So now this time is approaching us and we need to make a decision on our holidays for the next year. 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. However two heavyweight holidays are going to be going head to head this year, and its sure to be a massive sunny brawl.

Cruises have become a massive holiday experience, all across the world these exotic and rather large cruise ships are transporting people around in style. The cruise ships have always been a bit of a fad, when they first came out especially. The Cruise ship was a massive phenomenon but it was very expensive, and the price hasn't changed much. However now things are slightly different and now people from all walks of life have this opportunity. 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 all that anyone could need aboard them; including theatre shows and even a cinema, not to mention several restaurants and much more.

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. Let's use the Caribbean as this example for the Beach holiday, seeing as there is an abundant amount of beach. There are so many great beach areas in the Caribbean, the best probably in St Lucia, Barbados and Antigua not to mention Jamaica and Cuba. Cruise holidays are very expensive, and although Caribbean holidays are still not that cheap, they are no where near as expensive as Cruise holidays. 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!