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That's Thomson with two TTs then?

Last week I was sent a questionnaire by Cruise.co.uk asking me to pick a high street retailer, a car company and one word that best summed up various different cruise lines. Weird or what?

Seems they are collecting information for the Association of Travel Experts, to be revealed at the ACE cruise convention in Southampton later this month.

But Cruise.dot could not resist releasing some early results from the voting and it makes for some fascinating reading.

Celebrity Cruises is Ann Summers, Norwegian Cruise Line is a Skoda and Royal Caribbean is Hamleys Toy Store (not sure if that's good or not. I think of all the folk crowded in there whenever I've been - or is that the point?).

P&O Cruises is M&S, Fred Olsen is old people (no surprise there then) and Thomson is Tescos, but also branded tacky/chavvy in the word association section. That's two Ts then.

It only needs to be voted a Toyota or Trabant in the car section for a hat trick.

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Philip Hurst:

Sorry, Jane, but I think this is a little unfair … on Toyota. Personally, I drive a VW, but to group Toyota with Thomson and Trabant is going too far. If Toyota were a cruise line, what would it be? Holland America, or Princess perhaps. Not tremendously exciting but consistent and predictable.

Philip Hurst
on board Crystal Serenity
Livorno, Italy

Nik:

Hi Jane,
I was really interested in this and wanted to have a look at the questionnaire but it didn't work so here it is
http://www.cruise.co.uk/questionnaires/Ace2010.php
I definitely wouldn't associate Thomson's with Toyota either, and Celebrity being Ann Summer's??? There really are soem weird and wonderful people out there aren't there?!