A POSITIVE VIEW OF GLOBAL TRAVEL NEWS
Meanwhile, Holland America Wins Top Wine Honor
Holland America Line breaks the Coronavirus death march with new info about their award-winning wine program. Read More …
Coronavirus Crisis: Let’s Not Go Overboard
The Coronavirus is currently battering cruise lines on multiple fronts. Some thoughts before changing plans. Read More …
Virus Cases Urge: Do Not Board Cruise Ships
Coronavirus brings a never-before-seen element of uncertainty in an industry built on composure. Read More …
Travel Safety Concerns: Real Or Imagined?
One of the benefits of a cruise vacation is the safety factor; being able to see multiple destinations in the protected environment of your cruise ship. Without fail, cruise lines do not send ships to places where passengers would not Read More …
Cruise Lines Update Change/Cancellation Policy, Temporarily
Cruise lines are bending over backwards responding to the Coronavirus issue and booked traveler concerns about it. Becoming an industry standard rather quickly: the ability to cancel very close to sailing with little or no penalty. Today’s update: Oceania Cruise Read More …
Coronavirus Update: To Travel Or Not To Travel?
Earlier this week, we talked about how unlike Norovirus, Coronavirus comes from a wider virus group, supporting a correspondingly wide variety of diseases. That’s generally bad news for travelers, resulting in closed destinations, cancelled flights, redeployment of cruise ships and Read More …
An Updated Travel Protection Guide
Travel protection is one of the top three options offered by cruise lines, right along with prepaid gratuities and transfers to/from the ship. Travelers opt in or out for a number of common reasons; some good, others not-so-good. It’s a topic we Read More …
Windstar CX Policy Keeps Travel Dreams Alive
Windstar operates a fleet of six small yachts carrying from 148 to 342 guests on voyages around the world. Well, most of the time anyway. Like other cruise lines, Windstar has cancelled sailings (CX) to places in the world affected Read More …
Yes, Now You Can Fly In Space
Space Adventures, Inc. has entered into an agreement with SpaceX to fly private citizens to see planet Earth the way no one has since the Gemini program. The mission will be the first space tourism experience provided entirely with American Read More …