Would your clients enjoy this Fred Olsen mystery sailing?

Click here to download and save as a PDF

"We are leaving the port of Zeebruge and after that, I have no idea where we’re going," announces Captain Mikael Degerlund over the ship’s public address system.

The prospect of – quite literally – being all at sea would normally be a cause for concern, but laughter ripples through the lounge. I’m on a mystery cruise aboard Fred Olsen Cruise Line’s Borealis and not knowing is all part of the fun.

Friends are intrigued when I tell them I’m embarking on a voyage into the unknown. Despite cruise director Anthony Cranny pulling our leg as we left Portsmouth two days before, when he welcomed us on board our ’Caribbean cruise’, I guessed we wouldn’t get that far (and back) in five nights. So I’d packed for UK-style weather and, thankfully, it was the right choice.