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Three ways to book your cruise
July 6, 2011 by expatdoc ˇ 1 Comment
It's easy to suffer from information overload and analysis
paralysis when trying to book your cruise holiday. 30 000 cruises
and 2000 worldwide destinations, hundreds of travel websites and
insurance options - where to begin? The first step: get yourself a
copy of a reputable cruise ... [Read More...]
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Hi, I'm Christoph Lombard, a South African trained medical doctor
working in the Emergency and Travel Health fields. Recently I've
published an eBook: Essential Travel Health Tips for Cruise Ship
Trips that delves deep into cruise trip planning. Why not take a
look? Medicine is my passport. ... [Read More...]

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Three ways to book your cruise

By expatdoc | News

It's easy to suffer from information overload and analysis paralysis
when trying to book your cruise holiday.
30 000 cruises and 2000 worldwide destinations, hundreds of travel
websites and insurance options - where to begin?

The first step: get yourself a copy of a reputable cruise guidebook.

I suggest Cruising & Cruise Ships, 2011, by Douglas Ward.

Douglas granted me one of his very few interviews in early 2011. And
what a pleasure it was to meet this gentleman of the seas during one of
his rare visits to dry land. We met at the delightful Westover Hall
Hotel in Milford-on-Sea, a quant seaside resort worthy of a visit in
itself.

Douglas has done it all. He started his career in 1965 on the Cunard's
RMS Queen Elizabeth, at 83 673 tons then largest cruise ship in the
world. (Compare that to Royal Caribbean's latest, the Allure of the
Seas, weighing a staggering 222500 ton - almost three times as large!
For the record, the Allure is 2 inches longer than its identical
sister, the Oasis of the Seas - making it the largest cruise ship in
the world.)

Over the next 17 years, Douglas worked for eight different cruise
companies and ended it off on a high note as a cruise director. In
total, he's spent more than 5000 days at sea and very impressively,
completed almost 150 trans-Atlantic crossings. And he's still at it.
For 200 days a year, you'll find him at sea, experiencing and reviewing
cruise ships.

I like his book, Cruising & Cruise Ships, 2011, because he asks the
right questions and gives sound advice. I'll be surprised if the ship
you're considering is not dissected in detail among the 285 vessels
profiled. And somewhere among its 720 pages you'll find value.

Of course, there are many other things to consider when planning your
cruise holiday, of which health is but one. However, if there's one
event that will change your budget in a heartbeat, then it's an
unplanned illness, accident or injury. It's a tragedy, as many of these
unforeseen medical costs could have been avoided.

Through my years spend as traveling doctor - also working as cruise
ship doctor - I've amassed an armamentarium of tricks and tips that
would make anyone's traveling easier. I want to share this knowledge -
thus the motivation behind creating this site.

Have a look at my e-Book, Essential Travel Health Tips for Cruise Ship
Trips - how to choose your travel agent. askexpertdoctor_v2_final

Why not take a look at the online version of the e-Book itself.Be
prepared to be amazed! It's extremely interactive and a joy to read.
Why should an online article or e-Book always be boring? I love and
respect books and the skill of reading just too much, not to make the
most of it. It's a little thank you for joining my site.

However, that's not all - you can also download it to your mobile
device, be it Windows, Mac, iPad, Kindle ,Palm, Epub or PDF. That's my
second gift to you: a tool - to use whenever and wherever you like. I
want you to have it immediately to hand when you need it most. And
believe me - it will help you.

It's the first in a planned series of e-Books dealing with travel
health and safety issues. Subscribers will be notified as each new
title is published. And it's not just for cruisers - any traveler will
find value between its pages.

In broad terms, it deals with the three main ways of planning and
booking your cruise. However, it doesn't stop there. Once you've read
it through, you'll be able to sit down with any travel agent and
negotiate a deal that will suit you best. And if ever you're in trouble
on the high seas - you'll have a guide to help you get through it.

Is there anything more to give?

Of course! However, my last gift may not be for everyone. It will
depend on your outlook on e-commerce.

Most people just enjoy the internet for its functional or entertainment
value. When finished browsing or using it for a specific task, they
logoff and are done with it. I used to be like that.

That was before I realized that it can be much more than just a tool or
form of entertainment. If the online persona's are to be believed, it
can become an alternative - or even primary - way of earning a living.
And who am I to disagree?

To me, it makes sense. Fuel and oil prices are just going to keep on
rising, and many more of us will be forced to work from home. Commuting
and road congestion will become a nightmare!

As bandwith and download speeds increase, emerging markets will be
unlocked. Today, the majority of the world's population still doesn't
have access to the internet. Despite this, just look at the immense
market this infant of an industry already serves. Can you imagine how
gigantic its reach will become?

This gold rush is not over yet, despite the many billions that have
been scooped off already. To the contrary, I think we're but at the
start of it. And we - who recognize this opportunity - are in the
fortunate position to claim our stake now. Have you thought about the
e-commerce opportunities it presents to you?

And that's my last gift to you: this e-Book is available in rebrandable
format. It simply means that if you want to go to the trouble of
inserting your own affiliate hyperlinks, you can. I would suggest that
you first read and download the e-Book. If you think it has e-commerce
value for you, then use the e-Book as the guide to choose your links.

Subscribe and be kept abreast of updates and new releases.

Take a look at the rebrandable version following this link.
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Christoph Lombard

By expatdoc | About Me

Hi, I'm Christoph Lombard, a South African trained medical doctor
working in the Emergency and Travel Health fields.

Recently I've published an eBook: Essential Travel Health Tips for
Cruise Ship Trips that delves deep into cruise trip planning. Why not
take a look?

Medicine is my passport. It opens doors into worlds that are off the
beaten tourist track. Practicing as doctor may not be the most
glamorous of professions any more, but it certainly still has its
perks. One of them being the ability to travel and work all over the
world on both land and sea. The skills that allow us doctors and nurses
to unlock the secrets of the human condition, also allow us to unlock
the secrets of other peoples hearts and homes.

To us medics, everybody is pretty much the same. Even though our
languages, cultures, religions and colors may differ, we all bleed the
same red-we all suffer the same agonies. Kindness, compassion and
friendship are a universal language understood by all...

"Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can read."
~ Mark Twain.

Kindness, however, is in short supply in the public hospitals of South
Africa. These are the hospitals in which I received my training as
medical student. It's the kind of hospitals you'll find in a war zone -
where even today doctors can be raped and killed at work.

Neither are the patients safe: recently, allegations were made of
oxygen supply sabotage in some South African public hospitals.

Many women would rather die at home, than be subjected to the tender
mercies of the average public hospital labour ward. It's hell. Period.

Even more horrific, hospital personnel have harvested body parts for
muti: "...Parts are also sometimes harvested from corpses with mortuary
workers and hospital staffers implicated in aspects of the trade. In a
1998 case a Limpopo Province tuberculosis patient disappeared from his
hospital bed and was later found dead near the doctors' quarters. His
scrotum had been removed and his penis skinned. Police suspected that
the killers came from within the hospital given a tight security regime
preventing casual access to the premises (wa Afrika, 1998)."

But it's not all doom and gloom - there is the private sector to
brighten things up! At least in these posh facilities, you'll get paid
for your organs. But alas, like the rest of South Africa, even here
you're not safe.

Is it any wonder then, that so many doctors and nurses have fled this
insanity and may very well be practicing in your country? (That is,
those that managed to survive - three of my colleagues and class mates
have been murdered or killed to date: Hanno Boon, Paul Meyer and Johan
Nel.)

Any wonder then that I don't promote the country of my birth as holiday
destination? (Sorry, I digress)

The life saving skills I was taught back then, now allow me to help
others wherever I find myself practicing in the world. My own
experiences were taken to the next level by fellow South African, Dr
Jonathan Kaplan - war surgeon and author: "There is no doubt that in SA
there was this unusual combination of First World medical training in a
Third World environment. So you saw a lot of trauma and it made us good
at dealing with it. And, partly, it gave you the confidence of knowing
that if you have to deal with something you will. You may not be able
to call on a skilled senior."

If you'd like to find out more about this fascinating man, then I
highly recommend his two books: "The dressing station" and "Contact
wounds"

We like to think that everything changes when we move on to a new
place, only to find that nothing has changed. As an Accident and
Emergency doctor, I still have to duck the same cocktail of blood, guts
and tears, even in the UK's first world NHS (National Health Service)
hospitals. But in South Africa's public hospitals, that mix sometimes
contains solids of a more toxic nature - like flying bullets! And
ducking then saves more than just your shoes...what interesting skills
medicine teaches its practitioners?

Traveling has always been in my blood, ever since I was a student hitch
hiking across South Africa and neighboring Namibia.

Years later, as doctor, I found myself in some other out of the way
places too. I've felt the oppressive humidity and oven heat of the
sweltering Indonesian jungle, hundreds of miles from the nearest
hospital and desperately dependent on our nearest small airport, Babo.
It is a forgotten little jungle strip where wreckage of WWII Japanese
bombers still litters the undergrowth at the end of the runway.

I've felt the biting cold of Russian ice fields too. Sakhalin Island
has its own community of expatriate workers and their families and
doctors are needed to take care of them.

But most relevant to this site, is my work as cruise ship doctor.
Sometimes, things go wrong for passengers and they end up in the
infirmary. It is then that I ask myself, "How could this have been
prevented? What can I do to keep someone else from having the same
experience?"

And from that background, this site was born. Whether you're a
greenhorn just spreading your wings or an old sea-dog with hundreds of
cruises behind you, I hope that all of you will find value here:
practical travel health tips for whatever holiday, trip or adventure
you're planning. I want you to avoid the sickbay and enjoy your best
cruise holiday ever. After all, traveling should be fun!

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