The upcoming years is bearing down upon us, and now the decision on a holiday is becoming more important. January, well that is the time that holidays are on everyone’s minds, this is where everything goes mad, and tour operators make the most of their money throughout the year. It is time to start looking at who will be taking on the beach holiday in the heavyweight for for summer, let’s see how we think cruise holidays could fair up.

Cruises have become a massive holiday experience, all across the world these exotic and rather large cruise ships are transporting people around in style. Cruise ships have been that little niche market, however now they are coming out of their shell a bit. The Cruise ship was a massive phenomenon but it was very expensive, and the price hasn’t changed much. Now that things have gotten a little cheaper and easier to access, people from everywhere and anywhere can experience these holidays. Cruises can take massive numbers aboard there ships, even in the thousands, but because of their sheer size they can quite comfortably cope with this. Cruise Ships have a massive amount of entertainment on board, there are even some with an artificial wave generator on the top of them for surfers.

The more traditional holiday is that one where you don’t really travel that much, you just travel for a while in one instance and then settle down for your holiday in one location. We will use one location as an example let’s say the Caribbean. Some great locations like St Lucia, Barbados or Antigua along with many others. If you want to save a little bit of cash, a cruise holiday is not the best way to go, and although Caribbean holidays are also a bit pricey, they do not cost as much, and they are considered more luxurious too. The only single disadvantage of this is that you can only see one place, you can’t really travel to several islands?

So what are you going to plan for your holiday next year, Caribbean holidays also come in that crucial cruise mix as well, where as St Lucia holidays and Barbados holidays are great, especially for those that just want to sun!

Even if you are not a surfer yourself you can’t fail to have noticed that surfer fashion has become the standard in modern beach wear. Board shorts, hoodies, flip flops and sandals are everywhere you look in the high street clothing stores.

Board shorts have become all the rage since they first hit the west coast of America in the 60’s. Earlier beach wear, for both men an women, had not been particularly stylish or practical with little to choose from in speedos and all in one swimming costumes that came to your thighs. Board shorts quickly became popular for many reasons, firstly because they were practical beach wear and secondly because they were really funky and cool looking even to the point where even if you weren’t going to the beach you would wear them around town.

Board shorts were designed by two surfers who knew exactly what they wanted when it came to practical surf wear. They designed board shorts to be practical, hard wearing and stylish, everything that currently available shorts weren’t. For example, board shorts were designed to be light, even when wet, and they were made to be fast drying. They designed them to be easy to move around in so the shorts didn’t rub you when you were in the water or on your board. Ultimately they designed the perfect, practical pair of shorts.

Board shorts soon caught on. The cool prints, the stylish yet practical design and the hard-wearing materials used made them popular with everyone from Brad Pitt to surfers one on the beach. And this doesn’t stop at men either, Quicksilver picked up on the massive market of the female surfer and developed their own brand of board shorts designed especially for women, you may have heard of it, Roxy. Another immensely popular brand is Animal Clothing with some outstanding board short prints.

Beachwear and surfwear has fast become a huge industry and everyone from tiny tots to old grannies can be seen wearing colourful board shorts to the beach. Its quite amusing to think that very few of the people who wear board shorts will ever actually stand on a surfboard let alone go surfing.