A cruise cured couple’s Covid-19 cabin fever, and no wonder – the stimulation of meeting new people on board improves your mental health, a study has shown


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For Charlotte Wilkinson, a British expatriate in her early 40s in Singapore, the Covid-19-induced lockdown was beginning to give her claustrophobia. “After nine months on the island we needed to escape,” she says. For her getaway, she booked a five-night “ cruise to nowhere ” aboard Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas for herself, her partner and friends over New Year 2021. Wilkinson runs her own brand consultancy, and has lived in Singapore for a decade; prior to that she lived in Hong Kong and Beijing for six years. “We’d never really have considered a cruise before, but it definitely...