Hotel Stays

Cruise Ships

 

Holidays I have enjoyed...

 

DATE Type, Airport and duration Destination Cost Insurance Spending Who?

28/04/2025

Hotel BHX HB 10 nights

Lanzarote - Playa Blanca - Hipotels Natura Palace - Partial Sea View

£1,832.86 £120 XS for annual   PJ&LJ

22/03/2015

Hotel BHX HB 10 nights - Jet2

Son Caliu Resort And Spa Hotel, Palma Nova, Mallorca

£1586.00 12x£18 = £216   PJ&LJ
Opening a Nationwide account meant the setting up of a new annual travel insurance policy

12/12/2024

Hotel BHX HB 10 nights

Lanzarote - Playa Blanca - H10 Timanfaya Palace - Sea View - Room 169

£1,857.88 £198.77 €500 PJ&LJ

24/06/2024

Hotel BHX HB 10 nights

Lanzarote - Playa Blanca - Hipotels Natura Palace - Partial Sea View

Lynne - Scrape on foot caused suspected blood infection - high temperature and shakes - had to call out the doctor. Needed an antibiotic shot and course of tablets - no alcohol for last few days. In room for a day - cost £765 - claimed back £715.
£1,685.30 £165.02 €400 PJ&LJ

19/04/2024

BHX Cruise on the

Marella Explorer Junior Suite Cabin - 1212

14 nights

Day Port Arrival Time Departure Time
1 - Friday Santa Cruz, Tenerife Embark 23:00
2 - Saturday
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
08:00
23:00
3 - Sunday At Sea    
4 - Monday
Funchal, Madeira
08:00
18:00
5 - Tuesday At Sea    
6 - Wednesday
Gibraltar, Gibraltar
12:00
21:00
7 - Thursday
Motril (for Granada)
09:00
19:00
8 - Friday At Sea    
9 - Saturday
Palma, Majorca
08:00
18:00
10 - Sunday At Sea    
11 - Monday
Cagliari, Sardinia
08:00
17:00
12 - Tuesday At Sea    
13 - Wednesday
Valletta, Malta
09:00
18:00
14 - Thursday At Sea    
15 - Friday
Corfu Town, Corfu
07:30
Disembark
Lynne - picked up a nasty virus on day 4 in Funchal - hacking cough and tired - not well enough to disembark until Malta.

Stuck overnight in Corfu Airport

Scheduled Time of Departure

18:30 GMT 03rd May 2024

Actual Time of Departure

13:40 GMT 04th May 2024

Reason for Delay

The crew due to operate your flight had reached their legally permitted operating hours. Therefore, your flight was delayed overnight. Your flight operated at its earliest opportunity the following day.

Total Length of Delay

19 Hours 10 Minutes

I wrote to them.... they replied:

Thank you for taking the time to speak to me following on from your recent holiday to Corfu. We are truly sorry that this was the experience you had at the end of your holiday. We wanted to reach out again to let you know of the following actions we have taken now that you are home. To acknowledge the disappointment this has caused, we can confirm we will be sending you a £150 (one hundred and fifty pounds only ) per person in the form of a bank transfer which will be sent to you via email within the next 28 days. Also you will receive EU261 flight delay compensation this will be paid proactively and a link has been sent directly to you.

As per relevant Air Passenger Rights rules – LYNDA JONES and Peter Jones are entitled to £350.00 per passenger. This equates to a total of £700.00 compensation.

So we got £1,000 from Tui

£3803.44

£188.10

+£64.07 (PJ)

+£56.47 (LJ)

€100 PJ&LJ

08/12/2023

BHX Cruise on the Marella Explorer

Cabin 1212

7 nights then

Hotel HB 7 nights

Day Port Arrival Time Departure Time
1 - Friday
Santa Cruz, Tenerife
Embark
23:00
2 - Saturday
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
08:00
23:00
3 - Sunday
Arrecife, Lanzarote
09:00
18:00
4 - Monday
At Sea
   
5 - Tuesday
La Palma, La Palma
08:00
18:00
6 - Wednesday
Funchal, Madeira
18:00
23:59
7 - Thursday
Funchal, Madeira
00:01
13:00
8 - Friday
Santa Cruz, Tenerife
07:30
Transfer to hotel

 

Tenerife - TUI BLUE Los Gigantes - sea view

£3,367.42 £227.45 €250 PJ&LJ

23/04/2023

Hotel BHX HB 7 nights

Tenerife - TUI BLUE Los Gigantes - sea view

Katy - sunburn by evening of first ful day - and period started day 2 - spent most of the week in the room during the day
Lynne - Norovirus - lost a whole day!
£1,306.56 £95.74 €130 KJ&LJ

06/10/2022

Hotel EMA All Inclusive 7 nights

Croatia - TUI BLUE Kalamota Island - Dubrovnik & Islands Kolocep

£1,228.28 £83.68 €200 PJ&LJ

19/06/2022

Hotel BHX HB 10 nights

Tenerife - TUI BLUE Los Gigantes - sea view

£1,399.20 £156.73 €300 PJ&LJ

10/03/2022

Hotel BHX HB 10 nights

H10 Timanfaya Palace Hotel

£1,682.70 £115.23 €300 PJ&LJ
Covid caused cancellation of annual Travel Insurance Policy

24/02/2020

Hotel EMA HB 7 nights

TUI BLUE Madeira Gardens Funchal Madeira - Junior Suite with Sea View and Balcony

£986.52     PJ&LJ

02/11/2019

Repositioning cruise BHX

8 nights

Marella Discovery 2 - Cosmopolitan Collection

Junior Suite Cabin with Balcony and Premier Service

Day Port Arrival Time Departure Time
1 Sat 2/11/19 Palma - MAJORCA   22:00
2 Sun 3/11/19 At Sea
3 Mon 4/11/19 Ajaccio - CORSICA 08:00 18:00
4 Tue 5/11/19 Monaco - MONACO 08:00 18:00
5 Wed 6/11/19 Toulon (for the Cote D'Azur) - FRANCE 09:00 18:00
6 Thu 7/11/19 Barcelona - SPAIN 08:00 18:00
7 Fri 8/11/19 Valencia - SPAIN 08:00 18:00
8 Sat 9/11/19 Cartagena - SPAIN 08:00 18:00
9 Sun 10/11/19 Malaga - SPAIN 06:00 Flight home

 

£2,118.66     LJ&KJ

10/10/2019

Cruise and stay

Marella Celebration - Venetian Vistas

Thomson Celebration - Venetian Vistas

Suite Cabin with Premier Service

Day Port Arrival Time Departure Time
1 Thu Dubrovnik, Croatia - 22:00
2 Fri Bar, Montenegro 08:00 18:00
3 Sat Korcula (tender),Croatia 07:00 18:00
4 Sun Zadar, Croatia 08:00 18:00
5 Mon Venice, Italy 08:00 18:00
6 Tue Trieste, Italy 08:00 16:00
7 Wed Split, Croatia 09:00 18:00
8 Thu Dubrovnik, Croatia 05:00 Transfer ferry to Kolocep

 

Hotel: Sensimar Kalamota Island Resort, Kolocep, Dubrovnik & Islands

Junior Suite with Limited Sea View and Balcony or Terrace

£3,639.68     PJ&LJ

23/04/2019

Repositioning Cruise BMX AI

18 nights

 

Marella Discovery 2 - Transatlantic Voyage

Junior Suite Cabin with Balcony and Premier Service

Day Port Arrival Time Departure Time
1 Tue 23/4/19 Montego Bay - JAMAICA   20:00
2 Wed 24/4/19 At Sea
3 Thu 25/4/19 Grand Turk - TURKS & CAICOS ISLAND 08:00 19:00
4 Fri 26/4/19 At Sea
5 Sat 27/4/19 King's Wharf - BERMUDA 08:00 23:00
6 Sun 28/4/19 At Sea
7 Mon 29/4/19
8 Tue 30/4/19
9 Wed 1/5/19
10 Thu 2/5/19
11 Fri 3/5/19 Horta* - AZORES 08:00 18:00
12 Sat 4/5/19 Ponta Delgada - AZORES 08:00 17:00
13 Sun 5/5/19 At Sea
14 Mon 6/5/19 Porto - PORTUGAL 11:00 19:00
15 Tue 7/5/19 Lisbon - PORTUGAL 08:00 17:00
16 Wed 8/5/19 Cadiz (for Seville) - SPAIN 10:00 22:00
17 Thu 9/5/19 Gibraltar - SPAIN 07:00 17:00
18 Fri 10/5/19 Cartagena - SPAIN 08:00 16:00
19 Sat 11/5/19 Palma - MAJORCA 06:00 Flight home
£4,157.06     PJ&LJ

06/01/2019

Hotel BMX

HB 14 nights

Sensimar Los Gigantes, Los Gigantes, Tenerife

Double Room with Sea View and Balcony

£2,007.60     PJ&LJ

30/10/2018

Jet2

Hotel BMX

HB 10 nights

Son Caliu Resort And Spa Hotel, Palma Nova, Mallorca £1686.00   €300 PJ&LJ

06/09/2018

Hotel BMX HB 14 nights

H10 Timanfaya Palace Hotel, Playa Blanca, Lanzarote £2,160.32     PJ&LJ

31/05/2018

Cruise and stay

Cancelled due to Katrina collapsing at University

Thomson Celebration - Venetian Vistas

Suite Cabin with Premier Service

Day Port Arrival Time Departure Time
1 Thu Dubrovnik, Croatia - 22:00
2 Fri Bar, Montenegro 08:00 18:00
3 Sat Korcula (tender),Croatia 07:00 18:00
4 Sun Zadar, Croatia 08:00 18:00
5 Mon Venice, Italy 08:00 18:00
6 Tue Trieste, Italy 08:00 16:00
7 Wed Split, Croatia 09:00 18:00
8 Thu Dubrovnik, Croatia 05:00 Transfer ferry to Kolocep

 

Hotel: Sensimar Kalamota Island Resort, Kolocep, Dubrovnik & Islands

Junior Suite with Balcony or Terrace

£4,201.88      

07/03/2018

Repositioning Cruise BMX

FB 18 nights

Marella Celebration - Transatlantic Sunset

Suite Cabin with Premier Service

Day Port Arrival Time Departure Time
1 Wed La Romana - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - 20:00
2 Thu At Sea
3 Fri Willemstad - CURACAO 08:00 18:00
4 Sat Oranjestad - ARUBA 08:00 22:00
5 Sun Kralendijk - BONAIRE 09:00 18:00
6 Mon At Sea
7 Tue Castries - ST. LUCIA 08:00 17:00
8 Wed St. John's - ANTIGUA 09:00 18:00
9 Thu Philipsburg - ST. MAARTEN 08:00 15:00
10 Fri At Sea
11 Sat
12 Sun
13 Mon
14 Tue
15 Wed
16 Thu Funchal - MADEIRA 14:00 19:00
17 Fri At Sea
18 Sat Gibraltar - GIBRALTAR 11:00 22:00
19 Sun Malaga - SPAIN 06:00 To airport
£3,182.60     PJ&LJ

10/12/2017

Hotel BMX

HB 11 nights

Sensimar Los Gigantes, Los Gigantes, Tenerife

Double Room with Sea View and Balcony

Stuck overnight in Birmingham

Scheduled Time of Departure

15:30 GMT 10th December 2017

Actual Time of Departure

13:40 GMT 11th December 2017

Reason for Delay

It was very snowy (lucky to get a taxi to the airport) - shuttled around the airport with a promise of a flight - checked in then checked out again. Finally bused to a hotel - bed and breakfast then back to the airport.

£1,372.46     PJ&LJ

26/10/2017

Repositioning Cruise

6 nights

Thomson Spirit

Suite Cabin with Premier Service

Day Port Arrival Time Departure Time
1 Thu Croatia Dubrovnik - 23:00
2 Fri Montenegro Kotor 08:00 16:00
3 Sat At Sea
4 Sun Greece Piraeus (for Athens) 09:00 18:00
5 Mon Thira Santorini 07:00 18:00
6 Tue Rhodes Rhodes Town 08:00 14:00
7 Wed Cyprus Limassol 08:00 to airport
£1,758.30     PJ&LJ

24/08/2017

Hotel EMA HB 14 nights

H10 Timanfaya Palace Hotel, Playa Blanca, Lanzarote £1,858.60     LJ&KJ

04/05/2017

Cruise and Stay BMX

 

Thomson Spirit

Suite Cabin with Premier Service

Day Port Arrival Time Departure Time
1 Thu 4/5/17 Croatia Dubrovnik - 22:00
2 Fri 5/5/17 At Sea
3 Sat 6/5/17 Slovenia Koper 08:00 22:00
4 Sun 7/5/17 Italy Venice 08:00 18:00
5 Mon 8/5/17 Croatia Pula 07:00 18:00
6 Tue 9/5/17 Croatia Zadar 08:00 18:00
7 Wed 10/5/17 Croatia Split 08:00 18:00
8 Thu 11/5/17 Croatia Dubrovnik 05:00 Transfer ferry to Kolocep

 

Hotel: Sensimar Kalamota Island Resort, Kolocep, Dubrovnik & Islands

Double Room with Limited Sea View and Balcony

£3,435.56     PJ&LJ

20/11/2016

Hotel BMX HB 14 nights

H10 Timanfaya Palace Hotel, Playa Blanca, Lanzarote £1,798.76     LJ&KJ

30/08/2016

Hotel BMX FB 7 nights

Sensimar Los Gigantes, Los Gigantes, Tenerife

Double Room with Balcony

£1,090.36     PJ&LJ

19/05/2016

Cruise and Stay BMX

Flight included two free half bottles of champagne

 

Thomson Celebration

Suite Cabin with Premier Service

Day Port Arrival Time Departure Time
1 Thu 19/5/16 Dubrovnik - Croatia - 22:00
2 Fri 20/5/16 At Sea
3 Sat 21/5/16 Koper - Slovenia 08:00 18:00
4 Sun 22/5/16 Venice - Italy 8:00 18:00
5 Mon 23/5/16 Rijeka - Croatia 08:00 6:00
6 Tue 24/5/16 Korcula - Croatia 08:00 18:00
7 Wed 25/5/16 Durres - Albania 08:00 18:00
8 Thu 26/5/16 Dubrovnik - Croatia 05:00 Transfer ferry to Kolocep

 

Hotel: Sensimar Kalamota Island Resort, Kolocep, Dubrovnik & Islands

Superior Double Room with Garden View and Balcony

£3,085.16     PJ&LJ

15/02/2016

Hotel EMA

AI: 7 nights

 

Suite Princess Hotel Playa - Taurito, Gran Canaria

unior Suite with Sea View and Balcony

£1,478.02     PJ&LJ

07/12/2015

Hotel BMX

HB 10 night

H10 Timanfaya Palace Hotel, Playa Blanca, Lanzarote

Double room with garden view With Private Bath Shower WC Balcony Air Conditioning

      PJ&LJ

14/10/2015

Hotel BMX

HB 14 nights

Cala Galdana Hotel, Cala Galdana, Menorca £988.00     LJ&KJ

01/09/2015

Hotel BMX HB 7 nights

Tenerife - Los Gigantes Hotel (Steif Hotel)

Double room With Private Bath Shower WC Balcony Air Conditioning

£ 1354.00     PJ&LJ

07/05/2015

BHX Cruise

Ship: Thomson Celebration Itinerary: Adriatic Affair / Croatian Classics

14 nights

Ports of Call: Dubrovnik, Ship At Sea, Koper, Venice, Sibenik, Korcula, Bari, Dubrovnik, Ship At Sea, Rovinj, Venice, Trieste, Zadar, Split, Dubrovnik

 

£3275.00     PJ&LJ

07/12/2014

BHX Cruise

Ship: Thomson Celebration

Itinerary: Tropical Delights / Caribbean Treasures

Day Date Port Island
1 7/12/14 Bridgetown Barbados
2 8/12/14 Ship At Sea
3 9/12/14 Pointe-À-Pitre Guadeloupe
4 10/12/14 Kingstown St Vincent & The Grenadines
5 11/12/14 Castries St Lucia
6 12/12/14 St George's Grenada
7 13/12/14 Scarborough Tobago
8 14/12/14 Bridgetown Barbados
9 15/12/14 Ship At Sea
10 16/12/14 St John's Antigua
11 17/12/14 Philipsburg St Maarten
12 18/12/14 Basseterre St Kitts
13 19/12/14 St Barths St Barths
14 20/12/14 Roseau Dominica
15 21/12/14 Bridgetown Barbados

 

Suite with Private Bath, Shower, WC

£3320.00     PJ&LJ

22/10/2014

Hotel BMX HB 7 nights Hotel Audax & Wellness Centre £ 682.00     PJ&LJ

01/07/2014

Hotel BMX HB 7 nights

Tenerife - Los Gigantes Hotel (Steif Hotel)

Double room With Private Bath Shower WC Balcony Air Conditioning

£774.14     LJ&KJ

21/04/2014

Hotel BMX HB 14 nights

H10 Timanfaya Palace Hotel, Playa Blanca, Lanzarote

Double room with garden view With Private Bath Shower WC Balcony Air Conditioning

£ 1434.00     PJ&LJ

13/01/2014

Hotel BMX HB 7 nights

H10 Timanfaya Palace Hotel, Playa Blanca, Lanzarote

Double room with garden view With Private Bath Shower WC Balcony Air Conditioning

£908.00     PJ&LJ

28/10/2013

Repositioning Cruise

Ship: Thomson Celebration

Itinerary: Western Promise

14 nights

Depart:Birmingham - Mon 28-Oct-2013 07:00 to Arrive:Dalaman - Mon 28-Oct-2013 13:05

Returning Disembarkation Port: Portsmouth - Mon 11-Nov-2013

WHEN THE SHIP ARRIVES IN PORTSMOUTH A FREE COACH WILL TAKE YOUBACK TO THE AIRPORT YOU FLEW FROM.

Ports of Call: Marmaris, Aghios Nikolaos, Athens, Ship At Sea ,Naples, Rome, Ajaccio, Barcelona, Cartagena, Motril, Cadiz, Lisbon, Ship At Sea, Ship At Sea, Portsmouth

£2720.00     PJ&LJ

21/09/2013

Hotel BMX

HB 7 nights

Cala Galdana Hotel, Cala Galdana, Menorca £1082.00     LJ&KJ

22/06/2013

Hotel BMX

HB 5 nights

Son Caliu Hotel Spa Oasis, Palma Nova, Mallorca

(Travelled with Hays Travel)

£1272.81     LJ&PJ

29/5/2013

Hotel BMX

HB 7 nights

Cala Galdana Hotel, Cala Galdana, Menorca £1122.00     LJ&KJ

12/04/2012

Ship: Thomson Celebration

Deck 6/7 Deluxe Cabin

Itinerary: Red Sea Magic

7 nights

Day Port Activity
1 Thu Sharm El Sheikh - Egypt Time to relax, settle in onboard and begin to explore the ship.
2 Fri Aqaba - Jordan  
3 Sat

Excursion: Petra - The Rose Red City

Duration: Full Day takes 10hrs

Cost: £220.00

4 Sun At Sea  
5 Mon Port Sokhna (For Cairo)  
6 Tue Safaga (For Luxor And Hurghada) - Egypt

Excursion: Luxor Overnight With Sound & Light Show

Duration: Overnight

Cost: £304.00

7 Wed Port
8 Thu Sharm El Sheikh - Egypt Disembark

 

£524.00 spent on excursions

£1332.00     PJ&LJ

25/08/2011

Ship: Thomson Destiny

Itinerary: Mediterranean Renaissance

Ports of Call:

Palma,Ship At Sea,Villefranche, Marina Di Carrara, Rome, Olbia, Mahon, Palma

Cabin: Deck 4/5 Outside   2 X Adults  with Shower, WC

£1500.00     LJ&KJ

13/04/2011

Ship: Thomson Spirit

Itinerary: Land of the Pharaohs

  £1783.00     PJ&LJ

16/12/2010

Hotel BMX HB 7 nights H10 Lanzarote Princess Hotel £ 736.00     PJ&LJ
2010

Ship: Thomson Spirit

Itinerary: Fire and Ice

        PJ&LJ
24/07/2009

Ship: Thomson Spirit

Itinerary: North Cape Explorer

14 nights

NORTH CAPE EXPLORER

Harwich, UK - Ship at Sea - Bergen, Norway - Ship at Sea - Leknes Lofoten, Norway - Honningsvag, Norway - Alta, Norway - Tromso, Norway - Ship at Sea - Alesund, Norway - Flam, Norway - Eidfjord, Norway - Stavanger, Norway - Ship at Sea - Harwich, UK

 

      PJ&LJ&KJ

05/08/2008

Ship: Thomson Celebration Itinerary: Baltic Capitals

Deck 6/7 Deluxe Cabin with Private Bath Shower WC

12 nights

RETURN COACH TRANSPORT OPTION - LEGER HOLIDAYS

Embarkation: Port: HARWICH 05/08/2008 Disembarkation: Port: HARWICH 17/08/2008

Cruise Details Itinerary: Ship: Thomson Celebration

Port of Embarkation: HARWICH

Ports of Call: St Petersburg - Russia, Stockholm - Sweden, Tallinn - Estonia, Helsinki- Finland, Kalundborg (For Copenhagen) - Denmark, Warnemunde - Germany, Harwich - Uk, Harwich - Uk, St Petersburg - Russia, Harwich - UK

£3,217.00     PJ&LJ&KJ

17/08/2007

BHX Cruise

Ship: Thomson Celebration Itinerary: Jewels of the Mediterranean/ Roman Epic

14 nights

Suite with Private Bath Shower WC

Ports of Call: Palma, La Goulette, Naples, Ajaccio, Marseille, Barcelona, Palma

Ports of Call: Palma, Toulon (For St Tropez), La Spezia (For Florence & Pisa), Civitavecchia (For Rome), Alghero, Mahon, Palma

£4,974.00     PJ&LJ&KJ
07/08/2006

Hotel BMX

Thomas Cook

Mogan Princess, Taurito, Gran Canaria HB

14 days

      PJ&LJ&KJ
08/08/2005

Hotel BMX

Thomas Cook

Mogan Princess, Taurito, Gran Canaria HB

14 days

£1623     PJ&LJ&KJ
20/12/2004 Hotel BMX

Antillas, Magaluf, Mallorca HB

5 days

      PJ&LJ&KJ
12/08/2004

Hotel BMX

Thomson

Suite Princess, Taurito, Gran Canaria HB

14 days

£2503

£96.47

(Paid by Lunn Poly)

  PJ&LJ&KJ
2003  

Suite Princess, Taurito, Gran Canaria HB

14 days

      PJ&LJ&KJ
2002  

Fuerteventura Princess, Fuerteventura

HB

      PJ&LJ&KJ
16/08/2001

Hotel BMX

Thomas Cook

Maspalomas Princess, Maspalomas, Gran Canaria HB

14 days

      PJ&LJ&KJ
2000   Maspalomas Princess, Maspalomas, Gran Canaria HB       PJ&LJ&KJ
1999 Hotel BMX Cala San Vicente, Mallorca       PJ&LJ&KJ

 

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