I have spent most of the past week discussing how you technically travel with Covid-19 in the world (It is easy!) and the changes that Seabourn has implemented onboard the Seabourn Ovation (They are all very good!), but I haven’t spent much time talking about what it is that those things are really supposed to

Before my boarding the Seabourn Ovation I had read from a few guests that preceded me that everything was just as it was before. I actually have seen many changes, but then again my perspective is a bit less emotional and a bit more analytical. A Preface – The Return to Normal As I write

With the confusion and uncertainty as to how the heck you travel with Covid-19 and the inconsistent requirements (along with a bit of missing logic and emotions clouding what science actually says), it was off to Athens to join the Seabourn Ovation. I found my journey to Athens to be, well, uneventful. Yes, I know you

I am heading to Athens, Greece to board the Seabourn Ovation for two weeks sailing Greece and Cyprus. Will it be smooth sailing or, ‘er um, an Odyssey? It is my first Seabourn experience since I disembarked the Seabourn Quest in Chile after my third amazing expedition to Antarctica.  The date was January 13, 2020…just

The details are now coming out on Explora Journeys – a new luxury cruise line with a new approach; one that is more akin to a Resort at Sea combined with Destination Immersion.   I am pleased to finally be able to share them with you! You may recall my “teaser” article last month: Explora Journeys: A

There is a tendency to compare a Windstar cruise on its power yachts (Star Breeze, Legend, and Pride) with a Seabourn cruise experience on the former Seabourn Spirit, Legend, and Pride. Don’t Do It!   Windstar is not Seabourn Cruise Line. Windstar is not Silversea Cruises or Regent Seven Seas Cruises or Crystal Cruises.  Heck, this Windstar can’t really be

Let me first address my heretofore glowing review.  I have always called it like I see it and this is how I see it.  As I have sailed on the Wind Surf, Star Pride, Star Legend, and twice on the Star Breeze, I have a pretty good idea of what the Windstar product was and

My impressions of Windstar’s Star Breeze (after three days) are:  Quiet, Energized, Friendly, Upscale, Familiar and Surprising. As I have often said, having learned it from being on this very ship at the beginning of my career in travel: “It is not about the hardware. It is about the software…the people.”  The Windstar officers, staff

It is great being back on a cruise ship…well, in this case, yacht!  Windstar’s Star Breeze with only 312 guests after her stretch and refit is truly more akin to a new yacht build rather than a refit. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. I did not expect it, but this is a homecoming

Part Deux? Yes!  It is the Windstar Star Breeze’s (former Seabourn Spirit’s) second Inaugural Cruise since being purchased by Windstar Cruises.  The first Inaugural Cruise was in May 2015, and was the first step in what I see as a very significant transformation of Windstar from a fun, super-casual, semi-sailing cruise on older ships to