Lets say that for arguments sake with the current maintenance schedule at Teddington Lock and if the pier at Hampton Court Landing Stage is not upgraded, if every country suspended their cruises for maintenance on non-tidal rivers with locks during winter months, then I would either have to travel to countries in the Southern Hemisphere such as Australia or New Zealand (where November/December is their summer) or to the tropics where it stays warm year-round.

We want festive cruises here, we don't want to go to AUSTRALIA!