Rosalind and Alan Cuthbertson are authors, owners, and content creators of Frequent Traveller. A leading travel blog designed to help you get more out of travel. Come along to learn about us, how we quit our jobs to travel the world, and how our many years of travel experience can help you.
The day a hurricane turned our cruise around
Frequent Traveller News A few years back we were partway through a Caribbean cruise, on our way to Key West, when the captain came over the speakers. A category 5 Hurricane, was heading for the Florida coast. We were turning around. Safe call. But we disembarked in Miami two days late, and suddenly every flight and hotel booked on the other side of that cruise was wrong. A few weeks later, we boarded another ship from Vancouver to Japan, and a typhoon hit Japan while we were crossing the Pacific. Our fellow passengers joked about never cruising with us again. We've just published the full story, including the phone call we made to our insurer from the middle of the Caribbean, what was covered, what wasn't, and the one booking in Las Vegas that we lost money on. If you've got a cruise booked, or you're thinking about one, this is worth five minutes before you pay for anything else: What happened when our cruise was rerouted twice Alan and Ros Thinking about a move to Thailand? Our eBook Moving to Thailand from Australia covers the whole journey, visas to daily costs. Read the first chapter free Are you travelling soon? Use our links below to book! Accommodations - We recommend booking.com Disclaimer: This email may contain affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, we earn a commission at no extra cost to you. These commissions help reduce the ever-increasing costs of keeping our site up. Thanks! We hope you enjoy our articles and as always feel free to contact us if you have any travel questions. We wish everyone the absolute best, stay safe, well and continue to keep your dreams alive whatever they may be. Ros and Alan |
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Rosalind and Alan Cuthbertson are authors, owners, and content creators of Frequent Traveller. A leading travel blog designed to help you get more out of travel. Come along to learn about us, how we quit our jobs to travel the world, and how our many years of travel experience can help you.
Frequent Traveller News VISIT OUR BLOG | RESOURCES | ABOUT US Hi Reader, We are currently in Chiang Mai and enjoying all that this dynamic city has to offer. As many of you know, we spend a lot of time here, and we aren't the only ones. Chiang Mai has a charm that draws people back. The city plays host to a mix of short-term tourists, long stay visitors and a large expat community. For the tourist, it is the gateway to hilltribe villages, elephant sanctuaries, breathtaking mountain scenery...
Frequent Traveller News VISIT OUR BLOG | RESOURCES | ABOUT US Hi Reader, If you've followed us for a while, you'll know we're independent travellers at heart. Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, South Korea, all done on our own steam, and we'd happily do them all again the same way. China is different. In November we travelled to Chongqing with Wendy Wu Tours, covering the same ground as the Chongqing leg of their New Horizons of China itinerary, and it made the case for guided travel...
Frequent Traveller News VISIT OUR BLOG | RESOURCES | ABOUT US Hi Reader, We’re currently travelling through Vietnam and again just visited a place we once avoided for years. Ba Na Hills. It actually took us multiple trips to the region before we finally went, and now we’ve been three times. That probably tells you something. Before visiting, we weren’t convinced. It’s not a cultural site, and it’s not really what people picture when they think of Vietnam. It’s a mountaintop resort and theme...