This comes from deputy features editor Joanna Booth...
Whilst cruising down the Croatian and Italian coast on Hebridean Spirit I was amused to hear how possessive the company's regular customers have become.
The ships are so small (30 cabins on the Princess and 50 on the Spirit) that many guests choose one cabin and stick with it religiously, even changing the dates of their holidays to ensure availability.
Hebridean staff have fielded tetchy phone calls from returning cruisers who ring to chide that the company hadn¹t informed them it had redecorated their cabin.
We really got a feel for the difference in scale between our ship and the larger vessels when docked in Venice. As we sat on deck enjoying an alfresco breakfast in the sunshine, the Costa Serena inched majestically by, bookended by tug boats. It was like a double-decker bus crossing paths with a smart car.
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