Cruise lines normally shy away from mentioning “rocks” when talking about their ships and where they are sailing. Five water slides on Norwegian Breakaway (Photos by David G. Molyneaux, TheTravelMavens.com) But Norwegian, perhaps the most innovative of all the modern cruise companies, is not shy. And neither is the world’s newest cruise ship, the 4,028-passenger…
“Our passions here are food and shopping,” said my Singapore guide, Naseem. “I could eat all the time. We eat, eat, eat,” usually about five small meals a day, she said. I agreed to try. We began a morning with Ya Kun Kaya Toast, a traditional breakfast of grilled brown bread with a slab of…
Cruise passengers will love Singapore as a home port for ships. It’s a great location for getting over jetlag before your cruise. Infinity pool on the 57th floor atop the Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore (Photos by David G. Molyneaux, TheTravelMavens.com) Singapore, which began as a British trading post, is one of the world’s…
Singapore Good news for travelers: Singapore, a gateway to vacations in Southeast Asia, and one of my favorite home ports for boarding cruise ships, is anticipating an expanded fleet of big, modern vessels. They will be based at new and enhanced marinas, built here at a cost of half a billion dollars. Cargo ships anchored…
Cruise lines from mass-market to luxury increasingly are designing shorter voyages, both to introduce their ships to vacationers who have not been to sea and to provide getaways for busy world travelers who may have only a few leisure days to spare. Tea time in Palm Court on Crystal Serenity (Picture from Crystal Cruises)…
On its weekly winter cruises out of St. Maarten, the 310-passenger sailing ship, Wind Surf, often docks for a day at Les Saintes, a small island in the French West Indies, and at Roseau, Dominica. Boats bobbing near the dock on Les Saintes, French West Indies (Photos by David G. Molyneaux, TheTravelMavens.com)
The Caribbean islands that run like a loose, wiggly string from Puerto Rico southeast toward Grenada and Barbados, are situated perfectly for the meandering ways of a sailing ship. Most distances between island anchorages are relatively short, so hurry is not a factor, and there’s little need to put into the bustling ports where big…
Powered by a new owner, new leadership, and $18 million of renovation, Windstar Cruise’s three ships are sailing again with vim, vigor, a contemporary interior, and a batch of new sails that total the size of seven football fields. Wind Surf at anchor off Dominica in the Caribbean Windstar’s energetic president and CEO, Hans Birkholz,…
Through the years of renting cars in Florida, I’ve been all over the Internet. My expeditions have yielded dozens of cars from websites and rental companies, with varying degrees of success. Goal for my latest Florida car rental was hanging out with the pelicans in the Keys (Photo by David G. Molyneaux, TheTravelMavens.com) The cost…