This summer, Royal Caribbean is home-porting a new name from the UK. She's the delightful "Plague of the Seas". In less than a fortnight she can show you the white nights of the north, with the added bonus of a complimentary norovirus for every lucky 5th customer.

If you're boarding "Jewel" this summer, be sure to pack some toilet cleaner, j-cloths, latex gloves and a plastic bucket.

RC's official body-count that succumbed to the winter vomitting virus is just over 400. Looking at the absences from table at dinner and the number of orange stickers on cabin doors (they do that so that everybody knows who is unclean), I suspect it went a tad higher than that. Read more