Many people ask how CruisinUK came about, and how we got to where we are today. This section of the site will hopefully give you an insight into CUK past, present and future, and what we’re all about.

:: How we started ::

To find the origins of CruisinUK you need to go back to November 2000. At this time the cruise scene in the North West was just kicking off, cruises were getting bigger and bigger, and the Internet was a relatively new way of organising. The North West soon became the hot spot for cruises in the Northern half of England.

With that 2 young brothers took it upon themselves to organise a cruise, but they needed a name for people to recognise, for them to stand out with. And so CruisinUK was born. The cruise itself wasn’t the greatest of successes, but it was a start, and so we decided to carry CruisinUK on as a website.

Over the following few months we met the lads from another local website, MaxedMotors, at the local weekly meets. They gave us pointers and helped us get the first website up and running, and in February 2001 CruisinUK.com went live. To give us some publicity Mikey had a few hundred stickers made up with CruisinUK.com on them, and gave them out around Rochdale and at cruises, and we started taking pictures and putting reports on the website. Before we knew it everyone had CruisinUK url stickers on their car, we couldn’t get rid of them quick enough!

As the website grew over time we launched newer versions, as our design knowledge grew too, and we started reporting on the main shows as well. CUK became well known for its reports, and even the cruise organisers were inviting us to report on them! Over time the amount of people/cars that were associated with CUK had grown, and a ‘membership’ had developed, with people from all over the UK on the website.

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