Goldring Travel’s 2015 Culinary & Cultural (formerly Food & Wine) Cruise – Seabourn Quest – Part I (A Look Back and A Look Forward)

Goldring Travel June 11, 2015

Tonight I fly out to Copenhagen, Denmark to meet the Seabourn Quest for the 2015 Goldring Travel Cultural & Cuisine Cruise spending fourteen nights immersed in the beauty and rugged scenery of the Norwegian fjords while traveling above the Arctic Circle. Goldring Travel’s 2015 Cultural & Culinary CruiseSeabourn Quest –

How To Prove A Point About Frank Del Rio, Sr. and NCL’s Ridiculous Banning of Food To Drive Up Revenue: Blame The Passengers

Goldring Travel June 3, 2015

Last week I wrote an article, How Frank Del Rio, Sr. and the “New” Norwegian Cruise Line Abuse Their Passengers – IT IS ENOUGH and the reaction from both cruise passengers and industry insiders was essentially, “How could you say that, but we are glad you did!” Well today I

How Frank Del Rio, Sr. and the “New” Norwegian Cruise Line Abuse Their Passengers – IT IS ENOUGH

Goldring Travel May 27, 2015

Norwegian Cruise Lines has just announced that it ending it’s play at forcing its passengers to pay for room service if they want to eat anything in their staterooms. What is incredibly offensive to me is not that the play to boost onboard revenue was so blatantly obvious, but NCL

Windstar Cruises’ Star Breeze Inaugural Cruise – Part III – The Windstar Experience 2.0

Goldring Travel May 13, 2015

Having been on Windstar Cruises’ Wind Surf in the Caribbean and the Star Pride in the Black Sea I was really excited to see, as its guest, Windstar Cruises 2.0 on the Star Breeze’s five night Inaugural Cruise from Nice, France to Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy. My trip, however, did not

Hotwire.com Engages in Systemic Consumer Fraud…and Worse

Goldring Travel May 12, 2015

WARNING: Your Hotwire.com “reservation” is not – according to Hotwire.com – a reservation at all. It is nothing more than a gamble that you might get a car…or you might not…and it might actually be 19+ miles from airport location you booked it at. There is one thing that really gets

Windstar Cruises’ Star Breeze Inaugural Cruise – Part II – The Transformation of A Cruise Line

Goldring Travel May 12, 2015

I just returned from the Inaugural Cruise of the Windstar Star Breeze, which was quite enjoyable not only from the cruise product standpoint, but Windstar’s highlighting its new philosophies including smaller ports and longer stays. While I normally focus on the service, cuisine and ports as I experience them, in

Windstar Cruises’ Star Breeze Inaugural Cruise – Part I

Goldring Travel May 2, 2015

On Monday I will arrive in Nice, France for the Inaugural Celebration of the Windstar Breeze celebrating the Seabourn Spirit’s rebirth and transition to an upscale more relaxed yacht. Windstar Cruises’ Star Breeze and her beautiful lines…right before her highlight color was changed to Windstar Blue What I am most

Time for A Name Change!

Goldring Travel April 29, 2015

When I first started writing articles for this blog I spend about half of my time working as a lawyer in the superyacht industry and Seabourn had a tagline, “This is My Yacht” (and I sold a lot of Seabourn cruises). As a result I decided to call my blog

Luxury Cruising’s New Ships: Seabourn Encore versus Regent Seven Seas Explorer – Two Distinctly Different Concepts of Luxury. Which is Yours?

Goldring Travel April 29, 2015

Regent Seven Seas Cruises came out with its bold, brash, statement that its new Seven Seas Explorer being the most luxurious cruise ship ever built. And then… Seabourn Cruises came out with its announcement that its new Seabourn Encore will be an improvement on an already excellent luxury cruising product

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