every Page & Moy cruise we always have a knowledgeable Port Lecturer, John Tabbut McCarthy and Richard Jarmain have presented on board our ship for many years and have a wealth of knowledge, historical facts and handy hints about every destination we visit. John is currently travelling with us on this Historic Britain and Ireland Cruise and later on we will share our sail into London with you. We are in Belfast today and Dublin tomorrow, come back tomorrow to see how we got on in Ireland.

Party under the stars and awake to beautiful Bergen

As you can see from above, the southern tip of Norway has been very kind to us. We held our popular deck party last night with over 200 guests enjoying live music from our band Ocean Vibe, Mister Jose's special glogg and the most amazing scenery and sunset. Our deck party has a 'hoe down' theme and you can see members of our production team getting into the hoe down mood. We awoke this morning to a glorious June day in Bergen, as I write this blog there are only 31 people left on board - everyone else is enjoying their final call. Check out the blog in a few days time when we commence our Historic Britain & Ireland cruise!

We have special guests served by our special people

Page and Moy and Travelsphere are very lucky to have a great team of crew members to work alongside. If you are a one of our regular guests, I am sure you will agree, if you have never sailed with us - come along and see for yourself. Whilst we have been sailing through the Fjords I have been busy taking photographs of some of our crew members - as this blog evolves, there will be many more. Check out the blog in a few days where I will share some dramatic photographs of Bergen from the air!

The North Cape - Barren and cold but spectacular!

Last night over 400 guests visited the North Cape - the northernmost point of continental Europe. The landscape was awesome, barren and majestic. The excursion takes our guests from Honningsvag for a drive along the rugged coastline, we made a photo stop to see the horn and continued on to a small Sami camp. After leaving the Sami camp we headed to the North Cape Centre where our guests enjoyed a spectacular film show depicted the North Cape through the four seasons, some indulged in a glass of Champagne at the grotto and at midnight we rushed out to the Globe viewpoint to gaze across the Arctic Ocean and attempt to see the Midnight Sun. Ok, last night we were unlucky - but, in true Page & Moy and Travelsphere style we still had great fun with our very own Viking aka our Cruise Director Barry Summers posing for photographs with many of our guests.

A wonderful day in the Fjords and we have crossed into the Arctic Circle

Wow, we have had a busy day cruising in the spectacular Norwegian Fjords, at approximately 7.30pm last night we passed the Mountain with a hole, earlier we had held our crossing the line ceremony asking permission from King Troll to cross into the Arctic circle - we actually crossed the line at 0045 in spectacular sunshine. The evening was Captain's welcome aboard cocktail party with our guests and staff donning their finery and enjoying a lovely Gala evening in the land midnight sun. Hello to all of our regular cruise guests - it is evident from our counting statistics that many of you are tracking our progress in this our final year on board the Ocean Majesty.