With pomp and plenty of elegant adjectives, the 750-passenger luxury cruise ship, Seven Seas Explorer, officially joined the Regent fleet this week in an impressive and regal naming ceremony in posh Monaco. The ship’s maiden voyage is July 20 from Monte Carlo.
French Country Waterways’ Nenuphar carries a maximum of 12 pasengers on a barge canal in Burgundy, France. (www.fcwl.com) Photo by David G. Molyneaux, TheTravelMavens.com When my wife and I boarded Crystal Cruises’ Crystal Symphony in Singapore last year, we asked the maître d’ to find us an interesting dining room table. He was a…
The Lower Danube is a highly rewarding river cruise, culturally revealing about what this part of Eastern Europe once was, and also a lesson to Westerners about its life today.
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A growing demand for bigger, grander suites Big, fancy, expensive suites, with butlers, are among the fastest growing accoutrements on cruise ships. Their size and number seem to increase with each new ship. Silversea's Silver Spirit, docked at Rhodes, has Grand Suites that measure about 1,400 square feet, bigger than many apartments (Photo by…
Impact tourism weeks on the new Fathom cruise line begin in April in the Dominican Republic. On alternate weeks, Fathom’s ship, the 700-passenger Adonia, cruises to Cuba.
For a Clevelander traveling the world, the celebrity status of NBA star LeBron James brings us instant recognition. In Israel, David Blatt always is in the same sentence.
Passengers will begin arriving Oct. 6 at Carnival Corp.’s new cruise port at Amber Cove on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. As many as 350,000 cruisers are expected within the next year, the first regularly scheduled vacationers from the sea in about three decades.