Doris Visits

12/02/2025

Off to Copenhagen again? What else is there to do? It can be a theme parkday.

Shot with written permission from Tivoli and not featuring minors, this is a brief overview of some of the many rides at the wonderful Tivoli Gardens. The at...

12/02/2025

🌉 🍷 Porto, Portugal - A shuttle away from the beach the ship stops next to, will drop you in the heart of Porto. If you want to known how to approach the hill climbs and bridge, see Jean’s film. Jean Cruises into Porto.

This is the Doris Visits guide Exploring The Magic Of Porto On The Douro River: Jean's Adventure From Leixoes Cruise Port.The full blog with information and ...

11/02/2025

If you use BookBUB, would you mind landing on my cruise crime author profile page please, to see all the cruise crime thrillers we produce. There is now a profile there.

As a result of the multitude of story-telling tricks learnt during his time as a director, Stuart St Pau delivers a humorous, action-packed, and...

11/02/2025

The world's gems await - and some are so near.

This is a list of Cruise ports near to home, which run between Cherbourg and Gibraltar. They are used for short cruises as well as staging ports for longer c...

10/02/2025

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This is the Doris Visits guide for what to do, and what there is, in Vigo, Spain. Discover The Best Attractions In Vigo, Spain - Your Ultimate Cruise Stop!On...

05/02/2025

For those of you new to Doris Visits cruise chat groups - we have a style, which is stay positive. We could be bigger if we went the other way, but we prefer to show what cruisers might like. Our sister YouTube channel is here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgHN5NcEekuJy2kYhb0syKg
Subscription is free on YouTube - and we have over 8 thousand subscribers and more followers and our cruise ports guides are about to hit 3 million views.
We are just off you video port guides at new ports in Malaysia and Mexico, Belize, Jamaica and Mauritius. They will all be added by summer. Please follow the channel. The port guides are in playlists, so you can let the playlist just play on your big screen. Please share and subscribe.

CRUISE DORIS VISITS is Jean Heard and Stuart St Paul. After 50 years in film and TV, they now cruise and film the ports. That's retirement! That and the thrilling cruise crime novels. Please subscribe to the FREE port guides and share.

03/02/2025

The last charity function of the season, the Stunt Ball at the Grosvenor House Park Lane was in aid of the air ambulance (Essex) and we went as a family and had a great time. Graham and Gera were there two, and my old stunt partner Malcolm, they are not in this picture, but more pictures on my Director page.... now, back to sea.

03/02/2025

The average age of cruise passengers has decreased some twenty years - to 46, with millennials and Generation Z now comprising 36% of cruise travellers. That is an amazing change since the lockdown. A huge change. It shows the industry has new customers filling the cabins.
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13/01/2025

Back from skiing, the washing done. A few muscle strains to get over while deciding what to pack for our next cruise. We are both looking forward to joining the Aurora mid-cruise in South America. While skiing, I managed to make a good start on transcribing the first half of the new cruise novel into screenplay. 4 Murders, A Wedding, and A Cruise is my favourite of all books, and deliberately written so that a new reader can start with it, or read it as a one off book (even though it is book 8 - it just has a richness of time and experience). Murder is in the title, so it will not surprise readers of the series that a main character is lost - though they may be shocked at which one.
I am, as always reminded at how different the screenplay is different to a book.
In a nutshell, and audiobook of a 300 page novel (holiday read) is between 8 and 9 hours... A film is no more than two. It means one has to condense the material, or at east let it jump off the page faster. In applying the content more immediately, in this case, the time scale has changed. The days have reduced, and much has changed. David Whittington, my editor, who is currently on a ship in the Med has told me not to be tempted to change the book - so he wins.
I wanted to write another murder into the screenplay (you would need to read the book to understand) but as the title is set I walked on by.... It has come out, in first draft, that with half the book done (which in this book is the point at which they step on the cruise ship) it is 2 x 1 hour (that is a BBC , Amazon or Netflix hour - 60 minues. As opposed to an ITV hour which is 44 minutes). I assume that the second half, the cruise itself which happens over the Christmas holiday period - will be two more hours. Meaning a four part series. I plan to do that while on the ship in South America.

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31/12/2024

We have done an end of year review... timely as it is the end of the year. 2024 Doris Visits Cruise review with our Gavin and Stacey secrets - changed a little from what we thought it would be as Jean went viral and hit 7 million views in three days as an unsuspecting GoggleBox-like watcher of the Christmas Day show ... now, it's almost time to go back to sea.

As you will see in our 2024 Doris Visits Cruise review with our Gavin and Stacey secrets, we were surprised. Our daughter shocked us on Christmas Day as she ...

26/12/2024

Quick Quizz - where is this?

26/12/2024

OMG! Shock horror - Gavin & Stacey - we honestly never knew. So as to answer all the messages and emails we are being bombarded with - we not only never knew, we were shocked. Plus Laura filmed us being shocked as we all watched it together. To explain, I had, in my ship lectures, certainly on the Britannia in December and other ships recently - during my talks on my years in TV and film - had categorically said, when asked as people do, about Laura 'will she be in the last G&S?' - I said no. I explained it was impossible because she was filming most of the later part the year in Liverpool in a new series (This City Is Ours for 2025) - so, her schedule did not allow.
She had told us she would not be.
We now know that she was sworn to secrecy. That a deal was arranged to release her for a few days from Liverpool and she was smuggled to Wales in disguise though one reporter thought they saw her. She stayed in the hotel where they filmed the wedding, was not allowed to leave or even order deliveroo or other with a credit card or account in her name ... she was not at any BBC press or screenings so that her whole marriage was unexpected by the viewers, and it his a record 12.3 million over night recorded viewers. We were shocked, her own instagram got hundreds of thousands of views of Jean and mine's reaction within ten minutes and it has already been picked up by the Express. https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/culture/gavin-and-stacey-christmas-special-sonia-laura-aikman-surprise-b2670097.html
The show hit 12.3 million viewers from initial over night figures. It is repeated on BBC2 and there is a documentary on New Years Day. So, with her Archie screening on the 29th and 30th, you may rest assured a few toasts were made at chez Doris Visits....

Gavin and Stacey star Laura Aikman recorded her family’s priceless reaction after she kept her appearance in the comedy Christmas special a secret. The actor reprised her role as Smithy’s (James Corden) fiancée Sonia for the final episode of the hit comedy, which aired on BBC One on Christmas D...

23/12/2024

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23/12/2024

The Kindle can be delivered to someone's Kindle for Christmas - but the paperback of 4 MURDERS, A WEDDING, AND A CRUISE would arrive on the 27th if ordered today on Amazon Prime.
Thanks to the few of you early readers who emailed me with the couple of typos, which are corrected and in these current versions - the magic of modern publishing....
I will try and get the Apple Book, and Google Play Book up after my ski trip with the grandchildren... then the audiobook will follow. https://amzn.to/4iOLDLy. To explain pricing. I normally put them up up at either the cheapest price I can get them at, and if I can crush the pages down to about 310 the book stays under 6.99 which is a target. BUT - to get it into the shops and hence in the system, it has to have another £3 added for them, so becomes £9.99 when the WIDER circulation button is pressed. For those who have not yet started CRUISE SHIP HEIST, it will remain at the 6.99 price for a few more weeks - then it goes back into the bookstore system. 4 Murders and A Wedding is a fine place to start if you wish.... Merry Christmas - it is set over Christmas and the attack is on Christmas Day ... but then you would expect that.
Merry Christmas to you all. Super thanks to all the wonderful moderators, from Stuart - your admin ... we will aim to make an end of year film next week.

23/12/2024

World Cruises will be coming back the long way around again this year.

Gorée Island. Dakar, Senegal is about twenty minutes from Dakar by ferry. The small 28-hectare island is 3.5 km from the mainland. It is a car-free island, k...

16/12/2024

Tree present for a cruiser? - out today - 4 Murders, A Wedding, and A Cruise - is an electrifying blend of humour, cultural insight, danger, and philosophical depth, wrapped in the intrigue of a high-stakes mystery. When the CSCI team receives a cryptic tip from a mysterious informant, they find themselves chasing shadows with nothing but their instincts and the haunting suspicion that a luxury cruise could become the stage for a catastrophic attack. Free next day delivery with Amazon Prime https://amzn.to/3VF7ZFo

As the team scrambles to untangle the truth, the fine line between intuition and evidence grows ever thinner. Are they on the brink of averting disaster, or are they being manipulated in a far larger and more sinister game?

4 Murders, A Wedding, and A Cruise is more than a thriller—it’s a richly layered journey into the complexities of trust, camaraderie, and the human drive to make sense of chaos in the face of looming peril. With its gripping suspense, vivid characters, and unexpected twists, this novel delivers a compelling mix of tension and heart, keeping readers guessing until the final, breathtaking reveal.

Fasten your seatbelt—this is one cruise you won’t want to miss.

4 Murders, A Wedding, and A Cruise: not necessarily in that order (CSCI Cruise Ship Crime Investigators)

15/12/2024

The fun island of Sint Maarten
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15/12/2024

Perhaps you might subscribe to the Doris Visits YouTube Channel - we might hit 8000 subscribers on YouTube before the end of the year. We had hoped to hit 7ooo this year but have surpassed that.... lets see if we can hit the 8k before the end of the year. Our Christmas films have started....

We have a full passenger area ship tour of the huge ship Ioan which takes 20 minutes to see all. https://youtu.be/4zYwMdn2tI0The P&O Passenger app is shown...