About Yvonne and Angela
Angela Smith:
Welcome to our shared travel website, I look forward to assisting you with your travel plans.
I work to travel. With so many different destinations and experiences open and available to us all I believe nothing is impossible, a chance to get out there and experience different cultures and regions to enrich your life!
During my travels around the globe I have been lucky to have seen some wonderful and amazing places: New York City, London, Paris, South Pacific, Fiji and Hawaii, to name a few and I would love the opportunity to organise your travel to these great places or other places of your choosing.
I have travelled from a young age with my family in a caravan across Australia during school holidays, it's been a part of my life and there are still more places to discover.
So, wherever you want to go I can organise it for you by plane, cruise ship, train, car, ferry and even into space with Virgin Galactic.
I have a passion for cruising; I have 32 cruises under my belt with many different cruise lines and cruise ships. My favourite of all time must be sailing on the last QE2 Southampton to New York journey in 2008, a dream come true. Amazing old-world cruising on one the most famous ocean liners of all time, they don't make them like that anymore. Also, I was fortunate to be on the Balmoral, a Fred Olsen ship sailing across the North Atlantic on the unforgettable 100 Year anniversary of the ill-fated Titanic trip from Southampton to New York in April 2012.
My sailing experience has been on a variety of ships: Cunard, P&O Australia, P&O World Cruise Line, Princess, Royal Caribbean, Carnival, and Discovery ships in Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific waters.
I have attained the highest training accreditation certification of Commodore status with P&O/Princess and accreditation with the other shipping lines. I am a Master Cruise Consultant with CLIA, the Australasian Industry Association to which these cruise lines belong.
There are great benefits in being a member of MTA and running my own travel business. MTA are affiliated with Cruiseco, Virtuoso, Belmond Bellini Club, Virgin Galactic and ATAS.
You can email, call or meet for a coffee, whatever is most convenient for you – this is your holiday!
I am supported by our MTA Head Office Support team that provides me the safety of dealing with a fully Australian owned and operated family company that also offers big agency buying power.
Area of Speciality
My passion is cruising and having been on 32cruises with different cruise lines and ships I would love to offer my experience to you.
I have been lucky enough to also travel on The Ghan, Indian Pacific and The Great Southern (which commenced in December 2019). So if you like cruising or training why not combine these great adventures together either here in Australia or some other place in the World (eg Europe and America)
Yvonne Cadd:
I hope you find it easy to navigate and full of interesting ideas for your next holiday whether on land or sea or perhaps even into space with Virgin Galactic!
I've been a member of MTA for 12 years. It's been a great move as I can now get out from behind the traditional travel agency office desk and visit you, my client at a time and place that suits you, offering you a complete travel service. This service is backed up by our MTA Head Office Support team that provides me the safety of dealing with a fully Australian owned and operated family company that also offers big agency buying power.
Cruising:
I guess it was inevitable with my family travel pedigree, that I would become a cruising expert!
Whether it's cruising one of the 5 oceans of the world or River cruising there are a multitude of ships of all sizes and shapes to make your cruise holiday experience one to remember. But which ship to choose? I can assist you in finding the cruise ship and itinerary that best fits your cruise holiday dream.
My first sea voyage at the tender age of 20 months saw me taking to the high seas with my family on a voyage from Adelaide, South Australia to Southampton, England via the Cape of Good Hope and the Canary islands where I had my first taste of Expresso coffee – loved it and still do!
Fast forward 9 years and yes, we're back at the Southampton wharf again embarking on the Fairstar for our return voyage to Adelaide, South Australia via the Rock of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal.
What an experience for an 11 year old, an extra special welcome at Gibraltar, home of the ship's captain. Followed by the passage through the Suez Canal at a time when local traders shimmied up ropes thrown from the ship so that they could come on-board and set up an ‘impromptu market' on the deck to display and sell their wares to eager passengers.
To the present day where I have attained the highest training accreditation certification of Commodore status with P&O/Princess and accreditation with the other shipping lines. I am a Master Cruise Consultant with CLIA, the Australasian Industry Association to which the cruise lines belong and am listed in the Top 200 Agents in Australia on their website.
I have augmented this training by sailing experience on a variety of ships: P&O Australia, P&O World Cruise Line, Princess, Royal Caribbean, Carnival, Coral Princess and Discovery ships in Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific waters. Star Cruises ships in the Straits of Malacca and a Fred Olsen ship across the North Atlantic on the unforgettable 100 Year retracing of the ill-fated Titanic trip from Southampton to New York in April 2012.
Disability/Special needs Travellers:
My other passion is not so much a region but a particular interest and awareness of the special requirements of the traveller with a disability/special needs - Barrier Free Travel.
I can help you design a holiday itinerary, whether you are travelling alone, with family or friends, tailored to your interests and needs where the focus is on ability, not disability.
With my travel experience let me show you how you can access planes, trams, ships, cars and buses. Together with my industry contacts I spend time creating an itinerary that will make your dream holiday a reality as my current Special needs clients will attest.
Previous experience
Angela Smith: Hastwell Travel & Cruise and Galactic Travel
Yvonne Cadd: Travelscene American Express Agency.
Areas of specialty
Cruising and Rail Journeys
Cruising (Master Cruise Consultant CLIA), Barrier Free Disabled Travel.
