What is it like taking a cruise holiday over Christmas and New Year?
My family were worried that a Christmas cruise would be a big risk. Was it the best type of Christmas holiday? Would we miss the rest of our friends and family? Harry, aged seven, was terrified Santa wouldn’t be able to find us at sea. Five-year-old Millie was in tears worrying that Father Christmas would climb down the ship’s funnel… and meet a terrible doom in the boilers below. Despite all those worries we joined the elegant Princess Cruises ship, Star Princess for a two-week cruise in the southern hemisphere that at least guaranteed a sunny break from the British winter. But could this one ship cater for our different Christmas demands? I soon discovered the crew had to perform a delicate balancing act. It wasn’t just our family’s differing requirements; there were 2,300 other passengers from all over the world, all with different ideas about what Christmas should entail. When I asked about the delicate issue of Christmas crackers, jovial maitre d’ Luigi threw his hands in the air
