Cruise passengers may meet chefs, learn cooking techniques, dine from fancy tasting menus, and, my favorite, follow a ship’s chef to market at ports around the world.
When the Queen Mary 2 made its way toward the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, beneath which we could see New York’s skyline peeking into the purple sunrise, half the ship’s passengers already were on deck. Queen Mary 2 nears the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge at 5:34 a.m., the New York skyline ahead (Photo by David G. Molyneaux, TheTravelMavens.com) Passengers…
Nearly a week, without possibilities for going ashore, seems a long time to cross the North Atlantic.But days on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 zip by, if you like a formal life.
Aboard Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 Queen Mary 2 sailed from Liverpool toward North America on July 4, exactly 175 years (and about 8 hours) after the first passenger voyage across the Atlantic by the line that became known as Cunard. Red Arrows of the Royal Air Force fly over Queen Mary 2 in Liverpool, England…
When the chairman of Viking River Cruises set out to build his first ocean-going ship, he followed the theme song of many an aging free-thinker: Torstein Hagen did it his way. Hagen’s new ship, the 930-passenger Viking Star, now is cruising to ports from Northern Europe to the Mediterranean Sea, following a May naming ceremony…
Reproductions from the amazing Bayeux Tapestry fill the stairwell walls of the new Viking Star cruise ship, which is no coincidence because the Norman Conquest was a great Viking victory.
Flakes fall and snow on the floor provides a bit of shock to your tootsies when you walk into the Snow Grotto on the new Viking Star, especially if you have just left the sauna or steam room.
The new 930-passenger Viking Star, now cruising on itineraries to Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, and in between, is one of the prettiest cruise ships you will see.
With two additional ships in the Mediterranean, expanding Windstar Cruises intends to be the leader of the world’s small cruise ship fleets.