Doris Visits

29/12/2025

Alta is our new video, posted 28th Dec... our last of 2025. Two new ones next week, as we are off to Italy then fly to join a ship in Peru. The ALTA video on Youtube has a new YouTube feature - please take a look and see if you have it. We explain the new BUTTON... on a YouTube film that is new, and that means in its first SEVEN days only - there is a new button that sits temporarily next to the LIKE button. This is called the HYPE button. It is supposed to help smaller channels like Cruise Doris Visits collect HYPE points for that video ... these can add some magic to that new films (as most sites have grown so huge that small sites cannot get recognition when pitched against them). Can you see if you have a HYPE button in our ALTA video - press it for us, also press the LIKE button, and then watch the video all the way through ... if you have never done the Northern Lights Cruise or cruised into the snow, then this will either intrigue you or confirm your choice. Please look, leave ALTA cruise port running to the end, press LIKE and press the new HYPE ... and we will see what it does for that film ... it is rare to see vistas like this

The farther north you travel, the colder it becomes, and the more the skies put on a show. Sunsets blaze with surreal colours,the night skies thrill, and the...

24/12/2025

Merry Christmas from all the contributors and admins and mods at Doris Visits.

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24/12/2025

Thinking of cruising Norway - take a took and enjoy the virtual ease of doing it from the warmth of your living room.

TROMSO = https://youtu.be/wRVesOISy8M

HAUGESUND = https://youtu.be/UqWuFVAtC9o
NARVIK = https://youtu.be/czV01wyXfwU

ALTA = https://youtu.be/d4iX8ieT8WE
ÅNDALSNES = https://youtu.be/DgLGiW4QqEE

STAVANGER = https://youtu.be/EbJfruf3T-M
BERGEN = https://youtu.be/W9v7Dmg56uI
FLAM = https://youtu.be/WhiGP5Mvh1s

Doris Visits Tromsø, Norway and sees the Northern Lights.At last, we reached Tromsø, and the sky was alive with green. Curtains of aurora rippled overhead, f...

21/12/2025

Where are you cruising in 2026? Rio, Brazil? That is not such a crazy ambition - look at the ships stopping there 🚢 Cruise Ship Calls at Rio de Janeiro – 2026 Season
Fred Olsen gets there for an overnight at the Carnival as they often do.

January 2026
01 Jan 2026 MS Hamburg, Costa Favolosa, MSC Sinfonia
04 Jan MSC Armonia
08 Jan MSC Fantasia, MSC Sinfonia
10 Jan MSC Armonia, Costa Favolosa
15 Jan MSC Sinfonia
16 Jan MSC Fantasia
17 Jan MSC Armonia
18 Jan Costa Favolosa, Volendam
19 Jan Volendam
21 Jan MS Marina
22 Jan MS Marina, Aurora, MSC Sinfonia
23 Jan Aurora, MS Vista
24 Jan MS Vista, MSC Armonia
25 Jan MS Vista, MSC Fantasia
27 Jan Costa Favolosa
30 Jan Azamara Quest
31 Jan Azamara Quest, MSC Armonia

February 2026
02 Feb MSC Fantasia
04 Feb Costa Favolosa
05 Feb Ambition
06 Feb Ambition
07 Feb MSC Armonia
11 Feb MSC Fantasia
13th Main Carnival starts - champions parade 21st
13 Feb Costa Favolosa, Borealis, Silver Whisper
14 Feb Borealis, Silver Whisper, MSC Armonia, Sapphire Princess
15 Feb Borealis, Silver Whisper, Pacific World
16 Feb Silver Whisper, Aidamar, Pacific World
17 Feb Aidamar, Pacific World
20 Feb MSC Fantasia
21 Feb MSC Armonia, Costa Favolosa
23 Feb MS Artania
24 Feb MS Artania, Seven Seas Splendor
25 Feb MS Artania
28 Feb MSC Armonia

March 2026
01 Mar Hanseatic Spirit, Costa Favolosa, MSC Fantasia
07 Mar MSC Armonia
09 Mar MSC Fantasia
14 Mar MSC Armonia
16 Mar MS Marina, Costa Favolosa
17 Mar MS Marina
18 Mar MS Marina, MSC Fantasia
20 Mar Celebrity Equinox
21 Mar Celebrity Equinox
23 Mar Celebrity Equinox
24 Mar Celebrity Equinox
26 Mar Scenic Eclipse, Europa 2
27 Mar Europa 2
28 Mar MSC Fantasia

April 2026
Date Ship
02 Apr World Traveller
03 Apr MSC Preziosa
04 Apr Seabourn Venture
12 Apr MSC Seaview
20 Apr Costa Diadema (last scheduled call of the season)
(Season officially ends with this call on 20 April 2026.)

19/12/2025

I have reduced the price of Cruise Ship Heist to 6.99 by removing our margin. So, if anyone needs a last minute stocking filler for this 5* exciting cruise novel Amazon say they will deliver by Sunday (at the moment) https://amzn.to/48XpIh6
This is a Doris Visits book - there are 9 published in the series.

A humorous, action-packed, and tension laden thriller based on a cruise ship leaving South America. It is as impossible for the reader to second guess, just as it is hard for the characters to know who to trust. Twists and turns have become Stuart St Paul's trademark. Cruise Ship Heist, the prequ...

19/12/2025

Haugesund, Norway - Doris Visits Haugesund to find the horse statues that were in the Thames first, in 2015 - then the town. And why is there a Marilyn Monroe statue there? The town claims to be the actress's, who was born Norma Jeane Mortenson, ancestral home, as her father, a local baker, emigrated to the United States from Haugesund. We hear that might not be correct and that DNA testing in 2022 proved her biological father was Charles Stanley Gifford, a supervisor at RKO Studios, but there is a statue there - It is cold - wrap up warm

Doris Visits Haugesund, Norway. The video shows the hike to The Rising Seas, a set of statues of horses with oil derricks as heads. These were originally ere...

17/12/2025

Merry Christmas to all at P&O and all fellow guests - please add you wishes and share -

A seasonal message for all at P&O and all who sail with them.

17/12/2025

Our Åndalsnes post, the port guide - featuring other Northern Norway ports https://www.dorisvisits.com/andalsnes/

17/12/2025

Norway - going north to see the Northern Lights, Cold and Crisp and Even .... and we did see them.
Ånalsnes, absolutely beautiful - please share with cruisers and repost...

Åndalsnes in Norway - Doris Visits guide to Åndalsnes shows the small town and the view from the top, accessed by cable car. It is a small town in Rauma Muni...

29/11/2025

It's Caribbean Season!
I guess I should make a top twenty Caribbean films video as I did for the Med ...

They are all on this playlist... WYSIWYG Cruising from Doris Visits This is a link to our YOUTUBE Caribbean Playlist - a guide to most ports, the bus routes, the beaches and what to see...

The Caribbean Season is famous for attracting most of the ships to one massive area between late November and March. We have updated this list of great ports.

29/11/2025

As your admins (and cruise speakers) we spend a lot of time at sea, and this season is no exception!
David has just stepped off a Marella ship and straight onto the Queen Anne, while Roy is recovering after a fall—though knowing him, he’ll be back permanently at sea before long.

Jean (our port-video presenter on the Doris Visits YouTube Channel) and I are about to board the Aurora to see what Norway has in store for us this Christmas.

This year I’ve added a new—and rather mad—story to my talks: the time I was in Hollywood about to direct a sci-fi movie with James Caan and Jean-Marc Barr when the project was abruptly canned. I ended up flying back with Jean-Marc and shooting the British period love story The Scarlet Tunic instead. I directed my daughter, Laura Aikman (Gavin & Stacey, This City Is Ours), who was 11 at the time and she moved the whole crew to tears. Not her first film—and far from her last. Funny old business, this.

If you see me on stage on a ship, please come and say hello and ask questions. I’ll also be telling of my time on Mrs Brown’s Boys this voyage and again when I’m back on the Aurora after Christmas in South America.

Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday period and smooth seas ahead!
https://www.dorisvisits.com/the-scarlet-tunic/