Cruise Lines

After all the Freedoms and Liberties, the cruise industry has moved on to Dreams.

I am now on my way to the ship that will become Thomson Dream next April and after a quick nip back to the UK to chair a cruise session at World Travel Market on Tuesday (it's from 12.30-1.30 so if you're at the show, why not come along), I'm off to New York to join Carnival Cruise Lines' new ship, Carnival Dream.

I'll be there for the naming and a three-night cruise to nowhere, and I'm just hoping it will be warm so I can try out all the water slides!

Then in January 2011, Disney Cruise Line will be launching the Disney Dream. Too early to know what I am doing there, but there are some exciting things on board as I reported from New York last week.

But back to Thomson Dream. At the moment the ship is sailing as Costa Cruises' Costa Europa, but it joins Thomson next April on a 10-year charter.

I was last on the ship for the celebrations when it joined the Costa fleet, which is some time ago, so I'm looking forward to seeing it again - and interested to see how good my memory of the vessel is after all these years.

I'll let you know.