Based In Co Laois

Criona Buggie

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Thanks for visiting my webpage. The first thing you need to know about me is that I love cruising! I have vast experience in cruising and have sailed on all the main cruise lines.

I can offer you cruises that are focused on premium luxury which are suitable for honeymoons, cruises that are filled to the brim with family activities to keep kids of all ages busy and give you some peace by the pool, cruises that bring you on once in a life time expeditions. Cruise offers you so much more for your money and it is a seamless, amazing experience.

I have travelled and cruised to the most wonderful destinations during my 27 years in the travel industry including many Caribbean cruises & Mediterranean cruises and visited New York, Miami, Fort Lauderdale Chicago, Boston, Las Vegas, Jamaica, Bahamas, Barbados, St Thomas, St Maarten, Mexico, Bali, Thailand, Indonesia, Melbourne, Brisbane, Lapland and many more.

Another great advantage of cruising are the numerous city breaks I took in while at the start or the end of the cruise. As a Travel Counsellor my main objective is to always offer you a personal and professional one to one service. As I work from home my hours are more flexible than a nine to five agency and I can be contacted during the day, evenings, and weekends. I have access to extremely competitive prices, and you can be confident booking your holiday with me as Travel Counsellors is licensed and bonded in Ireland, so your money is safe.

If you are planning your next holiday or cruise and need some advice, please call or email me to discuss your options.

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My customer stories

Sent by V O'Connell

I have booked numerous holidays with Criona, from city breaks, summer holidays and cruises. I cannot recommend Criona strongly enough, she is a pleasure to deal with and makes your whole holiday experience fantastic. I have recommended her to family and friends and they have booked their holidays with her and found the whole experience excellent.

Sent by Muriel Kelly

We booked our family holiday through Criona and cant reccomend her enough. Everything was perfect. Great choice of hotels and activities for what you are looking for on holidays. We,ll be back to book next years. Tks Criona!!

My Blog

I absolutely live and breathe travel and I love to write about my experiences! Please take a look through my posts - you might find your own holiday inspiration.

Washington DC

17 October 2024

In November my family and I were returning from Miami, and we had decided to fly back to Dublin via Washington as this was the best value route we could find at the time. The flight to Washington came at the end of a two-week holiday and it would be the third day in a row that we had packed up and checked out of somewhere so I knew that the 6 hours we would have to wait for our connecting flight w

Las Vegas

17 October 2024

In June I travelled to Las Vegas with a group of others travel agents. We all knew about Vegas as an adult playground with 24-hour casinos, but this oasis city has been gaining a reputation as a great family holiday destination and we wanted to see what it had to offer. We had a really comfortable flight with Delta airlines from Dublin via New York and arrived in Vegas in the early evening. We we

Universal Orlando

17 October 2024

Do you love roller coasters, I do. That’s why I was so excited to visit Universal Parks Orlando in May with Aer Lingus and DSD. I stayed in Universal’s Cabana Bay a Universal Hotel inspired by classic Florida beach resorts of the 1950’s with retro inspired rooms, 2 massive pools, a lazy river and bowling alley. Cabana Bay is connected to Universal City Walk by shuttle buses that run all day and ev

Sun Princess

17 October 2024

As cruising continues to gain in popularity with the travelling public, the major cruise lines are building and launching new ships to attract their share of this growing market. Cruisers have come to have high expectations of these new ships and Princess Cruises certainly did not disappoint with the launch of Sun Princess, their latest ship, and the first in their entirely new Sphere Class. I wa

Eastern Caribbean Cruise

19 February 2020

In late October 2018 I went with a family group to spend a week doing an Eastern Caribbean Cruise on board Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Sea’s. Between us we would experience everything Royal Caribbean had to offer. Allure of the Seas is one of Royal Caribbean’s ‘Oasis Class’ ships making it one of the largest cruise ships in the world. Our cruise set sail from Port Canaveral, an easy transfer

Western Caribbean Cruise

19 February 2020

In late October 2019 I cruised around the Western Caribbean aboard Royal Caribbean’s ‘Oasis of the Seas’. This was a family and friends holiday so again I was travelling with a big crew. We flew to Fort Lauderdale from Shannon via Newark on the Friday before the cruise. The cruise was embarking on Sunday afternoon but I’m a big believer in giving yourself plenty of spare time when travelling to a

Paddy's Day in Prague

31 August 2017

This year along with some of my siblings and our other halves I decided to spend St. Patrick’s Day out of the country. We have a cousin working in an Irish pub in Prague so we took this as a sign that we should spend our Patrick’s Day there. We travelled there on the 15th for a 3-night break flying from Dublin. Arriving in Prague in the late afternoon we checked into the Hotel Yasmin just off Wenc

Cruising with the Family

08 August 2017

After years of debating I finally booked my first cruise and now I wonder what took me so long! Along with my husband and 2 daughters (16 and 12) we set sail from Southampton on the fantastic Royal Caribbean ship ‘Independence of The Sea’s’. From the moment, we arrived at Southampton port it was “plain sailing”, our bags were taken from us kerb side by the Royal Caribbean porters, allowing us t

New York, New York

08 August 2017

New York what an amazing experience and it just keeps getting better and better, I have visited New York several times mainly on girlie shopping trips (that’s a whole other blog) and breakaways with the hubby but this was the first time I brought my two girls (16yr and 12yr) along for the fun. We booked the 5-night holiday as a Christmas surprise for the girls travelling out from Dublin on th

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