We were a family of four (2 children aged 11 and 9) travelling from Manchester (UK) to Miami. This may be a long review but I wanted to put something out there about how easy it is to do a cruise from the UK to Miami and it probably cost no more than a trip to the med.

This was our 13th cruise and 4th to the Caribbean. It was our 3rd trip with Royal Carribbean and 2nd on the Allure (previous one was in the med).

We decieded to do a few days in miami first and travelled from Manchester on the Thursday before. Unfortunalty Manchester dont do direct flights to Miami which meant we had to do a stop over to Paris. The overall journey time was 13 hours, which was a bit of a faff but worth it in the end. Read more