Cruising for an adventure

Cruising sceptic Diane McDermott spent a week around Dubai and its environs, taking in dubious marketplaces, majestic building, and the Brilliance of the Seas.

WE had never been cruising before and standing quayside at Port Rashid, Dubai, gazing upwards at 90,000 tonnes of towering steel we began to wonder, is this really for us?

We were about to embark on an Arabian adventure but instead of the mythical magic carpet our mode of transport was to be the resplendent Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas, a Radiance Class cruise ship.