Who’s afraid of cruising? Record bookings and new ships say no one
Cruising has been battered by the storm of the pandemic. But it’s full steam ahead for the industry this year and beyond. From the upcoming 28-page Travel magazine in our July issue, out on June 25.
Crystal Endeavor sails from late next month, specialising in polar voyages.
In March last year, I disembarked from a Coral Expeditions journey in Indonesia, little realising it would be one of the last cruises to sail worldwide for six months. The 14-day itinerary from Darwin started well but, as the coronavirus outbreak snowballed, locals demonstrated against cruise ships, and we were denied entry into some ports.
It took 24 hours of negotiation before we could disembark at our final destination of Makassar on the south-west coast of the island of Sulawesi.
Brian JohnstonTravel writerBrian Johnston seemed destined to become a travel writer and author: he is an Irishman born in Nigeria and raised in Switzerland, who has lived in Britain and China.
