Around a million people in the UK take an ocean cruise trip every year. It's big business, and you can see why more and more people are getting the cruising bug.

Here in the UK residents are spoiled for choice, with over 30,000 cruises to choose from in any one year.

Take your pick from the Caribbean, the Med and the Canaries, the Far East, Australia, the Indian Ocean, South America or Alaska...

Or go for bust and do the whole dang lot of them in the shape of a world cruise.

One of the attractions of cruising is that you have everything you could possibly want/need in one location - your floating holiday resort - and you get to stop off at amazing places.

With their own restaurants, bars, theatres, nightclubs, shops, children's play areas, sports facilities, swimming pools ... the big cruise liners have the lot.

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You can cruise from as little as 2 nights to over 100 nights - check out single, multi-trip/annual/long stay insurance prices online and compare prices

You could play golf on one of your stopovers - but make sure you're covered for personal liability

Cruise lines are keen to attract families, with generous discounts on offer - Family/Group Travel Insurance

There are over 7,000 agents in the UK but only a handful are cruise experts, according to 1st4Cruising.com, part of Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines. They claim to be specialists who have visited or cruised on over 75% of the ships available and advise from personal experience

To suit everyone

Whether it's aboard a classic 'Cutty Sark' style sail ship cruising round the Caribbean or a Cunard-size mega liner in the Med, there's a holiday to suit everyone - singles, couples and families.

Surrounded by cabin crew, including medics (some even have dialysis machines), and boat bound for most of the trip on your floating holiday resort, you might think about stinting on insurance.

Don't.

Mishaps can happen at sea just as they do on dry land.

Just ask the 400 passengers unlucky enough to be on the P&O Cruise vessel Aurora in October 2003.

They were confined to their cabin after being struck down off the Greek mainland by the contagious noro virus which causes sickness and diarrhoea.

It was a Mediterranean cruise they won't forget in a hurry.

And whether you're shopping in Gibraltar or climbing Dunn's River Falls in Jamaica on one of your stop off tours, accidents can happen and you need to make sure you're covered for the worst.

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