About Us

Bolsover Cruise Club is officially the UK’s No.1 Cruise Agent. Unlike other high street travel agents we are exclusively a cruise only specialist, dealing only with premium cruise brands such as: P&O Cruises, Cunard Line, Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, Fred Olsen, Seabourn, Silversea, and Regent Seven Seas along with many others.

We are a completely independent agent and recognised within the UK cruise industry as market leader. Due to the fact we specialise in cruise only holidays, we ensure that Cruise Club Members are only provided with the best cruise deals, offers and discounts. We pride ourselves on our top quality customer service and expert in-depth knowledge of all major cruise lines. Our enviable title of ‘Top UK Independent Agent’ for P&O Cruises and Princess Cruises remains unbeaten for 25 consecutive years.

Join Bolsover Cruise Club and be sure you're receiving the best customer service, advice and recommendations on all types of cruise holiday. Enjoy the many advantages and benefits of becoming part of Britain’s best loved Cruise Club.

Our Heritage

Founded by A. L. Wilson - the late father of Derek Wilson - in the 1960's as a joint travel and estate agency, Bolsover Cruise Club quickly emerged as a thriving local travel agent, which serviced the needs of Bolsover and the surrounding villages. By the time the travel business had passed to partners Derek, Michael and Audrey Wilson, and Julie Straw, in the late 1970's, it was already developing into the region's most prominent independent agent. Initial achievements centred on late offer type holidays; quite a conventional way to travel nowadays, but at that time a pioneering concept on which we were able to capitalise.

But this was not destined to be our last innovation. Indeed, its success merely paved the way for an even more radical step. Recognising the opportunities in the cruise market, we began to distance ourselves from the standard package holiday and, instead, rapidly gained a reputation as a leading name in the UK cruise industry. By the late 1980's, Bolsover Cruise Club had become the number one individual agent for P&O Cruises and Princess Cruises - our most prized accolades and positions that we've held proudly ever since.

The company expanded to support all major cruise lines during the early part of the 1990's, ultimately evolving into a 'cruise only' travel agent and necessitating the construction of 'The Cruise Centre' at Barlborough Links, three miles north of the original Bolsover site. The completion of that project, in October 1998, represented a pivotal moment in our history and marked the first purpose-built Cruise Reservation Centre of its type in the UK. Unprecedented levels of progress required two major extensions to the building in later years - but it eventually became clear that we had outgrown the first Cruise Centre and in March 2005, therefore, commenced an exciting new chapter in our story by moving into even larger premises.

In April 2006 Bolsover Cruise Club became a limited company with Directors Michael Wilson and Julie Straw, with founding partner Derek Wilson still actively involved now as a Business Development Consultant.