Tips For Travellers

Want to make more of your precious travel time and money? Then the Tips For Travellers podcast is likely the podcast for you! Every week your host (Gary Bembridge, a published travel author, writer, video maker, blogger and YouTuber - his channel has over 29 million video views!) shares travel inspiration, advice, tips and money saving ideas based on his first-hand experiences of travelling every month of every year for over 25 years. Each episode features one of these (1) destinations reviews and tips, (2) answers to listener travel questions, (3) live travel reports or (4) cruise line reviews and advice on getting the most from them. Visit http://www.TipsForTravellers.com to follow Tips For Travellers on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Twitter and to sign up for the monthly newsletter.

  • 18 minutes 27 seconds
    Regent Says It's The World's Best Cruise Line! I Put That To The Test (Podcast #522)

    Days before heading off on Regent's newest ship, the Grandeur, the line launched new advertising promising that “nobody does it better”. In in they also claimed to have the “world's most luxurious fleet”, and that no cruise line beats them on destination experiences, hospitality, luxury spaces, and dining. Having been on Regent before, while I found them great, I didn’t think they beat every line, so this latest trip turned into the perfect opportunity to really test out if Regent now does do cruising better than everybody else. I am Gary Bembridge, and this is what I found. And as always to offer an unbiased review I booked and paid for this trip myself like every single cruise I go on

     

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    3 March 2025, 3:46 am
  • 13 minutes 26 seconds
    6 NEW Cruise Scams & Tricks To Watch Out For This Year! (podcast #521)

    I’ve been contacted recently by way too many cruise passengers that have been caught out by new scams that have emerged since my last video about this topic, including one a good friend stumbled upon on his latest cruise – and one using me to scam cruisers like you! Here are the latest cruise scams to watch out for!

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    25 February 2025, 3:42 am
  • 11 minutes 21 seconds
    6 Tricks To Use To Beat Today's Soaring Cruise Fares (podcast #521)

    Every cruiser can see that cruise fares have been rising scarily fast, and cruise lines are telling Wall Street investors that they expect fares to keep rising well over inflation as demand for cruising is so high. But despite that, I have found ways of paying less than most people on every one of the 12 upcoming trips I've got booked. I'm going to show you how I, and other smart cruisers, cruise for less than others in this time of rising fares.

     

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    17 February 2025, 6:00 am
  • 8 minutes 51 seconds
    Cruise Lines JUST Banned These 6 Much-Loved Items!! (podcast #520)

    I’m upset as one item I've taken on every cruise I've done to date has just been banned. But I'm not the only one devastated about new cruise line bans, as three people contacted me about a less-publicised ban making cruising more costly for them. While I saw another recent ban got one cruiser banned for life when she unwittingly broke it. I’m Gary Bembridge, and I’m here to tell you about six items cruise lines have recently banned that could change the way you cruise. Forever.

     

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    10 February 2025, 6:00 pm
  • 11 minutes 16 seconds
    Changes EVERYONE Cruising In 2025 Needs To Know About (Podcast #519)

    If you've got a cruise booked in 2025, or thinking of booking one, there are startling changes being made by cruise lines, governments, and the actions of some local port residents that you need to be ready to deal with. Even if you've been cruising recently and think you know how things work, these changes could catch you by surprise and throw your cruise plans off course. Here are six changes I think you need to be ready for in 2025.

    Links mentioned in the episode: 

    UK ETA: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/apply-for-an-electronic-travel-authorisation-eta 

    EU ETIAS: https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias_en

     Videos Mentioned:

    Money saving: https://youtu.be/qWLw-tJbSKg

     Banned Items: https://youtu.be/WCveKKbpJRw

     

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    3 February 2025, 6:00 am
  • 14 minutes 7 seconds
    Antarctica Expedition Lines Don’t Tell You This, Until You’re On Board! (Podcast #518)

    On all three Antarctic trips I've been on, I’ve seen so many passengers thrown by the same things each time. All because expedition lines are not totally transparent until passengers get on board. Then the truth comes out. It often comes as a big shock to many. So, here are the six things I see most passengers are surprised about Antarctic cruising once they get on board.

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    27 January 2025, 5:32 pm
  • 18 minutes 10 seconds
    I Put Silversea's Costly Expedition Cruising To The Test. WORTH IT? (Podcast #517)

    Knowing that the expedition cruise I wanted to do would cost me the same as buying a new luxury car, I needed to make sure that the line I went with would deliver something special and make every dollar worth it. After much deliberating, I decided to entrust Silversea with this huge sum of money as I've been on shorter expedition cruises with them before, thought they did a good job, though I was apprehensive as the cost of getting it wrong was so enormous. On this trip, I discovered just what Silversea Expedition are doing well, and not so that well these days, as you will hear.

     

     

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    20 January 2025, 5:30 am
  • 15 minutes 56 seconds
    The Smartest Way To Deal With These 6 Cruise Nightmares (Podcast #516)

    I've recently been following several cruise-gone-wrong sagas that inspired me to make this. They include outraged passengers raging because the Captain decided to miss iconic ports that most had booked the cruise for, and a distraught family facing a medical bill of $150,000 after their father fell ill on European cruise. Like you I assume all my cruises will be perfect, but not all are. Here are the main things I’ve seen go wrong, and how to be ready for them and what to do if it happens to you.

     

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    13 January 2025, 2:26 pm
  • 11 minutes 57 seconds
    Smart Cruisers Rely On These Game-Changing Cruise Resources (Podcast #515)

    Over the years I've been cruising, I have made many mistakes, but thanks to other cruisers I've met along the way, they suggested various tools, sites, and apps that helped make sure I avoided making those – and other - mistakes again. So, I'd like to share those that I use on every cruise to make every trip epic. Including some rather quirky and unusual ones that you may find surprising and even rather amusing!

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    2 December 2024, 8:15 am
  • 15 minutes 46 seconds
    Which Cruise Line Is The VERY BEST By Region? And Why? (Podcast #514)

    In every weekly live cruise Q&A livestream that I do on YouTube, I am asked by a cruiser what is the best cruise line they should use in one of the regions of the world so they can see and get the most of it. So, I decided to make this to share in one place what I have found from my experiences to be the very best cruise lines to choose in each of the 8 most popular cruising regions. I have cruised all several times and, as you will see, many of the lines are not the obvious nor the biggest.

    25 November 2024, 8:00 am
  • 10 minutes 46 seconds
    Too Many Cruisers Fall For These Cruise Drink Package Traps (Podcast #513)

    A drinks package can easily add $1,000 or more to the cost of your seven-night cruise. They've become popular and cruise lines push cruisers hard to buy them, arguing they’re great value, but are they really? And who exactly should, and should not, be buying them and why? I highlight how to avoid falling into traps that so many cruisers do with drinks packages. Links mentioned in the video: * Drinks Package calculators: https://www.cruzely.com/cruise-line-drink-package-calculator/ and https://www.cruisemummy.co.uk/cruise-drinks-package-calculator/

    18 November 2024, 6:00 am
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